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Well - some time has passed since my last post. But never the less, here is a new interesting solution, I came across my daily work:

The task is quite easy:
In a PowerPoint Presentation (Office 2007) there are a certain number of Designs and Layouts (see here for explanation). And there as well some other slides, which do not conform to any design or layout.
But all of them contain a footer in which a date (the actual year) is contained.

To enhance usability I want to program an Office 2007 Add-In with VSTO 3.0, which updates all the footers of a presentation when a button is clicked.

No big problem I thought. Until I came to the footer. It took me quite some time to find a solution for this problem, since I am a beginner in VB.NET.

Finally I found the post on the MSDN-Blogs about HeaderFooter (unknown member)", which was actually the error raised.

Well this is rare: As Golem.de has reported today in this post, Microsoft offers the book Visual Basic 2008 - Das Entwicklerbuch written by Klaus Löffelmann published under Microsoft Press free for download.

In the spirit of Christmas, as it seems, have they decided to give you, for a registration, the bonus and additional material, which includes the source code examples, for free.
The book itself (unfortunately for all English speaking readers in German) is available for free and without registration.

The fact, that Google is pushing its new Chrome OS into the market respectively it is only beginning to push it, is reason enough to think about the current and future situation of "traditional" operating systems.

TechCrunch has just published a comment from MG Siedler where he is talking about the squeezing of Microsoft

Basically this supports my thesis put in the earlier post about Windows 7

So we'll be excited about what the future (or Google) will bring us.

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Now it is done: Windows 7 has released officially on 22nd Octobre 2009 worldwide. I had the chance to work in advance with the new operating system and this is a good opportunity to draw a first conclusion. I have to remark, that I need to switch back (from OS X Snow Leopard) at work to Windows, since I need to provide my colleagues with some 1st level support. So here are my first impressions: