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Absolute to Exhibit at National Education Computing Conference

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VANCOUVER, June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Absolute(R) Software Corporation (”Absolute” or the “Company”) (TSX: ABT), the leading provider of firmware-based, patented, computer Theft Recovery, Data Protection and Secure Asset Tracking (TM) solutions announced today that it will exhibit at the 2008 National Education Computing Conference (NECC) in San Antonio, Texas on June 30 - July 2.
Representatives from Absolute Software will be on hand at booth 7234 to discuss and demonstrate how schools can use Computrace to:
- Manage mobile computing assets
- Recover missing computers
- Prevent data breaches
- Comply with FERPA and other regulations
- Reduce costs associated with 1:1 Computing programs

Computrace from Absolute Software is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for post-theft computer recovery, remote data delete and off-the-network IT asset management backed by a Service Guarantee of up to $1,000. Absolute also offers Computrace LoJack(R) for Laptops, a theft recovery and data protection solution designed for home users such as students and teachers.
For more information about NECC, visit .
For more information on the complete range of Computrace solutions for schools and individuals, please visit or .
About Absolute Software
Absolute Software Corporation (TSX: ABT) is the leader in computer Theft Recovery, Data Protection and Secure Asset Tracking(TM) solutions. Absolute Software provides organizations and consumers with solutions in the areas of regulatory compliance, data protection and theft recovery. The Company’s Computrace(R) software is embedded in the BIOS of computers by global leaders, including Dell, Fujitsu, MPC, General Dynamics Itronix, HP, Lenovo, Motion, Panasonic and Toshiba, and the Company has reselling partnerships with these OEMs and others, including Apple. For more information about Absolute Software and Computrace, visit .
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements relate to, among other things, the expected performance of our services and products, possible guarantee payment eligibility, and other expectations, intentions and plans contained in this press release that are not historical fact. When used in this press release, the words “plan,”"expect,”"believe,” and similar expressions generally identify forward-looking statements. These statements reflect our current expectations. They are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, changes in technology and general market conditions. In light of the many risks and uncertainties you should understand that we cannot assure you that the forward-looking statements contained in this press release will be realized.
(C)2008 Absolute Software Corporation. All rights reserved. Computrace and Absolute are registered trademarks of Absolute Software Corporation. LoJack is a registered trademark of LoJack Corporation, used under license by Absolute Software Corp. LoJack Corporation is not responsible for any content herein. Computrace U.S. patents # 5,715,174, # 5,764,892, # 5,802,280, # 5,896,497, # 6,244,758, # 6,269,392, # 6,300,863, and # 6,507,914. Canadian patents # 2,284,806 and # 2,205,370. U.K. patents # EP793823 and # GB2338101. German patent # 695 125 34.6-08. Australian patent # 699045. The Toronto Stock Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved of the information contained in this news release.
Absolute Software Corporation

Microsoft Expands Datacenter Management Offerings With Advanced Heterogeneous and Virtualization Capabilities

LAS VEGAS, April 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Today, before an audience of more than 4,000 IT professionals and partners at the microsoft Management Summit (MMS) 2008, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Server and Tools Business at microsoft Corp., outlined the next phase in the company’s strategy to enable dynamic IT organizations. As part of this strategy, Muglia announced technology innovations that are designed to expand Microsoft’s virtualization capabilities and introduced its use of open source technologies and industry standards to broaden its ability to deliver automated management of heterogeneous IT environments.
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“At microsoft we are helping redefine what it means to do IT management in the enterprise with the new capabilities we are announcing today,” Muglia said. “By taking our knowledge of the Windows environment and expanding it to address heterogeneous management needs across platforms, applications, hardware and virtualization, we are opening up a new level of opportunity for companies to drive greater efficiency, responsiveness and value for their business.”
As IT environments grow more diverse and complex across desktops, datacenters, physical and virtual deployments, and heterogeneous infrastructures spanning Windows and non-Windows environments, microsoft has worked closely with customers to deliver a comprehensive enterprise strategy for an integrated management solution. The announcements today build on the strong, existing microsoft System Center presence in the datacenter with key additions in the areas of cross-platform, expanded interoperability and multivendor virtualization management solutions, which are further extended by the contributions of a strong and growing partner ecosystem.
Extending Cross-Platform Management for the Datacenter
Microsoft today announced the availability of a public beta for System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions, which build on the existing Operations Manager 2007 technology and capabilities and are designed to help customers extend the value of their microsoft System Center investments. Providing customers with a comprehensive management solution, this new end-to-end IT systems monitoring capability incorporates industry standards and proven open source technologies, including Web Services for Management (WS-Management) and OpenPegasus, extending the capabilities across both physical and virtualized Windows and non-Windows operating systems and applications. microsoft delivers the core foundational cross-platform support out of the box for HP-UX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Sun Solaris and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating systems so that partners can focus on adding their deep domain expertise in the form of management packs. Companies such as Novell Inc., Quest Software Inc. and Xandros Inc. have demonstrated their support by working to deliver monitoring abilities for applications made by organizations such as The Apache Software Foundation, MySQL AB and Oracle.
Further demonstrating support for its commitment to OpenPegasus, microsoft also announced today that it will be joining the OpenPegasus Steering Committee and contribute code back to the open source community under the microsoft Public License, an Open Source Initiative (OSI)-approved license.
“The System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions have already delivered exciting results for Xandros,” said Andreas Typaldos, CEO of Xandros. “They enabled us to cut our expected development time in half as we created our management packs for Apache and MySQL running on Linux and Solaris, resulting in quicker time to market and delivery of betas to our customers today. This new foundation from microsoft enabled us to focus on the development of high-level management functions for applications, with the knowledge that the Cross Platform Extensions were providing the necessary underlying interfaces to System Center Operations Manager, enabling heterogeneous management from a single location across customer environments.”
Microsoft also delivered a beta of the updated System Center Operations Manager 2007 Connectors, based on many of the same extensible open source technology and industry standards as the Cross Platform Extensions, which provide an integrated administrative experience and the ability to interoperate and exchange System Center monitoring data with third-party management offerings such as HP OpenView and IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console.
Single Pane of Glass for Managing Virtualized and Physical IT Assets
Also delivered today was the public beta of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (formerly code-named “Virtual Machine Manager vNext”), which enables customers to configure and deploy new virtual machines and to centrally manage their virtualized infrastructure, whether running on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 or VMware ESX Server.
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 tightly integrates with Operations Manager 2007 to deliver a new feature called Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO). Using deep knowledge of the IT environment including operating systems, applications and hardware, Operations Manager identifies opportunities for more efficient physical and virtual resource allocation and generates “PRO tips” within the Virtual Machine Manager console. Administrators can implement these PRO tips and dynamically optimize their datacenter based upon pre-defined policies and the real-time, changing demands of users. When used in conjunction with the broad System Center management suite, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 enables customers effectively to manage both their virtualized and physical servers and applications across their desktops and datacenters with a single set of consistent, compatible tools.
“Deploying, monitoring and managing applications across a heterogeneous IT infrastructure can present many challenges and complexities, all of which are compounded when consolidating servers, optimizing desktops and applications, or creating business continuity solutions using multiple virtualization solutions,” said Jerry Phillips, senior director of Systems Operations at Clear Channel Communications Inc. “Our experience with System Center solutions has demonstrated that microsoft not only recognizes our need to manage our Windows datacenter infrastructure, but also non-Windows and virtual servers from other vendors. Being able to do so through a single administrative console will provide improvements in productivity and reductions in our cost of IT operations, enabling us to improve overall organizational contributions.”
A number of partners, including Brocade, Dell, EMC Corp., Emulex Corp., HP, NetQOS, QLogic Corp. and Quest, announced they will deliver management packs enabled for PRO. These management packs enable partners and customers to integrate their domain-specific knowledge directly into Virtual Machine Manager and further integrate physical and virtual management.
“Dell’s focus is to simplify IT for our customers and drive complexity out of the datacenter, and virtualization is a key technology driving this effort,” said Laurie Tolson, vice president of systems management at Dell Product Group. “By working with industry leaders like microsoft on advances in systems management between Dell OpenManage and microsoft Hyper-V, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and Windows Server 2008, we’re able to bridge the gap between the physical and virtual management spaces, providing an optimized solution that helps our customers get the most out of their hardware and virtualization investments.”
“New ways to lower energy costs, reduce server sprawl and optimize datacenters are provided by the collaboration between HP and microsoft as virtualization goes mainstream,” said Scott Farrand, vice president of Industry Standard Server Software at HP. “Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager used alongside HP Insight software on HP ProLiant servers, and HP Server Automation software, allow customers to seamlessly manage physical and virtual environments. The combined solutions also allow customers to maximize availability, performance and flexibility of physical host servers, virtualized guest operating systems and workloads.”
Beta software of System Center Operation Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions, Connectors and Virtual Machine Manager 2008 were made available to attendees at the conference and can be downloaded at . Customers interested in finding more information on the System Center offerings or in evaluating them through trial offerings can visit and the System Center blog at .
Founded in 1975, microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

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Winner of $100,000 Microsoft Office Live Workspace Sweepstakes Selected

REDMOND, Wash., June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — The microsoft Office Live Workspace team presented David Austin with his $100,000 grand prize today, as part of the Office Live Workspace sweepstakes that kicked off when the service launched on March 3, 2008. Participants entered for a chance to win by signing up for their own Workspace, and earned up to two bonus entries for uploading their first document to their Office Live Workspace account and the first time they shared a document or Workspace with others. The winner could choose to use the grand prize to fund a favorite charity, an education or build a business.
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Austin, a Seattle-based graduate student in the Library and Information Science program at the University of Washington (UW), was introduced to Office Live Workspace during one of his courses at UW, where he was studying various collaborative solutions such as Office Live Workspace.
The access to documents from virtually anywhere that Office Live Workspace provided was an attractive feature for Austin.
“I was drawn to the portability and access to my documents, even when I didn’t have my laptop with me, so I signed up for it as soon as I heard about it,” Austin said. “I currently use Office Live Workspace to keep my work schedule and school papers — both Word and Excel files — in one safe place. I plan to use this service even more in my grad program next year as I work on projects that will require me to share and collaborate on microsoft Office documents with others.”
University of Washington Professor and His Students Collaborate Using Workspace
In another classroom at the University of Washington, Michael Eisenberg, professor of informatics, invited approximately 35 students in his INFO 300 class to use Office Live Workspace for a series of collaborative group projects and labs. The students worked together on assignments and presentations within their Workspaces and could share them with each other or Eisenberg via their individual or group Workspaces for feedback. The students and Eisenberg also collaborated on classwide documents such as a compilation of definitions and explanations of key emerging technologies.
“Office Live Workspace allows for highly secure access of documents and collaboration among my students, and between my students and me,” Eisenberg said. “The collaborative properties of Workspace are beneficial in that my students are working more efficiently — there’s no flooding of e-mail inboxes with multiple drafts of a common document, and when working on a project together they’re able to see other classmates’ changes to documents in real time.”
Eisenberg said this Live service also offers him some peace of mind: “My curriculum materials are in one very secure place — my Workspace,” Eisenberg said. “I’m confident that my syllabus won’t disappear or my draft of an exam isn’t on a USB drive somewhere. My students have shared similar feedback. To me, Office Live Workspace brings to life the key benefits of online cloud computing — anywhere access, collaboration and information security.”
How Will He Spend the Grand Prize?
Austin was selected randomly from a pool of hundreds of thousands of entries. Once the shock wears off, he plans to use the $100,000 toward funding his graduate education, and may put money toward a down payment on a house in the future.
In total, an assortment of more than 30,000 daily and weekly prizes were given away as part of the sweepstakes, including Xbox 360 Elite video game systems, Samsung Blackjack II Smartphone devices, 30GB Zune digital media players, Expedia hotel and package coupons, and microsoft Office Professional 2007.
Office Live Workspace is available at . People can contribute to the Office Live Workspace forum and provide feedback at .
Founded in 1975, microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Microsoft Corp.

Novell to Expand Linux Management Solutions

LAS VEGAS, April 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — microsoft Management Summit 2008 — Novell today announced it is working with microsoft Corp. to develop advanced Linux* management solutions that will allow customers to simplify the management of mixed IT environments. Building on their existing technical collaboration agreement, microsoft and Novell will work with industry standards and open source components to standardize management capabilities. The joint effort, which leverages Novell’s market-leading expertise in open source Linux management, is designed to maximize the value of a customer’s IT infrastructure investment.
“Customers today are looking for solutions that enable them to manage heterogeneous IT environments, and microsoft is pleased to extend our System Center suite to offer management for Linux distributions, like SUSE Linux Enterprise,” said Brad Anderson, general manager of the Management and Services Division at Microsoft. “Microsoft is both using and intending to contribute enhancements to the OpenPegasus Project’s Common Information Model Object Manager (CIMOM) and delivering to the open source community interoperable providers, which collect management data and make it accessible to management services.”
As part of the collaboration, Novell, with its expertise in Linux system management, will work with microsoft to enhance the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions, which microsoft announced today at the microsoft Management Summit 2008. This extension of microsoft System Center Operations Manager utilizes industry standards such as WS-Management and open source software to deliver Linux and UNIX* management. Leveraging its collaboration with Microsoft, industry standards and open source software, Novell intends to develop an advanced Linux management pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007. In addition, Novell plans to utilize the open source interoperable providers to extend the Linux management capabilities of its Novell(R) ZENworks(R) systems management products. These management solutions will allow SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise Server to be the best-managed Linux distribution.
“Novell has previously outlined in its Systems and Resource Management blueprint that it intends to support in its ZENworks solutions the use of open source and open standards to simplify and standardize systems management.” said Joe Wagner, senior vice president and general manager for Novell Systems and Resource Management. “By working together to extend Linux management for System Center Operations Manager, microsoft and Novell are building on this standards-based, open source foundation to provide superior management for mixed IT environments. The collaboration will give customers flexibility with a unique combination of heterogeneous IT management software.”
More information about the microsoft and Novell collaboration can be found at . For more information on systems and resource management from Novell, visit .
About Novell
Novell, Inc. delivers the best engineered, most interoperable Linux platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software that helps customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and risk. With our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. For more information, visit .
Novell, SUSE and ZENworks are registered trademarks of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other countries. *Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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YuMe Announces Agreement With Microsoft to Complement Video Ad Management Platform and Ad Sales for Excess Video Advertising Inventory

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 16 /PRNewswire/ — YuMe, the largest online video advertising network, today announced that it has been selected by microsoft Corp. to complement Microsoft’s existing video advertising services. Scheduled to begin this summer, YuMe will provide video advertising network management capabilities and sales for unsold inventory on Microsoft’s online properties.
“In working with YuMe, we will further maximize the value of our unsold video inventory through YuMe’s robust platform for video advertising network management,” said Rob Bennett, general manager, MSN Entertainment, Video & Sports, Microsoft. “YuMe offers the ability to connect additional ad networks to its platform, and we plan on utilizing this service to provide YuMe and other ad networks access to Microsoft’s unsold video inventory.”
YuMe will monetize Microsoft’s video advertising inventory by selling Microsoft’s excess video ad inventory as part of YuMe’s network of channels (News, Sports, Entertainment, etc.), allowing advertisers to purchase by audience and content genre.
“YuMe brings a best in class video advertising platform and sales team to microsoft to immediately monetize excess video inventory on microsoft properties,” said Jayant Kadambi, CEO and co-founder of YuMe. “Our selection by microsoft is testament to both our technology’s strength and our expertise in helping publishers best monetize their content and advertisers best reach their desired target audience.”
As part of the agreement microsoft will also utilize NetworkMe, a capability of YuMe’s advertising platform that allows publishers to aggregate all of their video content into one private ad network, providing a consolidated view of available inventory. With NetworkMe a publisher gains unprecedented inventory liquidity and the ability to maximize CPMs and fill-rates across multiple properties.
About YuMe
YuMe is the first dedicated video advertising network and ad management system built exclusively for the new world of Web video. With 400 websites, more than 150 million video streams, and 46.9 million unique visitors, the YuMe network provides both audience scale and quality reach for advertisers. The YuMe ad management system gives advertisers and publishers the unprecedented ability to identify, classify, and track content to ensure brand safety, contextual relevance, controlled syndication, and consistent delivery across all digital media platforms-Web, downloads, mobile, and IPTV. Key YuMe innovations include the first cross-platform ad solution and the ability to serve multiple ad formats and placements through a single, unified system. YuMe is a privately held company headquartered in Redwood City, CA and backed by Khosla Ventures, Accel Partners, BV Capital and DAG Ventures.
For more information, visit YuMe’s website at and the take2video blog at .
Product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.
YuMe

AVIcode Announces SQL Reporting Services Management Pack

BALTIMORE, April 30 /PRNewswire/ — AVIcode, Inc., a leading provider of real-time, always-on application monitoring solutions, today announced the AVIcode SQL Reporting Services Management Pack which monitors, detects and diagnoses problems affecting custom reports rendered by microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and provides data on custom report usage including trend analysis and correlation of usage with resource utilization, all within microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007.
“Organizations worldwide rely on SQL Server Reporting Services as a central, common reporting platform to derive and share critical business information,” said Victor Mushkatin, CTO at AVIcode. “Complete visibility into this environment is critical for ensuring timely access to accurate and valuable information to help drive well-informed business decisions.”
The AVIcode Reporting Services Management Pack enhances the capabilities of System Center Operations Manager 2007 by enabling monitoring for failures, performance degradations, connectivity and security issues in custom reports. When a problem within a custom report is detected, the AVIcode SQL Reporting Services Management Pack automatically classifies the error and provides a complete root cause analysis, including a reproducible test case, empowering organizations to quickly resolve problems and best ensure the availability and reliability of custom reports.
“System Center Operations Manager 2007 provides end-to-end service management, helping customers increase efficiency and achieve high control over their IT environment,” said Robert Reynolds, director of System Center product management at microsoft Corp. “Combined with System Center Operations Manager and the microsoft SQL Server 2005 Management Pack, the AVIcode Reporting Services Management Pack provides a richer solution for monitoring the SQL reporting environment and further improves efficiency, by enabling quicker resolution of issues.”
AVIcode SQL Reporting Services Management Pack provides automated discovery and configuring capabilities, including the ability to customize SLA performance thresholds for custom reports. It monitors for security and connectivity problems related to incorrect configuration of report data sources, networks and SQL Server. AVIcode provides real-time detection of report failures related to erroneous SQL statements and data inconsistency, and identification of performance bottlenecks related to long-running SQL queries. It also delivers extensive reporting on performance and availability over time, as well as trend analysis and correlation of custom report usage with server resource utilization.
The AVIcode Reporting Services Management Pack is available immediately. For more information, visit .
About AVIcode ()
AVIcode is the leading provider of .NET application monitoring solutions. AVIcode’s award-winning technology protects application development and management investments, and is recommended as a best practice by microsoft for .NET application monitoring. AVIcode’s flagship product, Intercept Studio, detects application problems in real-time throughout the application lifecycle — including security and connectivity issues, performance bottlenecks, and code failures — and delivers immediate root cause information to accelerate problem resolution. Organizations worldwide rely on AVIcode’s technology to get applications to market faster, reduce application maintenance and management costs, and ensure maximum application availability and reliability. For more information, contact AVIcode at 443.543.0030, email , or visit the company website at .
Product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.
AVIcode, Inc.

Trend Micro(TM) ScanMail(TM) for Microsoft(TM) Exchange Voted MSExchange.org Readers’ Choice Award Winner

CUPERTINO, Calif., April 30 /PRNewswire/ — Leading microsoft Exchange Server resource site, MSExchange.org, announced today that Trend Micro ScanMail for microsoft Exchange was selected the winner in the Exchange Server Anti Virus category of the MSExchange.org Readers’ Choice Awards.
“Our Readers’ Choice Awards give visitors to our site the opportunity to vote for the products they view as the very best in their respective category,” said Sean Buttigieg, MSExchange.org manager. “MSExchange.org users are specialists in their field who encounter various solutions for Exchange Server at the workplace. Their vote serves as a solid peer-to-peer recommendation of the winning product.”
MSExchange.org conducts regular polls to discover which product is preferred by Exchange administrators in a particular category of third party solutions for microsoft Exchange Server. The awards draw a huge response per category and are based entirely on the visitors’ votes. MSExchange.org users can submit their votes for the current Readers’ Award poll in the site’s left-hand bar.
About ScanMail for microsoft Exchange
This is the second consecutive year ScanMail for microsoft Exchange has been selected as the winner in the Exchange Anti Virus category of the MSExchange.org Readers’ Choice Awards. ScanMail for microsoft Exchange delivers superior mail server security with new protections against zero-day attacks, image spam, blended threats and spyware in addition to blocking viruses, spam, phishing, and unwanted content. ScanMail for microsoft Exchange delivers more effective, high-performance mail-server security-#1 in the mail-server antivirus market for 5 consecutive years.* Optimized for all versions of Exchange, ScanMail minimizes server impact and IT costs. Tighter integration with the microsoft platform and management tools helps streamline administration-for the lowest total cost of ownership. According to independent research firm, Osterman Research, Trend Micro’s mail server security saves the most time and money for businesses compared to other leading solutions.
* Source: IDC-Worldwide Anti-virus 2006-2009 Forecast and Analysis:
Antivirus Evolves from Product to Feature, Document #24567. Dec. 2005.

About MSExchange.org

MSExchange.org () is a microsoft Exchange Server 2007/2003/2000 resource site. It is the leading Exchange site, attracting over 350,000 Exchange administrators and specialists a month. The site provides the latest microsoft Exchange Server news, articles and tutorials by leading Exchange experts, message boards, software listings and product reviews.
MSExchange.org forms part of a group of sites run by TechGenix Ltd., including — a comprehensive Windows Networking resource site; , a microsoft ISA Server resource site; , a Windows security resource site and , a Server Based Computing resource site.
About Trend Micro
Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in Internet content security, focuses on securing the exchange of digital information for businesses and consumers. A pioneer and industry vanguard, Trend Micro is advancing integrated threat management technology to protect operational continuity, personal information, and property from malware, spam, data leaks and the newest Web threats. Its flexible solutions, available in multiple form factors, are supported 24/7 by threat intelligence experts around the globe. A transnational company, with headquarters in Tokyo, Trend Micro’s trusted security solutions are sold through its business partners worldwide. Please visit .
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Addintools Announces Release of Classic Menu for Office 2007 v3.92

HAINAN, China, May 5 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ — Addintools announced the release of its popular Classic Menu for Office 2007 v3.92, an interface add-on for microsoft Office 2007 bringing back classic style of microsoft Office 2003 interface with all the new features of microsoft Office 2007.
Classic Menu for Office 2007 brings back the simplicity of Office 2003 interface working on the core of Office 2007. Even though Microsoft’s corporate licensing allows users of microsoft Office 2007 to use microsoft Office 2003, it is recommended that both versions should not coexist in the same computer in order to avoid unwanted issues. While computers with only Office 2003 do not support the format for files prepared under Office 2007, users that go with microsoft Office 2007 need to put up with a completely different way of working with the new ribbon-style interface of Office 2007. Classic Menu for Office 2007 successfully eliminates all these issues and gives total flexibility to users, increasing effectiveness of enterprises and organizations.
This compact add-on brings back not only classic interface of microsoft Office 2003 to Office 2007 — classic menus and toolbars, but also includes all available features and functions of microsoft Office 2007. At any time, any user can switch between interfaces of Office 2003 and 2007, so that users can decide whatever interface they prefer to use.
In version 3.92, the developers of Classic Menu for Office 2007 have performed overall optimization of the tool and additionally, made a couple of changes as suggested by users of the product, making Classic Menu for Office 2007 a truly rock-solid solution. Addintools is inviting over 45,000 current users of Classic Menu for Office 2007 to update their add-on for free. As a creator and maintainer of the tool, Addintools works very hard to offer the best and only solution, both valuing users of its products and taking into account their needs, while providing organizations with significant discounts for multi-license versions of the product.
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About Addintools

Founded in March 18, 2003, Addintools specializes in UI enhancement software and software consulting. Customers of Addintools include not only single users from all over the world, but also their customers include some Universities and Colleges, Famous Enterprises and Government Departments. For more information, please visit .
Contact:

Lin Jie
Addintools, Founder/CEO
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Interfacing’s EPC Leverages IBM Cognos Business Intelligence to Bridge Processes to Performance

MONTREAL and BOSTON, June 16 /PRNewswire/ — Interfacing Technologies Corporation has announced a partnership agreement with Cognos, an ibm company and world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, that will integrate ibm Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management with Interfacing’s Enterprise Process Center(R) (EPC) () business process management (BPM) suite as the new EPC Performance Module ().
The EPC Performance Module gives users a powerful set of dashboards and reports based on the real-time process information available within the EPC’s Datamart repository. The EPC supports the full range of 3rd party reporting tools, but through this partnership with Cognos a deeper level of integration is introduced to provide business users with one central portal for all Process, Document, Risk and now BI/Performance related information.
“The ‘Intelligence’ in BI lies with the ability to extract and display valuable information - this is crucial to efficient management of company processes, ensuring transparency and ownership throughout all levels of the organization,” says Meir Levi, Interfacing’s CEO. “We pride ourselves in simplifying the complexity for business users - that is why we chose Cognos whom we found to bring the power of BI to the business level. We want every manager to quickly access the information critical to their processes to ensure compliance and quality.”
“Interfacing’s integrated approach to managing processes, knowledge, people and applications is unique in the BPM field. Their single platform design will help companies unify their management, transformation, and governance tasks, while staying flexible enough to encourage agile company growth,” said Ted Jandl, Vice President, OEM Partner Channels at Cognos. “Executives will now gain a powerful perspective on their company, letting them understand what is happening, why, and what corrective actions must be taken to help the organization succeed.”
Interfacing selected the ibm Cognos solution because of its advanced architecture and ease of use for non-technical business users. With Cognos’ robust features, business users will be able to build and schedule custom reports related to their process and organization performance and perform queries without specialized technical knowledge.
Interfacing

Salmon Significantly Lowers the Costs of Implementing IBM Based eCommerce Solutions With SAFE(TM)

WATFORD, England, June 16 /PRNewswire/ — Salmon, specialists in delivering eCommerce solutions, today
announces growing adoption and success of the Salmon Application Framework
for eCommerce (SAFE(TM)). SAFE(TM) is a fully developed, tested and
pre-configured solution comprising reusable components and a mature
methodology, significantly lowering the costs and reducing the risks
typically associated to implementing ibm WebSphere Commerce.

A recent SAFE(TM) project completed for
http://www.hawkshead.com, one of the UK’s largest suppliers of men and ladies
leisure clothing, saw 100% of the merchant’s requirements being met with
little or no customisation required to support catalogue and content
management, marketing, B2C selling and order management. The solution was
developed in just 35 days.

Scotts & Co., a re-branded catalogue-driven business for the
50 age group, has also recently launched newly branded eCommerce websites
using SAFE(TM) to drive existing business and expand its reach.

Wendy Derbyshire, Director of eBusiness & IT at Scotts & Co
says: “We didn’t have an infinite budget, and needed nine eCommerce websites
to be developed under tight deadlines, without compromising on the areas we
see as key, namely scalability, rich functionality, business-user control and
above all the ability to differentiate and deliver a great customer
experience”.

Whilst SAFE(TM) offers a faster time to market and quicker
return on investment, the real benefit is the ibm “on-ramp” SAFE(TM) provides
merchants, lowering the barrier of entry to IBM’s technology stack. Deployed
by some of the world’s top enterprises, ibm WC is widely regarded by analysts
as a scalable and robust eCommerce platform and one of the industry’s leading
eCommerce solutions.A webmaster who has experience of working with web hosting before, knows how to lessen the marketing expenses.

Additionally SAFE(TM) gives merchants the opportunity to focus
on investing time and money in areas that differentiate, such as personalised
cross channel shopping experiences, guided selling, search, and online
merchandising.

Chris Hoskin, Chief Marketing Officer at Salmon says:
“SAFE(TM) has lowered a typical I.T. Services engagement associated with IBM
WC based eCommerce projects by 50% and radically reduces the risks associated
with initially implementing or re-developing an eCommerce website. The
long-term benefit lies with the flexibility to integrate the more complex
aspects of an eCommerce strategy”.

“Our experience suggests that as the pressure to provide an
optimised customer experience increases, businesses have to rip and replace
expensively constructed systems that can’t cope with increasing levels of
traffic, advanced functionality, or the sophisticated integration of multiple
channels. SAFE(TM) is designed for the simplest online stores, but
additionally scales to meet complex multi-channel requirements as the
merchants needs mature”.

8 branded websites have been launched using SAFE(TM) with more
sites to be announced later in the year.

Salmon has delivered a range of sophisticated and award
winning eCommerce solutions for Argos, Halfords, Arcadia Group, ICI Dulux and
Homebase.

Various levels of Application Management and Support (AMS) are
also available from Salmon.

About SAFE(TM)

SAFE(TM) (The Salmon Application Framework for eCommerce) is a
series of pre-configured, reusable and customisable eCommerce components
which combine with a mature eCommerce project delivery methodology. SAFE(TM)
facilitates the rapid delivery of very sophisticated eCommerce solutions,
significantly lowering the risks inherent in launching a new eCommerce
capability, or replacing an existing eCommerce platform.

In the interests of customer choice and commercial
flexibility, SAFE(TM) can be implemented in three ways: either as a Software
as a Service (SaaS) solution, as a starter store with rich ‘out-of-the-box’
capabilities, or as a framework to support a fully bespoke and extended
eCommerce implementation.

About Salmon

Salmon is a highly innovative regional systems integrator
whose commitment to on-time, on-budget projects is increasingly embraced by
the leading names in retail, insurance and financial services markets. Since
1989, leading brands have been turning to Salmon for its ability to build,
integrate and support business-led systems that add measurable competitive
value to their day-to-day operations - and to their bottom line. Salmon
quickly understand business needs, creates realistic development schedules,
and efficiently delivers solutions to plan; based around an ethos that
marries a depth and breadth of development skills, with a management process
that removes virtually all risk from successful project roll-outs. Customers
include Argos, Ann Summers, Bristol & West, Halfords, ICI Paints and Swiss
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Salmon is headquartered in Watford, Hertfordshire and has
offices in the US, China and Australia. For more details about Salmon visit
http://www.salmon.com

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