Office 2007 SP2 Coming this Month
Apr 14, 2009 Software
Microsoft has announced that Service Pack 2 for Office 2007 will be released this month. The update will be available via the Windows update tool and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) for corporate users.
Among the improvements SP2 will add is the ability to save as ODF (Open Document Format) and PDF.
WSUS Product Team Blog posted a blog post with a little information on Office 2007 SP2:
Service Pack 2 for the 2007 Office System will be made available in April. Service Pack 2 includes some significant work, including: built-in ability to save as ODF and PDF formats, improvements to Outlook’s performance and calendar reliability, significant bug fixes for charts in core Office applications, the ability for client service packs to be removed using an uninstall tool, and a host of customer-requested improvements to the Office Server products. It is also a rollup of all fixes that have previously been released for Office 2007 products.
[Via DailyTech]
Creating an Xbox 360 Avatar
Xbox Live’s Major Nelson has posted a new video which shows how we will create tiny little persons that will represent ourselves on Xbox Live. This will all be possible when the new dashboard update arrives this Fall
[Via Joystiq]
Bill Gates’ last day at Microsoft
Jun 27, 2008 General, Software
Today is the day that Microsoft’s chairman Bill Gates leaves the company after 33 years in control. Later today Gates will deliver a valedictory address to the company’s employees, all 90,000 of them. Employees around the world will watch via a webcast.
Bill Gates, who is 52 years old, is going to focus on giving away his $58bn fortune. Most of the money will probably go to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a charitable foundation founded by Bill and Melinda Gates in 2000.
[Via The Guardian]
The Microsoft team has changed
Jun 26, 2008 General
In 1978, when Microsoft was three years old, there were only 11 employees at the comany. These people got together and got their photo taken.
Thirty years after the picture was taken the team got back together and recreated the photo.
They sure have changed
[Via BBC NEWS]
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