newtss going dormant

So, nothing since June 2010 huh?

As we emerge from the coldest UK winter in living memory into a new spring, this company goes offline at the end of March 2011

It’s always a hard decision when running a small company, and a job offer comes up – do I expand the company to cater for this, or take the job – do I have a choice?

I was going to update you on Microsoft Office 2010  a few months back – I’ve been using it since it came out.
My verdict – you get used to it …  it’s not obviously a big improvement from Office 2007, and  I still miss a few features from Office 2003 – like the ability to scan into a document in word – thanks for taking that out guys …

But no – not a big enough improvement to justify changing everything – and I still hate the way Outlook decides to freeze up occasionally – you get a message saying “Outlook has stopped responding” – usually when you need to send an urgent email.  I think three options are offered, of which only “restart the program” actually helps.

Office 2010 comes in 64bit and 32bit flavours, and at first you think its great to pioneer and run the 64bit version, but it seems most 3rd parties who write plug-ins for Outlook are very slow to produce 64bit versions for their code, so make sure you’re not going to need one of those first, before you take the plunge.

Having said that, I don’t dislike Office 2010 enough to consider the alternatives, so think it’s business dominance will continue for some time to come.

Apparently mac owners can get a shiny new Office 2011 from Microsoft.  Goodbye entourage, hello Outlook on the mac.  Apparently, Outlook 2011 doesn’t talk to an Exchange 2003 server.  Ho-hum – so much for backwards compatibility eh?

Now in my roundabout way, coming back to the main theme of the blog – Newtss Ltd is going dormant from the end of March.
May be back in the future – who knows – we live in uncertain times.

Thanks to my 3.5 readers for paying attention to these wise words

remember, its not kicking the computer that fixes it – it’s knowing where to kick …

oh – and if in doubt, turn it off, then back on again …