April Software Updates

This month's round of software updates is short and will be completed Friday night, April 11. It includes:

Flash Player
QuickTime
Java

Also, I'm adding Microsoft Works compatibility to Microsoft Office. This will allow full compatibility with documents created on Microsoft Works from versions 6-9; including documents created on Vista.

This summer, we will finally be upgrading all installations of Microsoft Office to 2007 Professional Plus. In addition, document conversion for OpenOffice.org will be added to Office 2007, but OpenOffice.org will be kept and maintained on all public and staff computers.

For ease of compatibility across platforms, Office 2007 will be configured to save documents in Office 2003 or earlier by default. Office 2007 compatibility is currently not available for OpenOffice.org for Windows. However, Ubuntu users can install a compatibility extension for OpenOffice.