ActiveWin posted some information today that was made available on Microsoft Connect regarding the future availability of Office 2007 Beta 2. According to the information Microsoft will stop offering the downloads on October 25 as they prepare to send Office 2007 to the manufacturer to be chiseled onto CD's for its January release.

Here is some more information that was provided:

Update: The download links do not work anymore because Microsoft must have reached their download quota for Vista RC2.

Thanks to the anonymous commenter on our last post for finding out that Microsoft activated the download page and links for Windows Vista RC2 (which is build 5744). I just started downloading it and it is maxing out my 5Mbps connection...so the

Microsoft has just released Windows Vista to testers that have access to Microsoft Connect. Everyone is saying that the public release should be very soon so we just have to sit patiently twiddling our thumbs until Microsoft decides to share the goods with the rest of us. :)

The public download page was active the other day but they did not have the ISO

There has been all kinds of buzz around the Internet in the last 24-hours regarding acquisition rumors that Google is going after YouTube for the sum of $1.6 billion. From the sounds of it there is much more than speculation involved but the discussions are still in the very early stages and could end at any time.

I think Google is one of

Sage is one of the most  popular feed readers simply because it integrates directly into Firefox. It's not the most feature abundant feed reader but if you are looking for something simple to use and don't want the extra clutter of another program running then Sage will probably be perfect.

This Firefox extension hasn't had a update in over a year and I

FileZilla is my favorite FTP client and they just released the first beta of version 3. I was looking around to see if I could find a "What's New" list but I came up empty handed. Even when using the program it still seemed just about the same with minor changes here and there.

The one thing that was a little disappointing is that I have always setup

Wow, Mozilla has placed Firefox 2 RC2 into the releases folder on the FTP and the Release Candidate download page says that they will be posting the links at 3PM PDT. It looks like they are trying to recover some lost time from previous delays by shipping this as soon as possible.

Like always the drop-down menu below will generate the exact same link that