XMS vs PDF

As of late Microsoft keeps shutting down my fully legally purchased Office 2000 suite and when I go to their website . . . they now offer a 60 free trial upgrade of Office 2000.

First I had to abandon Firefox browser to get the download because only Internet Explorer was handshaking via Active X controls. Than I spent the entire day downloading the 700GB and plug ins.

Bottom line is that I could not create a simple PDF using all the firepower of Microsoft. Read more about the dumb Standards Wars at www.vidiots.us

 

Even if your copy of Office was illegal, it does not shut down. It just runs as limited capability mode, something most users likely do not even notice. So some problem is causing the software to close.

Call Microsoft PSS and resolve the issue.

As for PDF, Microsoft does not natively provide a conversion. You can ask Adobe why this is true. Consider installing this freeware Adobe Distiller equivalent: PDF Creator http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator

 

Microsoft XMS vs. Adobe PDF

My Office programs are fully paid for and licensed. The closure of Outlook (and I believe other Office 2000 programs) began very recently. When I send the "error report" to Microsoft I get the webpage saying that they only support security issues and pointing me to the Office 2007 upgrade, which already failed IMO.

If Microsoft actually does have no charge support for these shutdowns, I would love to know how to access it.

As to XMS vs. PDF, it is obvious to me that we have a clash of Titans here. If Adobe gives up the key to it's long held PDF empire to Microsoft, they could lose an important component in their well developed graphics business.

I think Microsoft and Adobe should sit down and come to accord on the integration of PDF and a number of other graphic formats, including Flash, before Microsoft releases Office 2007 or Vista. There is room for both in "The Age of Videography" and we all would benefit from such cooperation.

 

Microsoft has a entire suit of products that go head-to-head with Adobe in its core web designer business.

You can download trials and betas of released products here: http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/default.mspx

I do not think there will be much sitting around the table in the future.

As to PSS, mainstream support for Office 2000 ended in June of 2004. A support telephone call would be US$35, and would cover your entire incident. If the problem is related to malware, they likely will not charge you for the call at all.

See for information and other options: https://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-us&x=12&y=9&c1=505&prid=98530&gprid=36001

 

Web design is one subroutine of videography

Thanks Bill,
For acquainting me with the Microsoft Media products. I have already downloaded the trial and tested and, at first glance it looks great.

I'm sure you understand that the Adobe design portfolio goes WAY beyond just web design. It includes what is arguably the most complete videography toolset in existence.

The capabilities of Microsoft in OS, Office and server apps is uncontested. The capability of Adobe in print, web, video and audio editing, 3D animation, PDF document handling, graphic design, flash animation, and authoring for most bitmap and vector based applications is historic.

The iView media catalog is most impressive. I will probe around to see if a double click on any asset can direct the program to open up the desired image processor . . . like Photoshop. If that is so, than the product is a hit.

If it is not so. If the iView will only open a Microsoft image or movie editor, than I think Microsoft is going down the wrong track.

Do you seriously believe that the media products that Microsoft currently shows are competitive with Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Illustrator, Acrobat etc?

As to the crashing of Outlook, I suspect it is because it cannot cooperate with Skype, which scans it's Contact file to provide and extended data base of contacts. BTW Skype does not seem to work with IE7. It used to work with IE6. A pattern is emerging and I don't think a $35 phone MS tech call will fix it.

Bob Kiger
www.videographyblog.com

 

What Microsoft is currently showing is around 20% of what it will formally introduce over the next 12 months.

And having seen some of the stuff not yet released, I do believe they can give Adobe a fairly good run for it. More than this I cannot say being under NDA.

And put this into the context of Vista, with the WDM foundation, support for directx10, pixel shader 4.0, "Physics" chiplevel support, .etc and things then look very different. (a bad pun, sorry).

If you go to a Vista launch event on 1/30 or nearby days, see if someone is doing a demo of Flight Simulator for Vista. This mixes video and computer graphics in a way that will knock your socks off.