Microsoft Office 2010 system requirements: Changes in disk space, GPU recommendations
Microsoft Office 2010 system requirements: Changes in disk space, GPU recommendations
Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 11:48 am
Via a January 22 blog post, Microsoft is providing more details about the system requirements for its Office 2010 suite, due out by June 2010.
The bottom line: If your PC can run Office 2007, it will be able to run Office 2010. If you just acquired a brand new PC, it also will be able to run the forthcoming suite. But if you’re using Office 2003, there are no guarantees you’ll automatically be able to run Office 2010 on the same hardware.
The 32-bit version of Office 2010 will run on the following 32-bit operating systems: XP with Service Pack (SP)3, Vista SP1, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003 R2 (with MS XML). The 64-bit version will run on on 64-bit versions of all of these same operating systems, with the exception of Windows Server 2003 R2.
CPU and RAM requirements approximately doubled between Office 2003 and Office 2007, blogged Alex Dubec, a Program Manager on the Office Trustworthy Computing Performance team. The minimum system recommendations (for being able to perform average Office tasks relatively quickly) for Office 2003 specified a 233 MHz processor and 128 MB of RAM. For Office 2010, the suggested minimum requirements are a 500 MHz processor and 256 MB of RAM.
The disk-space requirements for Office 2010 are somewhat greater than for Office 2007 or Office 2003. Dubec noted that the footprint of most Office apps has gotten larger. As a result, “most standalone application disk-space requirements have gone up by 0.5 GB and the suites have increased by 1.0 or 1.5 GB,” he said.
“New features mean more code,” Dubec explained. The introduction of 64-bit Office, an Office-wide Ribbon implementation, inclusion of OneNote in more versions of the Office 2010 offerings, and the optional free trial versions of Pro 2010 apps in the retail boxed version of Office 2010 all add to the total disk space requirements.
In addition, Office 2010, unlike Office 2007, has a GPU requirement in order to speed up graphics rendering of charts in Excel or transitions in PowerPoint. Microsoft designed Office 2010 to assume a minimum Microsoft DirectX 9.0c compliant graphics processors with 64 MB video memory, which Dubec characterized as fairly minimal. He noted Office 2010 will still work on PCs without a standalone GPU like the one described.
Dubec offered more details in his post on the Office Engineering blog:
“One of the pieces of feedback we’ve received from customers is that they really, really hate having to buy new hardware every time a new version of Office is released. With that in mind, one of our goals for the Office 2010 was to make sure that the minimum hardware requirement would not increase from Office 2007. We invested in improving the customer experience on minimum-requirement hardware, and we regularly tested performance throughout the development cycle. Our footprint has gotten larger since Office 2007, but we’re proud to say that we’ve succeeded in keeping the CPU and RAM requirements the same as for Office 2007.”
Anything in the Office 2010 requirements details triggering any alarms (or relief)?
Microsoft Office is indeed a great software for the industry and step by step Microsoft is making it more effective, efficient and helpful for it users. This great improvement of MS Office will give its users less hustle with there hardware, for indeed changing hardware has great cost. It can also speed up the process of their users especially among companies, with such they would increase their efficiency. Lastly we can say good bye to the slow motion effects that are not suppose to be slow effects of power point and other MS office effects. Great job MS team keep up the good work.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5034&tag=nl.e019
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Carry your CULTURE, carry your HERITAGE, carry your FLAG. Be proud of being a JUAN, be proud of being a FILIPINO
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Space hotel says it’s on schedule to open in 2012
Space hotel says it’s on schedule to open in 2012
Reuters – Tuesday, November 3
By Stuart McDill
BARCELONA – A company behind plans to open the first hotel in space says it is on target to accept its first paying guests in 2012 despite critics questioning the investment and time frame for the multi-billion dollar project.
The Barcelona-based architects of The Galactic Suite Space Resort say it will cost 3 million euro for a three-night stay at the hotel, with this price including an eight-week training course on a tropical island.
During their stay, guests would see the sun rise 15 times a day and travel around the world every 80 minutes. They would wear velcro suits so they can crawl around their pod rooms by sticking themselves to the walls like Spiderman.
Galactic Suite Ltd’s CEO Xavier Claramunt, a former aerospace engineer, said the project will put his company at the forefront of an infant industry with a huge future ahead of it, and forecast space travel will become common in the future.
“It’s very normal to think that your children, possibly within 15 years, could spend a weekend in space,” he told Reuters Television.
A nascent space tourism industry is beginning to take shape with construction underway in New Mexico of Spaceport America, the world’s first facility built specifically for space-bound commercial customers and fee-paying passengers.
British tycoon Richard Branson’s space tours firm, Virgin Galactic, will use the facility to propel tourists into suborbital space at a cost of $200,000 a ride.
Galactic Suite Ltd, set up in 2007, hopes to start its project with a single pod in orbit 450 km above the earth, traveling at 30,000 km per hour, with the capacity to hold four guests and two astronaut-pilots.
It will take a day and a half to reach the pod – which Claramunt compared to a mountain retreat, with no staff to greet the traveler.
“When the passengers arrive in the rocket, they will join it for 3 days, rocket and capsule. With this we create in the tourist a confidence that he hasn’t been abandoned. After 3 days the passenger returns to the transport rocket and returns to earth,” he said.
More than 200 people have expressed an interest in traveling to the space hotel and at least 43 people have already reserved.
The numbers are similar for Virgin Galactic with 300 people already paid or signed up for the trip but unlike Branson, Galactic Suite say they will use Russian rockets to transport their guests into space from a spaceport to be built on an island in the Caribbean.
But critics have questioned the project, saying the time frame is unreasonable and also where the money is coming from to finance the project.
Claramunt said an anonymous billionaire space enthusiast has granted $3 billion to finance the project.
Everyone is indeed born as explorers. This earth has many things to give but for some who has already experienced it all and has nothing new to do any more, this is one way of killing that boredom. There are much more things out side our planet more than what is inside our planet we just have to know who to go there. Moreover, one need billions of money in order for one to do such and with the knowledge that it is about the space and how to go there based on years of studies still nothing is curtain about it and it is indeed a dangerous step. Indeed money can’t buy you everything and that money can’t buy you another lifetime to live. Going back to the selection indeed this is a great and new idea. This would revolutionize tourism in a new way and that this would broaden the ideas of the people moving it to new heights. I don’t know how and how long it takes to build these kinds of aircrafts but I surely would encourage the builders to continue these projects and hope that this project would be a great success. With this I end with a simple thought “The only limitation one has is one self. ” Good day everyone.
Source: http://ph.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20091103/tod-odd-us-hotel-a929486.html
“Tino” update Guam Visible Loop
Guam Visible Loop:
This is a great view of the Philippine and “Tino”
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“Tino” update from Igoogle.
Here’s a update about “Tino” from Igoogle Tropical Storm Plugin Image.
Source: http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/Tropical/Gif/nwp.latest.gif
“Tino” update from PAGASA
Issued At: 5:00 a.m., 03 November 2009 Valid Beginning: 5:00 a.m. today until 5:00 a.m. tomorrow
Predicted Mean Sea Level Pressure
Analysis for 8 a.m., 03 November 2009
Predicted Mean Sea Level Wind
Analysis for 8 a.m., 03 November 2009
Satellite Image
for 5 a.m., 03 November 2009
Synopsis: At 2:00 a.m., today, Tropical Depression “TINO” was estimated based on satellite and surface data at 150 kms East Northeast of Casiguran, Aurora (17.0°N, 123.5°E) with maximum winds of 55 kph near the center. It is forecast to move West Southwest at 11 kph.
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Forecast: The Eastern section of Central Luzon will experience rains and gusty winds. The rest of Central and Northern Luzon will have mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and isolated thunderstorms. The rest of the country will be partly cloudy to at times cloudy with isolated rainshowers or thundertorms. Moderate to strong winds blowing from the Northeast will prevail over Northern and Central Luzon and the coastal waters along these areas will be moderate to rough. Elsewhere, winds will be light to moderate coming from the Northeast with slight to moderate seas except during thunderstorms.
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Hope this update help those people who are of need of more information about the storm. Don’t forget to bring your umbrella.
11 areas under signal 1 as ‘Tino’ veers southwest to NLuzon
11 areas under signal 1 as ‘Tino’ veers southwest to NLuzon
GMANews.TV – Tuesday, November 3
(UPDATE 1- Nov. 3, 12:41 a.m.) Eleven areas in northern Luzon are now under Storm Signal No. 1 as tropical depression Tino made an unexpected turn to the southwest Monday evening, threatening anew the provinces of northern Luzon that have borne the brunt of cyclones Pepeng and Ramil in past weeks.
In its 11:00 p.m. Monday bulletin, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said Tino’s center as of 10:00 p.m. Monday was located 200 kms east of Tuguegarao.
Pagasa said Tino maintained its strength with maximum sustained winds of 55 kph as it moved west at 11 kph. If it continues on its present course, the tropical depression will cross the provinces of Isabela, Kalinga, Mountain Province and Ilocos Sur on Tuesday.
By Tuesday evening Tino is expected to be 90 kms east southeast of Vigan City.
In a radio interview over dzBB on Monday evening, Pagasa forecaster Manny Mendoza said a high-pressure area in mainland China could possibly push tropical depression Tino southward, but it could also be pulled northward by the tail-end of a cold front.
Mendoza also said that there was also the possibility of the cyclone becoming stationary if the high-pressure area in China interacted with the tail-end of the cold front.
To complicate matters, the Pagasa forecaster also mentioned still two other possibilities. First, that the cyclone gain strength because of the influence of a northeasterly wind flow, also known as amihan (northeast monsoon). And second, that the cyclone dissipate because of the onset of the cold season that will bring in a “dry and cold air mass.”
Asked which of these various possibilities had the highest likelihood, Mendoza said “based on their models” that Tino would most likely dissipate into a low-pressure area and merge into the tail-end of the cold front that will pull it northward.
Pagasa’s track of Tropical Depression ‘Tino’ as of Nov. 2, 8 p.m. Source: Pagasa website at http://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph
Meanwhile, storm signal No. 1 is now hoisted over the Batanes group, Cagayan (including Babuyan and Calayan islands), Apayao, Kalinga, Mt. Province, Ifugao, Isabela, Quirino, and Northern Aurora.
Pagasa continued to reminded residents in low-lying areas and near mountain slopes to take precautions against possible flashfloods and landslides. It added the rest of Northern Luzon will have occasional rains and gusty winds due to the surge of the northeast monsoon. – GMANews.TV
Another storm is coming and the people of the Philippines are going to be tested once again. It is indeed a great month for us for this would be the 6th if I am not mistaken storm that hit our country nonstop. Why is this happening? Indeed because of such storms many lives have been taken and many lives were greatly affected by it. Is this a test? What is this? So many questions so little time. Nothing is curtain, mainly the thought of why things are happening right now, thinking that we almost had many a billion life time to know. Many lives were taken because of it and still nothing. Why are things happening? For me things are happening for a reason. Reasons we cannot explain but always take in mind those things are indeed happening for a reason. Maybe the reason why these storms are continuously entering our territory is for us to know the vale of the environment that we always neglect to protect. Another thing is that maybe the reason why many lives were taken is for us to know the value of it. Maybe the reason why people got sick is for them to realize that they are loved. Many questions with formulated answers that may or may not meant to answer such but still formulate enough reasonability to answer such. Think of it this way maybe the wrong answers you thought are indeed the right answers after all. With this I end this blog and telling the people to have hope and never give up for indeed there are to many reasons why one should live.
Source: http://ph.news.yahoo.com/gma/20091102/tph-11-areas-under-signal-1-as-tino-veer-d6cd5cf.html
“Santi” update from PAGASA
Severe Weather Bulletin Number SEVEN
Tropical Cyclone Warning: Typhoon “SANTI” (MIRINAE)
Issued at 11:00 a.m., Friday, 30 October 2009
Typhoon “SANTI” continues to threaten Aurora-Quezon area. Location of Center:
(as of 10:00 a.m.)350 km East Northeast of Infanta, Quezon Coordinates: 15.2°N, 125.3°E Strength: Maximum sustained winds of 150 kph near the center
and gustiness of up to 185 kphMovement: West at 22 kph Forecast Positions/Outlook: Saturday morning:
70 kms West Northwest of Metro Manila or
in the vicinity of Zambales
Sunday morning:
600 kms West of Metro Manila or
over the South China Sea
Areas Having Public Storm Warning Signal PSWS # Luzon Visayas Mindanao Signal No. 4
( >185 kph winds)None None None Signal No.3
(100-185 kph winds)Northern Quezon
Polillo IslandsNone None Signal No. 2
(60-100 kph winds)Aurora
Quirino
Nueva Ecija
Bulacan
Tarlac
Zambales
Pampanga
Bataan
Rizal
Cavite
Laguna
Batangas
Lubang Is.
Rest of Quezon
Camarines Norte
Camarines Sur
Catanduanes
Metro ManilaNone None Signal No. 1
(30-60 kph winds)Isabela
Ifugao
Nueva Vizcaya
Benguet
La Union
Pangasinan
Albay
Burias Is.
Sorsogon
Marinduque
Oriental Mindoro
Occidental Mindoro
Calamian GroupNone None
Residents in low-lying areas and near mountain slopes under signals #3, #2 and #1 are advised to take all the necessary precautionary measures against flashfloods and landslides.
Those living along the coast in areas under signal #3 and #2 are advised to be on alert against storm surges and big waves generated by the typhoon.
The public and the disaster coordinating councils concerned are advised to take appropriate actions and watch for the next bulletin to be issued at 5 PM today.
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Please be ready and always tune in to the new. It was stated that the speed of the storm is very fast that it will only take a day never the less know what to do where to go and what to have preparation is indeed better then cute. Preparing is not required but indeed safety is closer when one is prepared and we all now we want to be safe at all times. Take care and pray for the safety of everyone else
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