I’m not currently in the market for any Microsoft Certifications, I’ve got a number of litigation support tools, like Summation and Trial Director, to get certified on, but if you are, head’s up. George Starcher over at In the Trenches, has the info on a way to sign up for a second chance voucher, before…
Yesterday, I was writing about the bump in the road with using Open Office instead of MS Office on our pool laptops, namely, PowerPoint presentations. Today, my further research into that led me in some interesting directions. I started out getting a copy of the PowerPoint viewer. I know that not everyone has their presentation…
I wrote earlier about a grand experiment with Open Office that I’ve been trying. Today, the experiment kicked in to full gear with the arrival of our two laptops. After setting up one of them, including an install of Open Office 2.3, I only had a chance to open a couple of files and see…
Joe Wilcox does a good job of finding the FUD in Microsoft’s 10 reasons not to use Google Apps. I’d have to agree with him that Microsoft’s reasons are pretty dumb. One thing that does jump out at me though, is number 7: Enterprise companies have to constantly think about government regulations and standards?while Google…
You may recall a while back I talked about G.ho.st the online Virtual Machine project. I haven’t gone back to look at it again in some time, but I got an email from them today, and given the new features, I may have to take a look very soon: As part of our continuous efforts…
I didn’t even realize that Microsoft had disabled the ability to dock the quick launch bar on the right or left of the screen, forcing it to stay down with the taskbar. That is, I didn’t realize it until I just tried to move mine! Since I like to hide all the desktop icons and…