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I have downloaded it I will be testing it as time goes on.

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So they now support the Maltese lira but not the Maltese falcon.

Seriously, this looks like a worthwhile advance.  Will install soon.

When is Microsoft going to allow easy printing of Envelopes directly from Outlook?  Seems like a no brainer that you should be able to do this from the source of your contact information instead of opening a new document in Word.

nice, cheers Paul, was wondering if this would be out soon.  Looks like the servers are getting a bit hit though, not the usual MS download speeds at the mo...

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"Seems like a no brainer that you should be able to do this from the source of your contact information instead of opening a new document in Word."

It would seem to make more sense to do that when typing up the document that goes in said letter.  At least, that's what Microsoft thought when they implemented the envelope labelling feature in Word's Mail Merge functionality.  You can import Outlook contacts into Mail Merge too, of course.

Any word on when this will hit WU servers?

@ Waethorn

90% of the time I am not writing a letter when I print an envelope.  I am usually mailing bills or some other item that is already printed out.

For example, I receive a bill from my garbage collector.  It is a simple "return this invoice with payment job".  If they have a change of address I must open Outlook, change their address, leave Outlook open (won't work with Outlook closed), open Word, go through the envelope dialog, the dialog opens a connector to Outlook to bring the address over to Word, then I print.  Now wouldn't this be a whole lot easier to just right click on a contact in Outlook and select "print envelope"?

Now available in Windows Update. It's the old 8-part Service Pack trick.  More accurately, one service pack (and for my Home and Student edition) 7 help module updates.  Probably more help updates for higher versions.  Incoming now here.

I don't know whether those who downloaded from the site got the help updates--one might want to check later.

The new system for adding file format conversions looks quite nice: an added format becomes a first class citizen, including the ability to be made the default for saving.

IE8 was also published to MU today.

Office SP2 is already on MU too.

Also available:  Sharepoint 3.0 SP2 (it's part of the Office family too though), as well as UR2 for SBS 2008.

And Microsoft Update has--as of yesterday evening--something for my particular Dell monitor model.  I think I'll read the description before installing that.

There's another one of those updates "for successful installation of future updates" on SBS too.  There could be others after that.

Having SP2 available now is extremely welcome here.

Now I can easily preinstall a boatload of updates as well as the PDF export plugin for Office in one step.  Office allows you to put MSP updates in the Updates folder in the installation source, and the base installer will automatically launch those updater files in silent mode at the end of the base install.  Preinstalling Office on systems can't be much easier.

Now if only they could do the same thing with Windows....

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sharepoint SP2 fixes problems with FF and Safari.

Pardon the off-topic post y'all but I just wanted to thank Waethorn for the info and links.

@Waethorn: Paul closed the other thread before I could respond (always happens to me). I had heard of Paint Shop Pro but not of Photomatrix. I think the latter is the way to go :-) The user gallery is nice!

Thanks again.

Sorry again for the off-topic post y'all.

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@techfan:

It's "Photomatix", like "_matics".

It's a nice program.  Paint Shop Pro has similar functionality, but it's not as centered on doing HDR stuff as Photomatix.  If you're shooting in RAW mode, you can get similar output to merged-exposure images.  It's almost the same.  You still need a program that will do 48-bit colour tone remapping to 24-bit though.  When you take a 48-bit colour RAW or merged-HDR image down to a standard 24-bit colour image, you're actually just compressing the colour range in different areas of the image to something that's more moderate and balanced.

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@Waethorn. I guess I had "The Matrix" in my head (though I've never seen the movie).

Wow. Thanks for the info. I'm actually on the market for a digital camera (something in the mid price range).

Miami (FL) has a great skyline and doing HDR shots of it would be cool.

Thanks again for the great info Waethorn!

"Now wouldn't this be a whole lot easier to just right click on a contact in Outlook and select "print envelope"?"

I agree it should be built into Outlook. I also think I should be able to write and print a letter to a contact from without Outlook.

There is this add-on, but it is not free (and no, I'm not affiliated with the company):

www.tools4contacts.com/home.html

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