Digital Vision
Tomorrow we will start a new year... 2008. What can we expect in 2008, digitally speaking? Oh I'm not going to go there, seems there are plenty of predictions for 2008 already published. Let's look way into the future, you know 2010.
I must conclude that 2007 was a great year for Linux, and is considered by some as Linux best year so far. Also in looking back on 2007, Windows Vista was released and without much willingness to accept it's new features, Vista is Microsoft's biggest flop since Microsoft Bob was released in March 1995.
OK back to year 2010, Microsoft currently plans to ship the next client version of Windows code named "Windows 7" in 2010. So let's take a look and see what's in the works. Microsoft is kinda tight lipped when it comes to "Windows 7", guess they're afraid Tux might get wind of this stuff. A new version of Windows Explorer is expected, most likely with a Ribbon user interface. To interact with this new Ribbon interface, you can expect touch screen features. As we dig a little deeper we can expect to find a self-contained kernel without a graphical user interface, with only a full-screen CLI and the Windows Touch Technology riding on top of the kernel.
Happy New Year
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Office 2007 SP1 FAILED
Microsoft has shipped Office 2007 Service Pack 1 as a automatic update. That's great... except installation FAILED on my wife's machine. Looks like Microsoft should have beta tested the installation process before releasing it early. Oh well, from the things I've been reading this will not affect too many machines, because the Office 2007 install base is so low. Not really sure what the problem was, but after a manual install, all is well. Now this is not the first Vista updates that have failed. A .NET update failed every day for a full month without alerting the user of a problem. One would expect all of Vista and Office updates to go without a hitch, considering the price one pays.
Now I'm not bragging... Oh well maybe a little. My Ubuntu updates have never failed, not to say they won't, but so far so good!
Microsoft has shipped Office 2007 Service Pack 1 as a automatic update. That's great... except installation FAILED on my wife's machine. Looks like Microsoft should have beta tested the installation process before releasing it early. Oh well, from the things I've been reading this will not affect too many machines, because the Office 2007 install base is so low. Not really sure what the problem was, but after a manual install, all is well. Now this is not the first Vista updates that have failed. A .NET update failed every day for a full month without alerting the user of a problem. One would expect all of Vista and Office updates to go without a hitch, considering the price one pays.
Now I'm not bragging... Oh well maybe a little. My Ubuntu updates have never failed, not to say they won't, but so far so good!
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