As frankps sees the world!

I as wrote earlier today on my blog, Microsoft was to release Office 2007 SP2 today. And so they did! The service pack delivers significant stability, performance and interoperability improvements for us endusers (more than 600 fixes and improvements). Two key additions include support for the Open Document formats (ODF 1.1) in Word (.odt), Excel (.ods), and Powerpoint (.odp) and the option to save as PDF in all applications. Other big enhancements are made for Microsoft Office Outlook, […] Continue reading →

Two weeks ago Microsoft put up a blog post informing users that Service Pack 2 for the 2007 Microsoft Office System was due to ship April 28th. If I am correct, that should be today. The service package is to have a focus interoperability, and therefor include support for Open Document Format (ODF), and better support for both XML Paper Specification (XPS) and Portable Document Format (PDF). There are tons of other improvements as well, but ODF support is the most important one for me. […] Continue reading →

I don’t have access to build of Windows 7 (7048) that Microsoft released last week. It is one of the last builds before they release the release candidate (RC). The best review that I have seen so far is again written by Ed Bott at ZDNet. […] Continue reading →

It’s two months since I got the first introduction to Windows 7 (code named Vienna) at Microsoft Tech-Ed 2008 in Barcelona, and this week Microsoft released a public beta of their next client operating system. I have installed it on my MacBook Pro, and plan to install it on an office machine in AD and on my home machine. I have been using Windows Vista for about 3 years now, through some of the betas and later with the released product. At the department where I am the sysadmin, more […] Continue reading →

I am not much a gamer, and not a singer either. But having said that, I must add that I simply love the karaoke game Lips for XBOX 360. I saw a commercial of the game, where they played Young Folks (by Peter, Bjorn & John) and I was sold. I just had to buy the game and it was released just in time for the holiday season. My sister and her boyfriend are SingStar champions, but now I can finally be at least an outsider. I can’t wait to compete against them. It’s a social game, […] Continue reading →