Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 in Stores This October, Plus Pricing, Editions, Free Upgrade Offer

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Microsoft has announced that Office for Mac 2011 will be available at the end of October, 2010. There will be mainly two different retail editions of Office 2011 for Mac available for purchase: Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 and Office for Mac Home and Business 2011. Additionally, there is a special edition for higher education students, staff and faculty: Office for Mac Academic Edition 2011.

Additionally, if you buy Office 2008 for Mac product from an authorized reseller between August 1, 2010, and November 30, 2010, you will be able to upgrade to Office 2011 for Mac, when it is available, free and at no additional cost through the Microsoft Office for Mac Technology Guarantee Program. [Read more...]

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Opera 10.60 Final Released, Recommended Upgrade

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Opera web browser fans should rejoice as Opera has released Opera 10.60, “faster than the fastest browser” recently. Opera 10.60 is based on the new version of Presto 2.6.30 rendering engine. It now includes support for several new HTML5 features, such as GeoLocation, Web Workers and Offline applications. It has also notably improved Javascript and DOM performance. The latest version also have thousands of bugs fixed since 10.54. Opera 10.60 is the first web browser that supports for the high quality video format WebM. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Browsers, News and Updates, Opera, Security

VLC Media Player 1.1.0 “The Luggage”: Features Plugins, Extensions, GPU Acceleration and More

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VLC Media Player is one of the best media player for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platform and its new avatar is even better. VLC Media Player is updated to version 1.1.0, adding many new features like extensions, new user interface, support for GPU acceleration among others. If you are still living under the rock and is unaware of what VLC Media Player is, well:

VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project. It is one of the most platform-independent media players available, with versions for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BeOS, and BSD.

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Filed Under: Audio/Video, Linux, News and Updates

VPS Hosting: If You Want to Upgrade from Shared Hosting What You Need to Know?

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My Technology Guide is steadily emerging as a popular website and we are getting a good amount of traffic from both search engines and other referring sites like StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit, Twitter, etc. When we started, we were new and had less traffic, good enough for a shared server that we are using. Even though the shared hosting plan that we are now on, can handle our current traffic but we are thinking about the future. Ultimately, one day we have to move to a more advanced plan. So, we went to the quest to find out what type of hosting will be suitable for us. We found that we are having two options, either move our website to a dedicated server or get a virtual private server (VPS in short) and host our website there. During our quest to find the ultimate suitable hosting plan for us, we found a lot of interesting facts and figures. [Read more...]

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Office 2010 Coming in June; Free Office 2007 To Office 2010 Upgrade Period Starts Today

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Microsoft Office 2010 will hit the retail shelves on June 15. At Technet, Microsoft announced that the free upgrade period starts today. This means that users who buy and activate Office 2007 from today will be able to download Office 2010 at no more cost when it becomes available in June 2010.

All you need to be eligible for this program — Office 2010 Technology Guarantee — is the following:

  • Purchase Office 2007, or a new PC with Office 2007, and activate it between March 5, 2010 and September 30, 2010.
  • Have, or create a Windows Live ID.
  • Redeem your Tech Guarantee before October 31, 2010 by visiting www.office.com/techg.

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Vista to Windows 7 Upgrade fails with error 0xc0000359 and reference to iastor.sys

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Microsoft has recently noted that Vista to Windows 7 upgrade process will fail and rolls back to Vista, if you are using a Intel Storage Driver iastor.sys. The following error message is generated:

\$windows.~bt\windows\system32\drivers\iastor.sys

Status: 0xc0000359
Windows failed to load because a critical system driver is missing or corrupt.

The main cause of this error message and failed upgrades is the incorrect versions of the iastor that are being referenced during the upgrade from Vista to Windows 7. [Read more...]

Filed Under: News and Updates, Troubleshoot, Vista, Windows, Windows 7