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Microsoft Replaces Works with Office 2010 Starter Edition

I was working on someone’s computer recently and came across Microsoft Works installed. I hadn’t seen it for awhile and honestly had forgotten it was still getting installed on systems from original equipment manufacturers (OEM).

The new version of the Office productivity suite will be available soon, although no final release date is yet available. When the new version is available versions of the suite will be replacing the Microsoft Works productivity applications that have been installed on people’s machines for years.

The new Starter version of Office will be coming to the forefront before the Office Web Apps that have been talked about in development to compete with Google Docs. Although it’s probably not a real substitute. A lighter version isn’t a web version. The web version may now become more of the feature set of Windows Mobile devices, which I’m not sure if that really makes sense either.

The delivery mechanism for Office 2010 will also be different for the OEM’s. Microsoft is saying the entire office suite will be installed on all machines. Consumers will be able to purchase cards at the retailer to upgrade to their desired version or not at all and remain with the Starter version of the software.

I’m not sure this is a good option. It seems ridiculous to have the entire productivity suite installed on a user’s machine if they’ll never use the majority of it.

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Microsoft Launches H1N1 Swine Flu Informational Website

I’m sitting here on the couch in my flannel lounge pants, t-shirt and covered in a nice warm quilt my grandmother made a long time ago. If you haven’t gotten the imagery yet, I’m not feeling good and am sick at home.

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My wife is already fearful that I’ve got the swine flu, the other white virus. I personally like to call it just feeling like crap and that my head may explode at any minute.

Microsoft has setup The H1N1 Response Center website to help me confirm that idea by teaching me more about the virus and whether or not my symptoms are worth getting worked up over and wasting a co-pay on at the doctor’s office.

“If current estimates are correct, many emergency departments across the nation could be overwhelmed by two groups of patients — those who have H1N1 and those who believe they have H1N1,” said Angela Gardner, M.D., FACEP, president of the American College of Emergency Physicians. “It is going to be essential that we use every tool and service at our disposal to contain this illness, and online H1N1 self-assessment tools, such as the one offered by Microsoft, can be helpful in providing people with ways to determine whether they should seek emergency care.”

The self-assessment took just a couple of minutes and has confirmed my own thoughts that I’m not suffering from the swine flu, I just feel like a big sow that’s been sitting on the couch all day trying not to move.

If you desire you can save your results in Microsoft’s Health Vault service. If not, you can just visit the Microsoft H1N1 Response Center website and see if you’re pig sick or just regular sick.

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Funny Typos, Misspellings, Bad Grammar and Engrish

I’m knot sure what it is about the weigh eye grew up, but I always seam too find and point out errors in spelling, typos and other slips of the English language. That is except win it’s my own writing sometimes.

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The FunnyTypos.com website provides a place to both collect and highlight some of the greatest examples of typos, misspellings, bad grammar and Engrish. Users submit photos and examples of these highlights of the English language and forever capture it on the web.

Like other similar sites that collect photos and images from the user community that all support a general theme, this serves as your warning. This site could become a waste of your time because I’m sure like me you’ll be clicking through page after page of examples.

You may be able to classify the time within your area of professional improvement and education, after all you’re learning what not-to-do right?

Uncover bad language at FunnyTypos.com