It looks like Microsoft will be releasing Office 2007 around the same time that it releases Windows Vista. January is the current target date for both launches which has caused quite a stir. When Vista's launch date changed to after the holiday season many analysts couldn't believe it. They started to wonder how Microsoft could miss such an important time in retail sales. Now Office
OpenOffice.org has proudly released version 2.0.3 to the public. You can download it now and enjoy the fruits of their labor with some wonderful new features and enhancements:
- performance improvements: for example, a 23 percent improvement in certain Calc benchmarks
- further improvements to file format compatibility with Microsoft Office files
Not many people realized this but Microsoft has limited the number of downloads for Vista Beta 2 and the limit has almost been reached. Here is what the Microsoft blogger had to say about it:
In case you weren't aware, we are only providing a limited number of copies of Windows Vista Beta 2--either download or physical copies--and we're fast approaching the cutoff
The people over at Wired have found a truly amazing image that gives you a close look at what we might see (literally) in the future. The Google Contact pictured above appears to have some sort of wireless mechanism to retrieve information like the weather. While such a tiny device seems impossible right now it may not be as far away as you think.
Nano
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 was just released and has several improvements. One improvement is that you can now have your RSS feeds automatically update themselves. While that is great I would have to say that the biggest addition is the ability to reorder the tabs! That is almost a necessity for tabbed Web browsing in my opinion. Here are the download links if you want
Netscape has now fully launched their Digg-like service in hopes of competing with Digg. This comes just days after Digg revamped their site to widen the categories and attract people that aren't so technology focused. Is Netscape going to overpower Digg by opening their service up to millions of people? I don't think so.
Some people don't like the fact that Netscape has editors that
Google has finally made their move and released Google Checkout for everyone to try. If you are getting ready to purchase something you may want to check this out first because they have a lot of stores giving $10 off of a $20 purchase! Hey, anything to save a little money right?
I haven't tried to purchase anything with it yet but I'm sure that