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Issue 45: The Technology Issue, Part 2
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July 2012
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Greetings!
Welcome back! Part Two of the Technology Issue continues the focus on you and your computing devices. Comfort and skill with these devices, both stationary and portable, is directly related to both your well-being and productivity.
The purpose of technology is to improve the quality of life. This summer and fall, you'll be introduced to a variety of products that promise to do just that. Let's see how some of them measure up...
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Microsoft Office 2013 Beta Out Today
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 Feeling adventurous? The beta version of Microsoft Office 2013 launched earlier today. Office 2013 brings, among many other things, vastly improved integration with your online world, the buttery smoothness that tablet owners demand, and more touch-friendly targets for the coming wave of tablet PCs and touch laptops.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called the new app suite "the most ambitious release of Microsoft Office that we've ever done." As always, exercise caution when playing with beta software. Use it on a secondary machine, and remember that you'll have to uninstall it someday soon.
The brave and the curious can download the hybrid desktop/online Office 365 beta version of Office 2013 right now. Click here for more info and to download. Once the installer downloads, right-click and select "Run as Administrator" to avoid error messages.
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Windows 8 for You and Your Business: Yes or No?
|  Windows 8 at launch? For those of you who read only executive summaries, the answer is no. Yes. Maybe. Depends on the rig you're using (for tablets, absolutely yes), and whether it's for business, personal, or both.
You should read the article (click here). It's a big one, but by the end, you'll know what's great and not-so-great about Windows 8, and whether you and/or your business should be an early adopter of this slick, hot-rodded new operating system. |
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Tablet Computer Thunderdome: The Reckoning
|  The iPad vs. Android smackdown was a non-starter; iPad steamrolled over all Android challengers. Now, there's a new kid in town: the Windows 8 Tablet PC. We pitted the Tablet PC against the iPad in the Thunderdome. You know the Thunderdome rules: two will enter; only one will leave.
Click here for the mayhem. The outcome may just change the way you work on the road... |
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Charles Thompson: Why I Recommend Apple
|  I'm multilingual in the computer world, speaking Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android. When people ask me what to buy, I tell them, that depends. How high is your tolerance for pain?
If they're just starting out, with no significant investment in any operating system, I recommend Apple, in what may be the worst endorsement of Apple you've ever read. Click here to see... |
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Tech That Scares Us
|  Seen in a recent PC World Magazine:
Google's self-driving car is licensed to hit Nevada streets. And anything else that gets in its way.
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Our Kids: Have We Taken Technology Too Far?
|  Richard Louv, co-founder and chairman emeritus of the Children and Nature Network, writes: "Boomers could be the last generation to remember a time when it was considered normal and expected for children to play in woods and fields. When we leave this earth, will the memory of such experiences leave with us? Reconnecting the young to the natural world (as we reconnect ourselves) could be our greatest, most redemptive cause." Interesting comments, don't you think? Let's prove, and help the next generation prove, that it's possible to simultaneously thrive in the technological and natural worlds. Let's all go outside for a while. |
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A Plea To Our Technological Generation
|  Our industry leads the world in consumer technological advances. Attend a Consumer Electronics Show, and the exhibits aren't the only futuristic things on display. Look at the attendees, bristling with powerful smartphones, media players, tablets, and other tech not even dreamed of a few years ago.
We are also among the worst abusers of the same technology while driving. Sell-Through Solutions and our partners implore you to think twice before touching or viewing a portable device while driving. The lives you save could include yours and your children's, or the children of others.
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Sell-Through Solutions is the leading provider of training content development and retail sales training support for the world's preeminent Consumer Electronics and computer vendors.
Sincerely,
Charles Thompson
Sell-Through Solutions, Inc. |
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