Solved: Can’t Drag Maximised Office Windows

This is a new feature that I discovered this by accident. After switching to Windows 7, I drag windows to the edge of screen to maximise or dock it, and then drag it off to go back to the previous window size.

But, I had this problem where that after maximising some windows like Office Word 2007 or Office Excel 2007, you can’t drag it out to restore it to the previous size! I think it must have something to do with Office doing funny business with window decorations…

Anyway, I just realised that this now works – after installing Office 2007 Service Pack 2. At least I think that’s what solved the problem. Anyone care to confirm?

Sydney Uni Students Gets New Outlook Live Email Service

Just received an email from the ICT guys at Sydney Uni – all students are getting a new email service! According to ICT Switch, the email service is going to be the new hosted services from Microsoft, called Outlook Live. It means that there’s finally a decent user interface to the university email, plus seamless Outlook integration!

This is great new, because unlike Hotmail (or Windows Live Mail), hosted Outlook services are Ad-Free! Or so I hope. Which means, we’ll be getting the best email services without the unnecessary advertising. Also, we’ll be able to keep the email address even after leaving uni, which is absolutely awesome. It’s a good thing that it means the uni doesn’t have to manage (and pay for) the mail services even for students whom have left.

The only issue is, I’d have to change my uni email address, and changing emails addresses is never fun. Thank goodness that I can keep this email address forever.

I tried to log onto my new email account today at https://www.outlook.com/, but it appears that it hasn’t been activated yet. Can’t wait until it kicks off on 6 May 09!

A copy of the email can be found after the break.

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Is that Windows Mobile 6.5 RC in the Wilds?

There’s been heated discussion over at PPCGeeks forums about a new Windows Mobile 6.5 Operating System core. Conflipper, a member of the forums posted yesterday:

6.5 official is out.

this will be the first officail new core.

21501 aku 6.5.70 core. memory contorl, and system response speed are improved and everything.

With Windows Mobile 6.5 launching a little early this year on May 11 [electronista] it makes good timing for an RC to be around.. and leaked!

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DreamSpark for High School Students Too!

Finally! More students can get the share of the good stuff offered by Microsoft. I’m writing an email to my high school computing teach as I write this post. More free software!

Source: Bill  Gate’s announces DreamSpark availability for High Schools

Internet Explorer 8 RC is out, but not for Windows 7?

While IE8 RC 1 is available to everyone in general, the people who are more likely to try out the latest and greatest software are locked out of it.

I was really excited when I heard that the first release candidate of the next generation Internet Explorer 8 is out, and I went ahead and downloaded it.

There were options to download it for Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 and 2008, in both x86 and x64 flavours. Hmm, it makes sense for them not to officially support Windows 7 before it is released. Thinking that the closest OS to windows 7 would be Vista, that’s the one I downloaded.

So here’s what the installer told me when I ran it “Internet Explorer 8 is not supported on this operating system”:

Hmm, interesting isn’t it? We dedicated guinea pigs of the newest Windows 7 didn’t even get a chance to update our IE8 to the latest! Arguably, we’re still ahead with the version number being 8.0.7000.0 even though that was from way back even before beta 2 came out…

Checking Windows Update didn’t help either – no updates for Windows 7 to download. Rather disappointing.