Well the corporate machine that is Microsoft has certainly been working hard lately, with all divisions seemingly under the pump to get products out the door. This means new software and updates for my main work machine, a Dell Inspiron 600m laptop. Allow me to try and recap what has been installed in the last month:

• Internet Explorer 7
• Microsoft Office 2007
• Onenote 2007
• MS Zune Theme (great funky new look to my Windows desktop)
• Windows Desktop Instant Search
• Windows Live Messenger (v8 something)
• And a spanking brand new @live.com email/passport

Although I've been playing with the Office 2007 beta, I never actually installed it on my work machine. I'm loving all the new productivity improvements and slick new interface, but what really got me is that it seemed to fix a bug with my Windows Task Bar icons. Pre-Office2007, only a few random icons would appear in my Taskbar. The other programs would still run but not appear. The only way to make them show was to force a restart of Explorer via Task Manager. But now after installing Office2007, they're all back! Impressive stuff =)

Also, for those of you who recall the hissy fit that Adobe threw about native save-to-PDF support in Office 2007, you can find the required add-ins here.

Looking forward to installing Vista on this machine once my post-grad exams are all over!