Dec 17
Some users have gotten the massive Office 2007 SP1 update automatically, even though Microsoft Corp. said it would not use Windows Automatic Updates (AU) to push out the large upgrade for several months, the company confirmed today. Anyone running a preview copy of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), which was made available to all comers only yesterday, will receive the Office 2007 upgrade automatically. Users of other in-beta Microsoft products, including Windows XP SP3, which is still in limited testing, will also be hit by the Office update, which weighs in at almost 220MB.
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Dec 17
Over the weekend my son Phil and I built a computer and a server for the test lab I use in my business (building computers is also a hobby we share). One of the machines was a Vista box, the other was a server which I’m testing the Windows Server 2008 RC-1 Hyper-V software that came out last Thursday. I’m sure I’ll be writing about the Hyper-V RC-1 software in several upcoming blog posts.
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Dec 16
The year 2007 was good for technology fans. Whether you were largely desktop bound or constantly on the go, this year’s technology products went some way towards making your life easier, more fun or more productive. But a few stood out - not necessarily because they broke new ground but because it was clear that their influence would be felt well into the future. Whether you own one of these products or not, it’s likely that their presence will have an impact on how you work or play in the year to come.
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Dec 15
Windows Vista contains so many quirks, unaccountable behaviors, and confounding features that it almost seems to have been designed to vex its users. Unfortunately, as most Vista users are already dealing with job demands, impending deadlines, and assorted miscellaneous interruptions, they have little patience left for operating system foibles. The situation tends to make them annoyed.
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