I just finished up my order of the Microsoft Office System Beta 2 Kit 2003. All I had to do was pay for the shipping and I get a ton of stuff to play with and learn for the next few months. That will most definitely keep me busy, but it will also keep me learning and being challenged. I’ve got a feeling that if I’m still working at my current job this summer, I’m going to need a new challenge!
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Microsoft hits delay on Office 2003. Seems they’ll be releasing another beta update in June and pushing back the release date. I can’t help but think the extra testing will allow them to get more things right in the release, so that’s good. And it’s not like we were ready to upgrade and waiting for…
Just saw this tonight and thought it might be a good thing to make note of and check out later. Fred Langa’s writeup of his favorite freeware tools and all of the discussion going on in the related discussion area, where it seems lots of folks are listing their own favorite freebies. Follow these topics:…
This New York Times article (registration required) talks about the plans of the bigco’s to look at rolling out a nationwide network for WiFi access. Sounds like an interesting idea, but are there enough people ready and willing to pay for WiFi to make it profitable? While I think people should want it, I’m not…
Microsoft releases a second patch for IM and a work-around for the gopher vulnerability. -the first patch didn’t work the way it was supposed to. 🙂 Update: late Weds. afternoon they released four more fixes. An excellent interview with Stan Liebowitz about file sharing, piracy and DRM. He’s seeing what I’m seeing, there’s been no…
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AKA the great cleanup of 2006. I’ve always said that I wasn’t a good test subject to measure how effective any anti-trojan or spyware application is, so while I’ve kept a professional interest in the latest and greatest tools, I hadn’t been given a really good opportunity to try them out, until last week. A…