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                        Office 2010 Details Emerge by Paul Thurrott


                        by Paul Thurrott
                        Microsoft TechEd 2009 attendees--the few, the proud, 
and the H1N1 resistant--were among the first to get an early peek at the 
Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview, which is due in July. Based on a very 
early version of the Tech Preview code, here are a few of the changes that we 
can expect to see in Microsoft's next office productivity suite. 

                        First, and not surprisingly, it looks like all of the 
applications in the Office 2010 suite will adopt a new version of the ribbon UI 
that first debuted on some applications in Office 2007. This version of the 
ribbon drops the handful of color schemes that were previously offered and 
instead picks up the glass color that is specified by the user in Windows Vista 
or Windows 7. 

                        The Office Start button, which essentially launched a 
new-look File menu, is also gone in Office 2010. Instead, when you click the 
new Office Start button, you see a new interface listing File menu-like choices 
(Save, Save As, Open, Close, and so on), application-specific launch points 
(like new document types, forms, templates, and so on), and application 
options. Each application also adopts a unique color scheme based around the 
color of its icon. 

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                        May 2009 Reader Challenge by Kathy Ivens


                        by Kathy Ivens
                        A reader named Barney from Massachusetts wrote with the 
following complaint: "Before Vista, I opened the control panel apps I used 
often by using the name of the *.cpl file for the applet I needed in the Run 
command. Vista seems to have more control panel applets than previous versions 
of Windows, and the *.cpl names aren't available in the Help files. 

                        In fact, the Help files just contain a link to open 
these applets instead of telling you what the names are. There must be an 
easier way to get to the applets I view or change frequently via a command (I 
prefer to use the command line rather than create and use program shortcuts)." 

                        Going directly to Control Panel applets via commands in 
Windows Vista is indeed different. And, I agree with Barney about the way Help 
files work, not just with Control Panel applets, but with many system 
functions. 

                        I prefer Help files that tell me where to find 
something; the Vista "click this link and open the dialog" paradigm means I 
have to wait for Help to open and drill down to find that link every time I 
want to get to some hard-to-find function. 

                        However, the good news for command-line fans is that 
it's actually easier to use a command in Vista than in previous versions of 
Windows. As a certified command-line junkie, I use this method myself. What 
instructions did I send to Barney to open Control Panel applets via a command? 

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                        More Thoughts On Making Recycling High-Tech Easier 

                        by Mark Minasi 
                        Last month, I remarked that while I love being in the 
world of computers, networks, and high-tech in general, I'm often horrified at 
how much trash we generate and wonder if we can reduce that a bit. This month, 
let's consider that further. 

                        The first thing that I suggested was a box that you 
could plug a whole bunch of old hard drives into, resulting in a fault-tolerant 
way to make those unwanted drives into a useful and RAID-ed external storage 
box. My friend Pat Hirayama then dropped me a line to point me to a product 
called Drobo (www.drobo.com) that does something sort of like that for SATA 
drives, which is quite good news. They've got a couple of products, and the 
less-expensive one accommodates four SATA drives in any combination of drive 
sizes-they've got a nice page on their website that lets you drag 
differently-sized drives onto a Drobo and then shows you how much usable 
storage you'd end up with. The Drobo boxes connect via USB, FireWire or, on the 
$1,200 model, iSCSI. (Perhaps we'll see an eSATA interface on a future box, 
Drobo?) 

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