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The State of Readiness of Windows Vista and Office 12

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There’s an interesting piece over on Paul Thurrott’s blog today. Paul is Mr Supersite who specializes in Microsoft software.

He’s been testing both Windows Vista and Office 12 (2007?) for a while now, so what’s his take in the state of readiness of these products?

I’ve been using Office 12 on my main desktops and notebooks since late last year on a regular basis, and I’ve traveled with Office 12 three times so far. It’s fairly stable, but Outlook 12 suddenly coughed up a hairball last week and is now marking every word I type as a spelling error (using those squiggly red lines), thus making the spell check feature useless. And don’t get me started on Windows Vista: I’m working on a Vista book and I’ve had to reinstall Vista on just my main desktop three separate times this week. It’s a real time suck.

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Microsoft Offers Beta 2 Preview of IE7

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You can now download a Beta 2 “preview” of IE7 (Internet Explorer), now renamed Windows Internet Explorer.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/default.mspx

It’s a bit of a Firefox lookalike, and contains many new features, not least an RSS aggregator and tabbed browsing.

On my version, which took over IE6, the PageRank bar doesn’t seem to work, and Bloglines also won’t come up in the browser. Lots of things don’t work with it.

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