The News Review:
- Biblio File: Book on slide presentations has Chico connection
- The Curtain Falls n Windows Vista’s “SideShow”
- Microsoft’s Ultimate ffice Deal ffers Unprecedented Savings for …
- SmartDraw Helps Hospitals Document and Standardize Processes to …
- Software Survivors
- Is this Windows Mobile 7?
- Free IT / Computer Courses Announced by Eton Institute as its Next …
Biblio File: Book on slide presentations has Chico connection
Enterprise-Record
Seemingly enamored of each slide the speaker turns and reads it to the audience. ne slide features six main bullet points each with three sub-points and in the smallest of type a scattering of sub-sub-points. Another slide features a detailed spreadsheet and the final slide simply says “Questions?” As if to underscore the point the question-mark is pictured by the cheesiest of clip art mined from the bowels of Microsoft’s PowerPoint library. The first question one thinks of is “Why are you inflicting this on us?” The second question is: “What time is lunch?”The problem writes Nancy Duarte is not that slide presentations are evil but that they “all too often reflect the agenda of the presenter rather than build a connection with the audience. ” Rather than simply reading their slides presenters need to put in “the effort necessary to transform them into visual stories that support their message. She calls for a new “slide ideology” which she defines as “a meaningful relationship between you your slides and your audience.
The Curtain Falls n Windows Vista’s “SideShow”
Washington Post
Anything new is not going to excite in that crowd. Around the globe however linux IS making massive strides as corporate servers and in government offices. As more and more M$ products continue to disappoint (ever try opening a powerpoint made on a mac on a win machine? transparencies don’t work drag-and-dropped images don’t appear etc) and as more and more people look to open source to solve their problems (I’ve had penffice and Zoho open. doc files Word2004 2007 AND 2008 could not) M$ will continue to see market share erode. As to the topic at hand: I actually tried to find a slideshow equipped lappie for someone interested in an instant-on-ish machine and could not. While no MS-based machine is going to be quick-to-start slideshow promised quick access to enough features that I thought it’d meet my friend’s needs. They ended up buying a macbook (lovely unibody lozenge) because it comes back from sleep quickly enough to count as “instant on” in her book.
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Microsoft’s Ultimate ffice Deal ffers Unprecedented Savings for …
FXBusiness
“We commend Microsoft for its continuous efforts to empower diverse communities with the right tools for a bright future. ffice Ultimate 2007 provides students with a comprehensive set of tools that can help them create high-quality documents gather and consolidate lecture notes and other information stay organized find what they are looking for quickly and easily collaborate with colleagues and professors across geographies. ffice Ultimate 2007 includes the entire Microsoft ffice toolset and more that students are accustomed to working with including Microsoft ffice Word 2007 Microsoft ffice Excel 2007 Microsoft ffice PowerPoint 2007 Microsoft ffice utlook 2007 Microsoft ffice Access 2007 Microsoft ffice Publisher 2007 Microsoft ffice neNote 2007 Microsoft ffice Groove 2007 and Microsoft ffice InfoPath 2007. To be eligible for the Ultimate Steal Promotion students must be enrolled in a U. educational institution carry at least a 0. 5 course credit and have a valid school e-mail address.
SmartDraw Helps Hospitals Document and Standardize Processes to …
SYS-CN Media (press release)
?SmartDraw-created processes are easier to communicate to the surveyor easier to communicate to staff and easier for management to review for better decision making. ? SmartDraw. com customers using its software to document processes include among others: Brigham & Women?s Hospital Cleveland Clinic Johns Hopkins University Hospital Mayo Clinic Universal Health Care Services SmartDraw works seamlessly with Microsoft ffice allowing one-click export to MS PowerPoint® Word® Excel® and other applications making it easy to share graphics with others in plans reports and presentations.
Software Survivors
Technologizer
For years it was the flagship product of Software Publishing Corporation which was forced to run disclaimers explaining that the product had nothing to do with the university of the same name. What happened: Harvard Graphics was far better than PowerPoint for a long time. Little by little though PowerPoint narrowed the gap. In the 1990s being a only little better than a Microsoft application was a recipe for disaster–especially if your product was a stand-alone application that competed against one that was part of Microsoft ffice.
Is this Windows Mobile 7?
PhoneMag.com
10 years in IT development (noting as an Analyst not a ‘developer’) getting the guts of an application built is key before you stick a face on it. Unless of course you are making a pretty PowerPoint presentation. Nevertheless there often is just as many people working on the front-end as the back so to a certain degree the legitimacy of these images could be real. For example if UI development was being done by a different team at the same time as code-based developed within Uncle Bill’s Microsoft. My thoughts if anything would be more that these images are of a prototype of the application or interface not the final product. The layout and vibe of Windows Mobile 7 from the above is nothing like the honeycomb effect spotted for.
Free IT / Computer Courses Announced by Eton Institute as its Next …
Al-Bawaba
A series of IT courses will be conducted free of charge between 5th April to 19th April in key desktop applications such as Word PowerPoint Excel utlook and Access. The course is conducted by Microsoft certified trainers with over 20 years experience in teaching MCSE MCSA MCP and Adobe creative Suite like Photoshop Illustrator Dreamweaver and Flash. Eli Abi Rached Managing Director of Eton Institute commented: “At a time of recession key skills such as IT and languages come under the microscope and often employees with basic knowledge of these skills or a lack of it are first in line to lose their jobs.