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Microsoft on Tuesday opened up the beta for its next generation of Office, posting links to download the application suite or to order a DVD containing the 2007 bundle.Previously in limited testing — participants in those programs only received their product keys Tuesday — Office 2007 is now available to the general public.
Chairman Bill [...]

I work as a consultant in a Windows-centric work-place and we remotely administer Windows servers. We trouble-shoot Windows clients. We keep spammers out of our Exchange servers. We defrag. We update. We install antivirus programs. We eliminate spyware. I suppose it would be fair to say that Microsoft keeps us in business. One day, [...]

Your nose is one powerful protrusion. Whether it’s a big honker or a little button, if it is working correctly you can sense a skunk from only 0.000,000,000,000,071 of an ounce of offensive spray.
Animals can trace even tinier trails. Male luna moths, for example, track females from 5 miles away.
Such nosiness is important for the [...]

ALZip is a powerful and user-friendly compression and archiving utility. It opens 35 file formats. ISO and BIN CD image formats can be opened as well as LCD virtual CD image files. Self-extracting files (SFX) can also be created with 1 of 4 cute icons, so anyone can open them without a ZIP utility. The [...]