The Microsoft Talk

At last I found some time from my busy schedule this month to write a post on my blog. Now I came to know How busy is a work of System Administrator. When there is work it is loads of work and when there is no work it is Nil work. In this post, I featured some of the latest from Microsoft. As the name indicates, the Microsoft talk. So, Lets know about some of the new releases and latest happennings in Microsoft.


Office 2008 for Apple Macintosh Computers

Microsoft has announced the date of its much awaited release of Office suite for Macintosh users. Office 2008 for Mac will be launched in mid Jan for US users and will be released in other markets during the first quarter.

This will be available at an estimated cost of $500 to $150 which includes the basic edition for $400 and the students or home edition for $150. The users who are presently using office 2004 can upgrade to 2008 with some extras.



Vista SP1 released

Finally Microsoft has released the first service pack of its new operating system i.e.. Windows Vista. However this service pack is in its beta phase and released last Monday to some of the private users and testers. The service pack is set to be officially released in the first quarter of next year. There are many of bugs which have been fixed with this service pack. Read more about this news at Brandon LeBlanc’s blog









The XP Factor


Microsoft has further increased the date to end the selling of Windows XP operating system. XP has stood on its way back of becoming the most successful operating system which Microsoft has ever manufactured after 98. Earlier in August, Microsoft announced a 2C release of its operating system XP. Nothing is new in this release except the new product key so that the company can keep selling the OS to its business partners till early 2009. A final decision will be taken in 2009 on the future of XP. There are no plans by Microsoft in near future to end this 6 year old operating system.