Office File Conversion Tool
The Office Migration Planning Manager tool is now final and up on the Microsoft download center:
This tool is pretty useful if you are an administrator sorting out a multi-phase approach to migrate users to Office 2007. It also includes the Offce File Conversion tool (OFC) that can do bulk conversions to the new Office file format.
Here's the Migration Planning Guide documentation:
More than anything the Guide helps raise questions that you will need to answer before you start migrating desktops to the new Office. It's worth doing, but it needs to be done in wisdom and in order!
Rock Thought for the Day:
Wow, I have purchased a ton of music in the past months. Where should I start? Well, it's probably worth mentioning that I broke down and bought "The Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance. I did not want to get the album as I became weary of screamo bands a long time ago- after about 3:46 into the first song I listened to by a band I no longer recall (thankfully). I listened to a few songs of MCR's last album, and it was more tinny clatter that I didn't enjoy. But, I heard the title track from this album on the radio, and I was definitely impressed. Everyone is talking about how much the song sounds like a Queen-influenced track, but I heard more there. I sensed that these guys were smarter than to just come out with an album with an obvious sonic debt to Queen.
Now that I have carefully listened to the album, I am glad to have it in my collection. It is rather smartly done- a full concept album under the guise of somewhat pop-friendly tunes with great guitar tone. That the album is hugely indebted to Pink Floyd's "The Wall" is not getting much attention, but it is clearly there. The opening track even contains the lyrics, "Come on you piggies..." accompanied by the anthemic, epic overture style that is the backdrop for Pink Floyd's colossal preamble.
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