Microsoft has made the Beta of Office 2010 available today, this comes after the release on TechNet and MSDN the other day.
Over on Neowin they have had a look at some of the new features, these include social networking integration and smart pasting options.
Download: http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/default.aspx
The 2nd Beta of the Office 2010 suite appeared on TechNet and MSDN last night.
Neowin.net is reporting that the public beta could be available this week after a tweet on the Office Twitter account, there is also a follow up post hints at possible social network integration in Outlook. This sounds interesting but I fail to see the point at present.
Those that have TechNet Plus and MSDN subscriptions feel free to download it now and have a play.
Below are a few screenshots
Word Excel PowerPoint
Bit late but here is the latest anyway. Following the experiment on PM which has received a great response from the listeners and a few suggestions. The format is here to stay.
On Friday Denis Nowlan, Network Manager of Radio 4 has announced that the new format is going to be rolled out for all of Radio 4’s weather bulletins.
This came into effect on Monday starting with the Today Programme and personally I quite like the new style. It’s allot more clearer and easier to understand. The “weather map” for the new style is posted in the previous blog post.
I’ve been an avid listener to Radio 4’s PM Programme for some time and they do take listeners views seriously.
The new weather style started after listeners commented that they don’t remember what the weather forecast was or what the weather is going to be due to the sometimes vague and general way it’s presented on the programme.
In this experiment the PM weather forecast will be presented in a “Shipping Forecast” style with distinct signposting and will follow a set order (weather permitting).
Below is the PM Programme Weather map that the presenters will follow. More information here.
Tom Warren of Neowin.net is reporting that thousands of passwords have been posted by an anonymous user of Pastebin.com on October 1st, a site commonly used to share source code. The accounts may have been collected by a phishing scam or had been hacked.
Though the details has since been removed the number of effected accounts totalled 10,027. The effected accounts started with the letters A and B but Neowin is advising users to change their passwords and security questions regardless.
Update: The phishing scam as it seems to be has now spread to Google’s GMail, AOL and Yahoo services. The number of effected accounts now totals around 20,000
At last the long awaited replacement for the discontinued Windows OneCare suite.
Microsoft Security Essentials is Microsoft’s free anti-virus and anti-spyware solution. It is aimed at home users and small businesses and will be available for Genuine Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 users and will be available in 32bit and 64bit editions for Vista and 7.
Below are the download links.
Weebl and Bob’s take on the Rock Band video game.
Over the next few weeks there will be an upgrade to the Windows Live messenger service and the upgrade will happen in two phases as detailed below.
The upgrade will include fixes as well as resolve a security vulnerabilities as detailed in Security Advisory 973882
Below is the timeline of the upgrade from the Windows Live Messenger blog
First Phase, Optional Upgrade:
The optional upgrade will happen in two stages:
Starting Aug. 25, customers using versions 8.1 or 8.5 were asked to upgrade their client.
Starting early Oct., all customers using versions 14.0 (but not the latest release 14.0.8089) will be asked to upgrade their client.
The upgrade at this time is optional. Customers who haven’t upgraded during the optional phase will be required to do so during the second phase.
Second Phase, Mandatory Upgrade:
The mandatory upgrade will happen in three stages:
Starting mid-Sept., all customers using Messenger 8.1 or 8.5 will be required to upgrade their version of Windows Live Messenger.
Starting late Oct., all customers using Messenger 14.0 will be required to upgrade their version of Windows Live Messenger.
To ensure that we are protecting customers, those who do not administer the upgrade will not be able to sign in to Messenger after this time.