Free PDF and XPS Add in from Microsoft

2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS

Instructions

To install this download:

1. Download the file by clicking the Download button (above) and saving the file to your hard disk.
2. Double-click the SaveAsPDFandXPS.exe program file on your hard disk to start the Setup program.
3. Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation.

Instructions for use:

After you install this download open the document you want to publish and then, depending on the program you are using, select Save or Publish to PDF or XPS from the Office or File menu.

For more information, search Office Help for “Save a file in PDF format” or “Save a file in XPS format”.

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2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF

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Google Classic Plus and Microsoft: “classic plus”

The new feature that lets you add a background image to Google’s homepage has a name reminiscent of Microsoft: “classic plus”. When you click on the link to iGoogle, there’s an option to switch to the classic homepage. Now the classic homepage has an important feature that was only available in iGoogle: themes.

It will be interesting to see if Google adds more features from iGoogle to the “classic plus” homepage. Google could add some simplified gadgets that show if you have new messages in your Gmail inbox, new events in your Google Calendar agenda, gadgets for weather and news. Since Google only shows the search box and the two search buttons if you don’t move your mouse, the gadgets wouldn’t clutter the homepage.

Migrating from Microsoft Outlook® is now even easier for end-users with new Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Outlook® tool

Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Outlook® is a new end-user tool that moves email, calendar and contact data from Outlook® profiles, PST files and Exchange accounts to Google Apps.

With Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Outlook®, you can:
- Import mail, calendars, and personal contacts, either all at once or in separate stages
- Import only mail sent before or after a specific date
- Skip importing Junk E-mail and Deleted items
- Exclude specific mail folders from being imported (requires running the command-line utility)
- Monitor the progress of your migration
- Easily pause and resume the migration
- Run subsequent migrations that import only new data (not data that’s already been imported)

How to access what’s new:
- In the Google Apps control panel > Advanced Tools > User email uploads section, select the checkbox for ‘Allow users to upload mail using the Email Migration API’.
- Download the tool, install and migrate the data.

For more information:
Download page

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/05/introducing-google-apps-migration-for.html

Yahoo Mail Spam vs Gmail’s Spam Filter

Yahoo has recently quoted a study of the Fraunhofer Institute which concluded that Yahoo Mail and Hotmail have better spam filters than Gmail.

“The Fraunhofer Institute, an independent research firm, found that Yahoo! Mail users saw the least amount of spam out of the five providers tested, with nearly 40% less spam than Hotmail and 55% less spam than Gmail – meaning Gmail users in the study saw more than twice as much spam as Yahoo! Mail users.”

If the results are accurate, then either Gmail’s spam detection technology is no longer state of the art or Yahoo and Microsoft have dramatically improved their spam filters. Last time I checked, most of the messages from the inbox of my Hotmail account were spam.

John Mueller, from Google, says that Gmail’s spam filter is quite effective: “When I first got my Gmail account (it seems like such a long time ago), I purposely signed up to all kinds of mailing lists to try out the filter. It seemed like a fun idea — but then I noticed that I actually wanted to keep my Gmail account . About one spammy message comes through each month, but the most important part is that I haven’t lost anything that I was waiting for.”

I rarely get spam messages that aren’t flagged by Gmail, but the spam filter is not perfect. Sometimes Gmail flags legitimate messages as spam, so the algorithms are too aggressive.

What do you think? Is Gmail worse than Yahoo Mail or Hotmail when it comes to filtering spam?

Update: Here’s Fraunhofer’s press release with a link to the study. Unfortunately, it’s in German. (Thanks, Lazlo.)

Update 2: Apparently, the study was sponsored by Microsoft and Yahoo’s conclusions are misleading. The “prestigious” Fraunhofer Institute counted all the spam messages received by six users and Gmail users happened to receive more spam messages than Yahoo Mail and Hotmail users. The study admits that Yahoo Mail and Gmail detected correctly all the spam messages, while Hotmail couldn’t detect 23% of the messages.

Yahoo concluded that “independent empirical studies done by the prestigious Fraunhofer Institute show that Yahoo! Mail is #1 in blocking malware and spam from reaching mailboxes. It’s official. No one fights spam harder, smarter, or better than Yahoo! Mail.” But so is Gmail, according to Fraunhofer’s irrelevant study.

Gmail: The New Hotmail Challenges Gmail

Hotmail, Microsoft’s webmail service, has improved a lot in the past two years. Hotmail is now a modern web application that no longer traps users’s data and focuses on important things like speed, usability, fighting spam and integrating with other communication services.

The latest Hotmail update, that will be released as part of Windows Live Wave 4, tries to show that Microsoft finally managed to develop a better email service than Gmail and, in many ways, succeeds.

Hotmail improved its spam detection algorithms and it’s now able to tweak some parameters based on your actions. Hotmail can now flag messages as spam even after you’ve received them.

Another interesting improvement is that Hotmail categorizes messages, so you can quickly find the messages from your contacts, messages from mailing lists or notifications from social networks.

Hotmail no longer has limitations for email storage and the main reason is that large attachments can be stored in Windows Live SkyDrive. “With Hotmail, we’ve combined the simplicity of sending photos through email with the power of Windows Live SkyDrive so that you can send up to 200 photos, each up to 50 MB in size, all in a single email. You can send all your vacation photos at once without worrying about attachment limits,” explains Microsoft. This is an important feature that’s missing from Gmail and it’s surprising that you can’t upload photos to Picasa Web Albums or upload documents to Google Docs directly from Gmail.

Microsoft also integrated Hotmail with Office Web Apps, so that documents can be previewed and edited online, without having to install an office suite. Now that attachments are stored in a single place, the total attachment limit for a message is 10 GB, while Gmail offers about 7 GB of storage for all your messages.

Hotmail added many of the features that used to be available only in Gmail: conversation view, full session SSL, watching YouTube videos inline, but Microsoft managed to make some improvements. The active view feature doesn’t work only for YouTube, it’s enabled for many other sites (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn), so you can accept invitations or reply to a Twitter message directly from Hotmail. There’s also a feature that lets you create a single-use password for signing in on public computers.

Google has a lot to do to catch up with the new Hotmail, but that’s a good thing. Competition is what makes products better.

Flash Player on Mobile Phones – iPhone, Andriod ,Windows Mobile, Symbian, Palm and Google

Apple’s CEO wrote a thoughtful post about Adobe Flash and explained the reasons why Apple doesn’t intend to add support for Flash to the iPhone OS:

“Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.”

Steve Jobs says that Flash doesn’t perform well on mobile devices, it drains the battery and it’s not optimized for touch interfaces. Flash is also a way to create cross-platform applications, but Apple doesn’t want applications that look the same way on all mobile platforms and don’t take advantage of iPhone’s features. “We cannot be at the mercy of a third party” is the main reason why Steve Jobs doesn’t want to include Flash’s runtime. Flash’s main use today is to play videos, but web developers should start using the native video tag, which is already supported by most web browsers, including iPhone’s browser.

Apple’s refusal to support Flash in popular products like iPhone or iPad has an important side-effect: web developers will be forced to take advantage of HTML5 features like native video, canvas or create animations using SVG, instead of/in addition to using Adobe’s proprietary plug-in.

Unfortunately, users can’t access a lot of content on their mobile devices. There are many sites built using Flash and many popular sites use Flash to create animations, charts and other interactive content. Adobe is already working on Flash Player 10.1, the first version of the plug-in that will work on smartphones, if you don’t take into account Flash Lite. Flash will soon be available for Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Palm and Google will include the plug-in in Chrome and Chrome OS. Flash Player 10.1 for Android will be available as a public preview in May at Google I/O and the general release will be in June.

Google’s decision is pragmatic: even if HTML5 is the future, Flash is an important part of the web today. “[Sometimes being open] means not being militant about the things consumer are actually enjoying,” said Google’s Andy Rubin. Users will be able to choose if they want to enable Flash and Adobe will be pressured to deliver a better product.

Some might say that Android is actually the anti-iPhoneOS: it’s an open source operating system, it encourages competition and collaboration in the mobile space, it lets you replace built-in functionality, install applications from other sources than the Android Market and customize your device. Android is not “at the mercy of a third party”, but third parties can add a lot of value. Even if Android’s user experience is inferior to iPhone’s user experience, Android is an open platform that can be fully customized and a better catalyst for innovation. Android doesn’t strive for perfection, it’s a flexible platform that lets you transform a device into whatever you want it to be.

New Stuff on Bing– Sharing, Map Apps

Today at SES New York Bing shared with attendees its plans to begin testing some new Bing features as to start to move into the next wave of innovation which will be rolling out later this spring and summer.

Their Our focus remains consistent – they want Bing to be the best place to help you make better decisions. When they launched last June, one of the ways is to help customers get to better decisions was by providing a more visual, more intuitive, and more organized experience. This spring Bing will continue this evolution by making some changes to user experience and providing new experiences throughout search.

To start Bing wanted to focus on doing more to help users with the tasks they turn to search to help them with. The research showed that 42% of sessions require refinements, searching sessions are getting longer, and  see that many of those refinements happen when trying to complete common tasks. At launch, Bing introduced Quick Tabs in the Explore Pane (left rail) to give customers 1-click tools to help refine queries and help them go from question to decision. For example, when planning a trip, Quick Tabs anticipate the intent of the task a customer wants to accomplish and provide shortcuts for key planning activities such as weather, events, and maps. These quick tabs adapt based upon the user intent, and match the things you would expect when looking for a travel destination. The goal is to help you make a more informed decision with less time and effort.

This feature drove a lot of customer engagement, and was really popular with customers. But we are constantly looking for ways to make the experience even better. Jeff Henshaw, GPM of our user experience team put it well, “We have a vision for Bing to serve as a vital assistant to your online decision-making. In these latest designs, you’ll see a lighter, cleaner presentation of results that highlight key actions that will efficiently guide you toward your goal. Every day, Bing gets more intelligent about tasks that are important to people like you and me, so we continue to streamline and polish the Bing experience in ways that let you tap into that intelligence.” So over the next few months, we are going to test some new design concepts moving Quick Tabs functionality to the top of the page for 1-click access to our most robust, visual, and organized pages. We think this approach is a better way for Bing to anticipate user intent and adapt both the page and the results to help make faster, more informed decisions.

We’re also helping with everyday activities as well, such as staying up to date on news and information. One of the most interesting information sources we see on the web today is real-time data. But search for these real-time signals using traditional search is challenging, so we have been doing work with a bunch of partners like Twitter to bring that data into the search experience. Last October, we shared our www.bing.com/twitter experience, and this week, we will test new experiences for real-time results. For example, when you search for a publication such as the New York Times, Bing not only gives you quick access to specific sections of the destination website, but also provides the most popular shared links from that publication.

Another area in search that has been growing far more quickly as web search is the ability to get better local information by visualizing information on maps. We’ve been doing a bunch of work here to bring interesting experiences to customers on top of the mapping canvas with a relatively new feature called Map Apps. Map Apps enables Bing to bring relevant data from partners to this spatial search platform. Today we previewed a cool new map application, which brings real time data from foursquare into our Silverlight maps experience to give customers a real time sense of what’s going on as they plan activities in their own neighborhoods or while on the road.

The foursquare map app is a powerful combination of the spatial canvas that Bing Maps provides, combined with foursquare’s user reputation service ability to see who has unlocked specific badges, where and who has been crowned mayor of certain locations making it easier to explore any city in the world as if you were a local.  Let’s say you’re travelling to New York City for the week, but you don’t know what’s hot in Greenwich Village. Selecting the foursquare Map App in Bing Maps, and zooming into to Greenwich Village will get you tips that show you what locals are saying about the hot spots in that area. It’s like an interactive day planner, designed to help find the best things to do in that area. And if you have questions, you can always contact users through foursquare to get the inside scoop.

You’ll see some of this roll out as we begin our testing, and there is more to come as we move into the spring. We are at the beginning of this journey, and are excited to see what you think. Thanks for using Bing for all your decisions, and keep the feedback coming.

Todd Schwartz, Bing

Opera, Safari Beat Chrome On Google’s Own JavaScript Conformance Test

Back in June, Google launched Sputnik, a suite of tools that runs over 5,000 tests to check a web browser’s JavaScript conformance. Last week, they made the tool a lot easier for anyone to use, with a version that works in the web browser. The results are interesting.

Notably, both the Opera and Safari web browsers beat Google’s own Chrome browser in the test. As you can see in the picture above, Opera is the clear leader, with only 78 failures (the closer to the center, the less errors). Safari came in second with 159 errors, with Chrome in third with 218 errors. Firefox is close behind with 259 errors, while Internet Explorer is the outlier with 463 errors.

These tests were run on Windows machines, with the latest released version of each browser. Using the web tool on my Mac, though, shows similar results (at least for Opera, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox — there is no IE for Mac anymore).

While much of the focus on JavaScript is about speed (that’s what the SunSpider test measures, for example), Sputnik is interesting because it focuses on conformity, making it more like the Acid3 test, which tests web standards compliance. Chrome, Safari, and Opera have all passed Acid3, with Firefox getting very close (94/100 for Firefox 3.6). IE, meanwhile, again lags behind with just 20/100 for IE8. And even the new IE9 preview only scores 55/100.

Speaking of IE9, I tried to run the Sputnik tool in the preview build of the new browser on Windows 7. Unfortunately, it completely shut down several times after getting up to about 50 failures after only a few hundred of the 5,000+ tests — not a good sign. But again, it’s just a very early preview release of the browser, and early SunSpider results for the browser have been good.

Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange a New Plug-in

There’s no question that Google is setting its sights on taking some of Microsoft’s marketshare in the productivity suite space. Last year, Google announced a new plug-in that syncs Google’s enterprise versions of Apps, including Gmail, contacts, and calendar, with Microsoft’s Outlook. And Google just acquired Docverse, an application lets users collaborate directly on Microsoft Office documents. Today Google is taking another swipe at Microsoft with a new tool that makes it significantly easier to make the switch over to Google Apps from Microsoft Exchange.

Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange is a new server-side tool that migrates a company’s email, calendar and contact data from Microsoft Exchange, an email server software product from Microsoft, to Google Apps. Google promises ease with the tool, allowing IT administrators the ability to select the mail, calendar and contact data to move in phases and migrate hundreds of users at the same time. Plus, employees can use Exchange during the migration without any interruption. The tool works with Exchange 2033 and 2007 for both on-premise and hosted applications and is available to the enterprise and education versions of Google Apps.

This is clearly a play at showing businesses how simple it is to move from from Microsoft products, such as Exchange, that may not be hosted in the cloud to the cloud-based Google Apps product. Google product Manager Matt Glotzbach told me that the search giant wants to make it as simple as possible for potential customers to make the switch to Google Apps, and many potential Google Apps’ clients are using Microsoft Exchange to host and power email, calendar, and contacts. Google also launched Google Apps Migrator for Lotus Notes and a Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

Google Apps has steadily been growing; already 25 million people are using the Apps product. And that also includes over 2 million businesses ranging from startups, to small businesses, to Fortune 500 companies. And Google is developing a compelling ecosystem around Google Apps, recently launching the Google Apps Marketplace, which is an an app store for enterprise apps in the cloud.

by Leena Rao

Top 3 Browsers till Mar 2010 So far

According to StatCounter The Top three browsers this year are  IE8, Mozilla Firefox 3.5 and IE 7.0

According to Stats IE 8.0 stands in first place around the world with 23%

Firefox 3.5 stands in second place with 19.95% over world

and finally IE 7.0 stands in third place with19.24%

So, IE doing well these days, But Firefox 3.6 is picking up with around 5%

Even Many Users except US are still using the updated browser IE 6.0.

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