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Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2 Released

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office2k7Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2 is out. It is available via Windows Update as well as downloadable.

Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Microsoft Office 2010…contains new updates which improve security, performance, and stability. Additionally, the SP is a roll-up of all previously released updates.

Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2687455) 32-Bit Edition
Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2687455) 64-Bit Edition

Updates are also available for the Visio and PowerPoint viewers via Windows Update.

Tuesday Random Stuff

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space12345Random Tuesday morning news from around the web.

Ed Bott is at it again: The Metro hater’s guide to the Windows 8.1 Preview

Tom’s Hardware has tested 31 USB 3.0 Thumb Drives. Their “winner” is the SanDisk Extreme 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Model SDCZ80-064G-A75. A comment to the article led me to check out the Newegg reviews in which 45% gave this drive one star (as of this writing). Faster isn’t always better.

Wanna know what wi-fi would look like?

Do not mess with Kevin Rose’s dog!

New pics from NASA of the Earth from 898.414 million miles (1.445858 billion kilometers) away.

Acronis True Image 2014 Beta Invite

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ti2013_logo2Acronis True Image 2014 Beta Invite

What’s New?
– Disk backup to Acronis Cloud Back up your system or other partitions directly to the Cloud saving all data and partition structure.
– Bare metal system recovery from the Cloud When your system becomes unbootable or you change your hard drive, you can recover your system from Acronis Cloud using Bootable media.
– Incremental recovery from the Cloud When you recover a partition from the Cloud, data is recovered incrementally. It makes the operation very fast.