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EIS had a very interesting meeting with Dell on Friday and I was fortunate to be present!
I have been given permission to blog (announce?) that Dell will be producing a Tablet PC called the Dell Tablet XT. It will be a clam shell design as opposed to a slate. As Kent has a very large user base of tablet PC's we welcome this announcement from Dell and look forward to evaluating it! We hope to see a pre-production model in July sometime and there is a tentative release date of September.
Specs will include 802.11n wireless, 5 hour battery life with a 10 hour extended battery (great for the classroom) and an innovative design that is only 1" thick and weighs about 1.5kg!
Dell also presented on the new AMD processors for desktop / notebook and servers. They are touting the new processors at very competitve prices so we will be taking a look at these in the next couple of weeks. One feature I particlary liked on the AMD desktop machines was the "no power consumption on idle."
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Microsoft have released the latest version of Virtual PC today for free!
http://www.microsoft.com:80/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx
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Microsoft have published how to extend the amount of time that Vista will ask to be activated. This is handy if you have recently installed Vista and wish to change hardware or for testing whether Vista will actually work with your current system.
The steps below will reset the grace period of activation by 30 days. This is know as a "rearm" and can be used upto 3 times.
- Open a command prompt as an administrator (right click run as administrator)
- In the Command Prompt, type: slmgr -rearm or sysprep /generalize
- Reboot
- Carry out this process when the Activation timer reaches 0 days.
The above will not work on Windows Vista Enterprise.
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We came across this the other day where Microsoft do not support using PST over a LAN / WAN. For example, you may have your PST on your home directory so you know it is backed up every night.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/297019/
It seems that the PST files are not designed to be accessed over a network and are therefore slow. Microsoft suggest using OST files.
Something to bare in mind...
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If you are deciding what version of Office 2007 to use, Microsoft have designed a handy picture to show what is included in the different versions.
We recommend schools understand the implications of moving to Office 2007. Capita are as of yet not recommending using SIMS with Office 2007 products. Another implication we have come across so far is Outlook 2007 being incompatible with Exchange Server 5.5.
Schools wishing to use the future instant messaging (IM) features of the Kent Learning Zone should choose Office 2007 Professional Plus or Enterprise, which includes Office Communicator 2007 to take advantage of our Live Communications Server.