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I was organizing some of my PeopleSoft documents and came across some screen shots of PeopleSoft from years gone bye. Interesting to see the changes in the application from the Windows 3.1 days to the Web. Enjoy.
Here is the original PeopleSoft 3.0 application from 1994. Windows 3.1 baby!!!
PeopleSoft version 6:
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As we wait for anxiously for Windows Vista 2.0…er…I mean Windows 7, there are a couple of Windows 7 features that are now available in Vista and XP
The first feature is called Aero Snap and can be downloaded here. Once Aero Snap is running you can drag a window to the left or right side of the screen (drag until your cursor is stopped at the side of the screen) and release the mouse button. The window will resize to take up 50% of the screen. If you drag the window to the top of the screen and release the mouse button the window will maximize. Dragging the window away from the top or sides will resize the window back to the original size. Once I realized that the mouse cursor had to stop at the side or top of the screen before Aero Snap would change the window size the program worked flawlessly.
The second feature is called Aero Shake and can be downloaded here. This application is pretty straightforward. When you shake the active window with you mouse, all the other windows will minimize. Shaking the active window again with your mouse will restore the previously minimized windows. In my testing on a Dell XPS laptop running Vista Ultimate I had to give the active window a pretty strong shake with my mouse before the other windows would minimize or restore.
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Over on the Windowsitpro website, Paul Thurrott lets us know that Microsoft will be delaying Internet Explorer 8 to sometime in 2009. Seems that IE 8 is not quite fully baked and needs another public update of the beta release to test out all the bug fixes. IE 8 was originally supposed to be released in late 2008. I applaud Microsoft for not pushing out software that still has some significant bugs. However, Firefox is gaining market share so Microsoft better not delay too long.
You can read the entire story here:
http://windowsitpro.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=100888&feed=rss&subj=0
Paul along with Leo Laporte also hosts an excellent podcast (I mean netcast) called Windows Weekly that can be found on iTunes.
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