Cyndy Wessling shares with us in her blog some information about the Save as PDF feature that will be available in Office 12 applications. One of the key points to me is that it is a one-way feature only. Office 12 applications will not have the ability to open or edit an existing PDF file, [...]
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Thomas Hawk Shares Microsoft Thoughts from CES
Thomas Hawk shares his experience on Day 1 of CES: Overall Vista Media Center looks amazing. The design work is especially strong and aesthetically it is super pleasing. It was real buggy still because it’s beta of course but it looks really slick. I particularly liked the fact that in My Pictures in Media Center [...]
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Horn-a-gram
As always, my friend Ben is keeping me in the loop of interesting things on the ‘net. Don’t fret about the URL, it’s a safe site. Actually, if you challenged with porn, probably the best site you could visit today. Definitely visit, as Ben says “you really have to see it to believe it.” Exclusive [...]
Flight Sim X Screenshots
If you’re a fan of Microsoft’s Flight Simulator franchise, you can get your groove on with a load of screen shots from FSPlanet. I didn’t like the way the site loaded for me in Firefox, causing me to scroll left/right some, but good images are available. There’s also a list of FAQ’s too. Microsoft Flight [...]
Office 12 to integrate with MySAP
Looks like SAP will expand their integration with Microsoft Office in the Office 12 release. SAP is already integrated into the existing Office 2003 through MySAP. However the real “role-based user interface” will come with a future release and Office 12: The enterprise resource planning (ERP) giant needs to deepen functionality, however. “The current scope [...]
Focusing on Outlook 12
Okay, I don’t mean to intentionally focus on everything that Paul Thurrott is doing, but it just seems that with his business interests, he’s continually delivering new information related to Microsoft and Office 12. His recent article on Windows IT Pro focuses specifically on his experience thus far with Outlook 12. Some of the topics [...]
Coverage of Gates/Microsoft at CES
Without repeating everything they’ve stated, Engadget has some great coverage of Bill Gates keynote session at CES. Live coverage of Bill Gates CES keynote on Engadget Highlights of topics covered include: Convergence of applicaitons for business/personal use Windows Vista MTV partnership with URGE Windows Mobile TV Windows Media Center w/ Intel VIIV CableCARD support in [...]
Indianapolis Arts Discount Card
For anyone in the Indianapolis area and interested in the arts, check this out. The Arts Council of Indianapolis is now offering a discount card that gives you promotions like the following: Buy One Get One Free Philharmonic Orchestra of Indianapolis 2 for 1 Indianapolis Symphonic Choir $1 off President Benjamin Harrison Home $2 Off [...]