Office 2010 in 2010
Well it’s official. Steve Balmer commented earlier this week that the next version of Office will not be available there year, but next.
“Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010, and Microsoft Project 2010 are scheduled to enter technical preview in the third quarter of 2009 and become available in the first half of 2010.”
– Troy @ TLC
Zero-Day Exploit Patch for PowerPoint
Tuesday Microsoft closed a critical PowerPoint hole that that has been under attack since last month, which seems to have been directed at corporate computers to gain access to data. It did not affect PowerPoint 2007, but the patch is for PowerPoint 2000, XP, 2003, 2007, the PowerPoint Viewer, Office Compatibility Pack and Works. No Mac patch yet.
How big a deal was this? It was only the fourth time in the past 4 years that Microsoft has released just one security bulletin. To patch your computer, Run Windows Update (or you can wait for it to be part of an upcoming Automatic Update).
– Troy @ TLC
Alternative to Bullets
Here is an example from a recent project that shows an alternative to a list of bulleted text. The overall presentation we images and key words only. This part of the script was a quick recap of these sound bites – to quick for visuals, but a bulleted list was not a good option because it was just not dynamic enough.
Here would be the ‘standard’ slide:
Here was my layout:
– Troy @ TLC
Using and Animating Vector Images (3)
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Using Vector Images (2)
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Using Vector Images (1)
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Backstage in San Diego
Just a quick picture of my backstage setup at a recent meeting – and one with me next to computers.
– Troy @ TLC