Thursday, June 07, 2007

Adobe and Happiness at Work

Adobe Acrobat 8.1 for Office 2007 and Windows Vista

Finally, after a long long wait, Adobe today released an Acrobat 8 patch that makes this popular PDF writer compatible with Microsoft Office 2007 programs and Windows Vista.

[Sorry, but no Office 2007 update for Acrobat 7 users]

Other than the new PDFmaker add-on for Office 2007, the second most exciting feature is the PDF Preview Handler - you can now view PDF files in Office Outlook 2007 as well as in Windows Explorer on Windows Vista without starting Acrobat or Adobe Reader.

And like Mindjet MindManager 7, Acrobat 8.1 too sports the new Office 2007 style Ribbon UI - we are likely to see more and more vendors adapting to the new Office Ribbon especially when their application is tied to Office applications.

Organizations who have shifted to Office 2007 may be desperately waiting for Acrobat 8.1 since the Save as PDF plugin, available for free from Microsoft, doesn't work with Outlook emails which is like a lifeline for most Office users.

User who do not have Acrobat 8.0 Professional or Standard version may download the new version of Adobe Reader 8.1 to view PDF documents.

(Amit Agarwal,Wednesday, June 06, 2007)


Happiness at work

Steve Richards (Jun 05, 2007) writes that "Over the last few years I have paid a lot of attention to improving my happiness at work and it's certainly paid off". Right now life is pretty interesting with the increasing acceptance of consumerization and work life balance and integration as important issues for enterprise IT. I can only see things improving as we see more people working outside the office, further integration of work and personal IT, more work/life integration, and richer IT experiences . Finally I am excited about the gradual recognition within business of the value of a happy workforce. The Happiness at Work Index 2007 Research Report provides a useful summary of the current state of happiness at work and the workbook provides some good tips if you are feeling a bit overwhelmed by the volume of work.

Steve Richards Jun 05, 2007


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