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• 7-Zip file archiver – a polished, quickly, and efficient file archiver. Supports the following formats, 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, MSI, WIM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS.
• Infra Recorder – User-friendly and lean recorder suite for CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray. Supports also creation of music CDs from MP3 files directly.
• VLC Player – The best and most user-friendly film and video player. Simply a must have.
• Launchy – A so called key-stroke launcher. Makes it smart and easy to start programs in Windows just like Quicksilver does it for Mac and Gnome Do for Gnome under Linux.
• Paint.NET – Good, polished, and fast photo processing and editing program. Smarter and more user friendly than Adobe Photoshop
• PDFCreator – Easy and quick program to create PDF files. PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer in Wor d, StarCalc or any other Windows application.
• Notepad++ – Wonderful and quick editor for text and various programming languages.

• uTorrent – BitTorrent client used to download movies, software and music albums from the peer to peer net. The stuff for download can often be found on thepiratebay.org or torrentz.com.

• Firefox – Quick and easy to use browser. A Must have on Windows 7.
• Picasa – Easy and simple program for managing and storing photos and photo albums.
• iTunes – super duper program managing music collections, it can handle tons of mp3 files
• VirtualBox – easy and fast virtual machine that can be used to test Linux distributions, and to install windows inside another windows – Fancy, fancy and quite usable.
• OpenOffice – complete office suite containing; Word processing, Spreadsheets, Presentation editor, Drawing, Database programs and etc. A must have, and it works better than Microsoft Office.
• Inkscape – Drawing program for drawing vector drawings (logos and such things).
• Scribus – Polished, user-friendly DTP program, used to create brochures, catalogs, reports, articles, etc.

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Microsoft Office 2007 is the most recent Windows version of the Microsoft Office system, Microsoft’s productivity suite. Formerly known as Office 12 in the initial stages of its beta cycle, it was released to volume license customers on November 30, 2006 and made available to retail customers on January 30, 2007.

New Features in Office 2007
Office 2007 contains a number of new features, the most notable of which is the entirely new graphical user interface called the Fluent User Interface (initially referred to as the Ribbon UI), replacing the menus and toolbars that have been the cornerstone of Office since its inception with a tabbed toolbar, known as the Ribbon. Office 2007 requires Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or 3, Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 or higher, or Windows Vista.

The ‘Ribbon User Interface’ is a task-orientated Graphical User Interface (GUI). It features a central menu button, widely known as the ‘Office Button’. The Ribbon Interface has been rumored to be introduced into Microsoft Office 14.

The new user interface (UI), officially known as Microsoft Office Fluent, has been implemented in the core Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and in the item inspector used to create or edit individual items in Outlook. These applications have been selected for the UI overhaul because they center around document authoring. The rest of the applications in the suite will also be upgraded to the new UI in subsequent versions. The default font used in this edition is Calibri. Original prototypes of the new user interface were revealed at MIX 2008 in Las Vegas.

Getting Wine Ready for Office 2007

Wine Configuration
The following guide is based on a clean configuration directory and running in a 1024×768 virtual desktop.


Wine version used:
wine-1.1.9
Windows version emulated:
Windows XP
Office version:
Microsoft Office 2007


Download and install the latest Wine available by following this guide.


$ winecfg


When the configuration dialog appears set the virtual desktop in the graphics tab and click OK.

Then download winetricks using wget:

$ wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks



sh winetricks msxml3 dotnet20 gdiplus riched20 riched30 vcrun2005sp1 allfonts


Installing Microsoft Office 2007
Office 2007 requires a libraries, which are not included in a plain Wine-installation. These libraries could be obtained from CrossOver Games, which is a derived version of Wine made to support games under Linux.

Download and install CrossOver Games either by hand or by using the official Ubuntu or Debian package.

After the install then

Copy rpcrt4.dll.so into Wine:

$ sudo cp /opt/cxgames/lib/wine/rpcrt4.dll.so .wine/drive_c/windows/system32/


Rename the native Wine-dll version:

$ sudo mv .wine/drive_c/windows/system32/rpcrt4.dll .wine/drive_c/windows/system32/rpcrt4.dll.bak


Rename CrossOver Games version into the original name:

$ sudo mv .wine/drive_c/windows/system32/rpcrt4.dll.so .wine/drive_c/windows/system32/rpcrt4.dll


Moreover you will need to rename msxml3.dll into *.bak too:

$ sudo mv .wine/drive_c/windows/system32/msxml3.dll .wine/drive_c/windows/system32/msxml3.dll.bak


After the renaming it is time to run winecfg again and set msxml3.dll and rpcrt4.dll to “native windows” select save and exit.

Now it is time to mount the Office 2007 cd media and start the actual Office 2007 installation.

$ sudo mount -o loop -o unhide Office-2007.iso /mnt


Now cd into the mounted directory

$ cd /mnt
$ wine setup.exe

Type the serial number and click install.

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Mange it-chefer står over for at skulle opgradere Microsoft Office-pakken, men burde de i stedet skifte til OpenOffice? Version2 sætter fokus på om OpenOffice er et realistisk alternativ til Microsoft Office. Hvad mener du? Vær med og deltag i debatten.

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Dropper Microsofts kontorpakke og scorer en million

Den danske grossist af autodele FTZ har droppet Microsofts Officepakke for 500 medarbejdere og høster over en million kroner i direkte besparelser.

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Microsoft Windows is collapsing under its own weight and radical changes are needed to change that according to Gartner.

Microsoft’s Windows juggernaut is collapsing as it tries to support 20 years of applications and becomes more complicated by the minute. Meanwhile, Windows has outgrown hardware and customers are pondering skipping Vista to wait for Windows 7. If Windows is going to remain relevant it will need radical changes.

That sobering outlook comes courtesy of Gartner analysts Michael Silver and Neil MacDonald. Half of a full room of IT managers and executives raised their hands when asked whether Microsoft needed to radically change its approach to Windows. “Windows is too monolithic,” says Silver.

News Stories on the issue
– Windows collapsing under its own weight; Radical change needed
– Gartner: Windows heavyweight champ, but no longer nimble
Well, Well – Finally somebody shed light on this issue.

Could he same thing be said about the recently ISO-approved standard OOXML, since it is very bloated too – especially compared to OpenDocument (odf).

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Brussels, 2 April 2008 — ISO members failed to disapprove the Open XML format. Microsoft has compromised the International Standards Organisation (ISO) during the rush to get a stamp for their Office OpenXML (OOXML), using unfair practices such as committee stuffing in several countries and political interventions of ministers in the standardization process.

Read more on noooxml.org.

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I’m a day to day OpenOffice user and I like OpenOffice, but over time I have stumbled over features, which was lacking – compared to Microsoft Office 2007. With the release of OpenOffice 3.0 in September a number of the features that I miss the most in my daily use of OpenOffice seems to get implemented and integrated. Here is my list features that OpenOffice lacks in comparison to Microsoft Office 2007.

1. Presenter Screen in Impress – Powerpoint has got a nifty and very user-friendly presenter view – as far as I can see, a presenter screen for Impress is in the works
2. Support for Office Open XML – seems to get integrated too
3. More polished UI – Calc seems to get a new theme for the 3.0 release
4. Performance – both in terms of speed and space – My experience: OpenOffice is slow, but it seems to get better and better
5. Native PDF-import – seems to be in the works

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