In addition to last year’s offering, Microsoft now give you the option to buy Visio and a Windows upgrade to Vista Ultimate.
By visiting www.theultimatesteal.co.uk, and confirming your identity as a student or member of staff with your university email address, you can purchase and download Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate Edition for only £38.95 – saving over 90%!
The offer is available from now until the end of June 2009.
Following on the heels of last week’s release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, Google has launched a beta of its own browser, called Chrome, for Windows. So far it looks like a very good first entry into the market and while there are issues with some types of multimedia content (the Silverlight site says it’s not compatible) and some sites don’t work because they don’t recognise the user agent string, it’s definitely worth a look.
Addendum: Check out the comments regarding the unusual install location. The way it’s installed means you can just move the Chrome folder and you’ve got a portable app! 🙂
I have to admit that I love Office 2007 – it has so many great new features that make it possible to make really great looking documents with minimal effort and no need to have any real design skills. However, it does drive me round the bend when I’m trying to work out how to do some very simple stuff; it is just so different from Office 2003. All these weird ribbon menus… where IS everything!? It even took me ages to work out that this:
is a menu button! I thought it was just a nice logo and was quite surprised when I clicked on it and it opened a whole new world of menus!
If, like me, you’re finding Office 2007 a tad confusing, help is at hand! Microsoft have provided a series of interactive guides here:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/HA102295841033.aspx
The guides provide an excellent way of quickly locating task buttons and menus in Office 2007, and will save many a headache for all experienced Office 2003 users who are grappling with the new Office technology! Try starting the Word interactive guide now and you’ll see what I mean. Once the Office 2003 environment starts up, click on File… Open… and then watch…