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We have gotten a lot of questions about moving from windows XP to windows 7. First the bad news, you cannot perform an upgrade from XP to windows 7. You must do a clean isntall.
Now the good news, You must do a clean Install. Why is that good? Well when you upgrade, you also upgrade all your problems you have in XP. Anything slowing down XP would then slow down the new OS. By doing a clean install you will get the most speed out of the OS.
There is more good news. Microsoft makes it easy to trasfer all of your data and settings. This does NOT transfer programs (Again this can be a good thing), but it will make sure your new install of windows 7 has the same background and all your data.
Microsoft put together a great guide on how to upgarde your own computer. Be sure to print this guide out as you can’t use your computer if you are installing windows on it.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/help/upgrading-from-windows-xp-to-windows-7
Over 1 Million people have downloaded the Office 2010 beta, Have you?
I have been using the beta, and before then the Tech Preview version. I have been real happy with the new features, and the Ribbon in outlook is great. We had one PC at our last event that had it installed on it and people were spending a lot of time checking it out. So, you should check it out too!
Official Microsoft Site (Also where Download it)
www.microsoft.com/2010
Offical Blog for Office 2010
http://blogs.technet.com/office2010/default.aspx
Missed our Windows 7 Event? That’s ok all the things that were shown all came from other areas on the web. Below are some great links to videos, walkthroughs, etc to help you learn some of the cool things you can do with windows 7.
Thinking of putting Windows 7 on your network? Make sure your servers are updated to support Windows 7, also ask our staff about deploying windows 7, its easy to setup and can save you a lot of money in the long run in you plan to move most of your computers to windows 7 at some point in time.
Windows 7 Resources
TechNet Videos (Tips & Tricks)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd799317.aspx?ITPID=insider
Microsoft Windows 7 Website (Shows off a lot of the features)
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/what-is-windows-7.aspx
Here’s an interesting historical question – when we say Out of Office, why does it sometimes get shortened to ‘OOF’? Shouldn’t it be ‘OOO’?
Inside Microsoft, ‘OOF’ means not just the message which says you’re Out of Office, but it has grown to mean the act of being Out of the Office too – so you’ll get people putting sticky notes on their door saying ‘OOF Thurs & Fri’ or even people verbally saying things like, "Oh, Kevin’s OOF on vacation for the rest of the week’. I suppose that sounds better than "Oh, Kevin’s OOO on vacation …"
OOF was a command used in the days of Microsoft’s Xenix mail system, which set a user as ‘Out of Facility’ – ie Out of the Office. The usage of the term ‘OOF’ just stuck, as did the term ‘Little r’ (e.g. on an email sent to a distribution list, "Who wants to go to the cinema tonight? Little ‘r’ if you’re interested", meaning reply just to me) – as preserved in Outlook with CTRL+R for Reply, and CTRL+SHIFT+R (aka Big R) for Reply All.
Big Thanks to Ewan for clearing that up, I have always wondered what the deal was with OOF!
