You can configure your favorite IM client such as iChat, Pidgin, Adium, Miranda and start chatting with your Facebook buddies without using your web browser or logging into Facebook.com. To learn how to configure your IM client and start chatting, please refer this page.

Those who intend to use Facebook Chat on their websites, mobile or other application, Facebook Connect for developers now supports Facebook Chat as well.  AIM is one the first to implement Facebook Chat inside their new chat client. You can download the latest beta version of AIM here.

I think the main reason why Google Talk was so successful was because of its open chat protocol. It was so easy to use, and it was available everywhere. Now, Facebook is trying to do the same. I think it’s a step in the right direction for Facebook.

I think Facebook has all the assets to be the best social networking site with status updates, photo/video uploads, sharing news and links, and now, chat! If rumors are to be believed, Facebook is working on a full-fledged webmail product codenamed Project Titan.

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So far, this is just a concept of Chrome OS’s touch interface, but Telegraph claims that Google is already in talks with HTC, the handset manufacturer behind Google branded Nexus One and countless other Android powered handsets.

“Although Chromium is not an official Google website, the concept video has been put together by Glen Murphy, one of Google’s Chrome OS designers. Google is also reportedly in discussions with Taiwanese consumer electronics giant HTC about making a touch-screen tablet computer. HTC already makes many of the mobile phones that run Google’s Android operating system, and designed and built Google’s own-brand handset, the Nexus One.”

Chrome OS was initially meant for the netbooks and this concept could very well mean they could be considering the possibility of scaling their new operating system to touch input based tablet computers as well. Meanwhile, companies like HP are already working on their own tablet computers.

Chrome OS tablet actually sounds like a neat idea, if at all it ever sees the light of the day. Since hardware manufacturers like Dell and HP would very soon be rolling out their own iPad killers, it makes sense for Google to support touch input devices for Chrome OS.

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Ixquick is a free service which provides complete anonymity to the user enabling the user to surf the internet anonymously and safely. They claim it to be world’s most private search engine.

When users perform search on the website they will see a ‘proxy’ option below the search results. When this is activated, Ixquick allows the user to surf anonymously by retrieving the page and display it in the Ixquick window.

The proxy service does not record IP address of the user. It does not record the user searches or any details about proxy usage. It keeps the user invisible to the viewed website, and the viewed site cannot place cookies or see the user’s browser. The proxy offers complete anonymity to the user who wants to surf the web without revealing any private information.

The company’s launched it’s service on 28th January to celebrate the international Data Privacy Day! Ixquick’s consumer data collection is third-party certified by the European Privacy seal.

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According to Steve Jobs: “This device lets you hold the whole world wide web in you hands. It is the best the browsing experience you’ve ever had”

Apple iPad Specifications:

The Apple iPad weighs in at 1.5 pounds (0.7 kilo) and has a 9.7 inch multi-touch LCD. It’s core is a custom-built Apple own A4 1 GHz CPU. It has 16GB to 64GB of flash storage space.

Apple claims it has a 10 hour battery life . It has 802.11n, WiFi, and Bluetooth 2.1 for connectivity. It also has a speaker, microphone and 30-pin connector. It is about half an inch thick and has a built in Accelerometer.

iPad has iTunes software built in and allows users to buy music and movies straight to the device. It also allows users to download applications and supports third-party software apart from the built in Apple apps. Apple claims that the iPad will run most existing iPhone apps straight out of the box.  iPad allows synchronizing apps between the two devices.

Apple is launching a developers kit for software developers, to help create apps for the new iPad. Steve Jobs also announced a new app called iBooks, to manage ebooks on the iPad.

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The year 2009 has been a year full of surprises for us. It was packed with travels and adventures and a lot of good times. We spent a lot of time on the road travelling, spending time with family and friends. Although we did spend less time on our laptops or workstations posting updates over long nights we are thankful that it was a year, which has been one of the best in the decade for us and we hope the same for you.

Year 2009 has drawn to a close and the new one’s here already! We hope that the new year brings us many good times and less of sober ones. Most importantly we wish that it keeps all of us in good health always and gives us more time to get together with our family and friends.

We also hope to update more frequently around here with the latest in computers, internet and the social media.

On behalf of TechBuzz, yours’ truly would like to wish all our viewers and subscribers a Very Happy and a Prosperous New Year. God Bless!

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It hosts several new features and has new improvements incorporated in its architecture and focuses on fixing many bugs present in its predecessor.

WordPress 2.9 is also much more secure and we recommend everyone upgrading their WordPress installations to Version 2.9.

With the importance of Plugins in the world of WordPress, it made sense to make the process of checking plugin compatability and updating your plugins as easy as possible. So now you can upgrade all of your plugins all at once from the Upgrade menu, and WordPress will automatically check to make sure that they’re compatible with the current version you’re running.

Media has also been given some attention. Images now feel more at home in the publishing process, thanks to the integration of image editing.

For example, you’ll now find a built in image editor welcoming you as soon as you’ve uploaded a picture. To edit your images later, head to your media library, choose the image you want to change, and click on the new "Edit Image" button. There’s a crop tool… which you can also set the aspect ratio for… in addition to image rotation, and horizontal and vertical image flipping.

Media embedding has also undergone a major makeover. Support for the oEmbed standard makes copying and pasting video URLs right into your post super-simple.

Now all you need to do is paste the URL onto a line of its own… a nd you’re good to go.

By default you’ll find that there’s support for YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, & WordPress.tv, with more on the way.

With the new Trash feature, you can say goodbye to trigger-finger regrets when you delete a post, comment or page. Because now instead of "delete", you’ll see the word "Trash". Trashing a post, page or comment moves it to your WordPress trashcan, where it’ll remain for the next 30 days. So if you suddenly change your mind, or find that you made a mistake, WordPress now has you covered. Just head to the new Trash tab and you can restore or permanently delete the content.

Of course there’s plenty of new stuff going on behind the scenes in 2.9, including automatically repairing database tables to keep things optimized for you, comment metadata, custom fields in the contact area, and a lot more features and fixes besides.

You can read the complete change log here!

Download Wordpress 2.9 here!

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Orion has many innovative features, but the most important one is its ability to switch rendering engines on the fly. This eliminates the need to switch browsers. For web developers this saves time and kills the need to jump from browser to browser to test their design requirements.

Lunascape = IE (Trident)?Firefox (Gecko)?Chrome?Safari (Webkit)

You can download the Lunascape  6 Orion here!

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You can now take advantage of Google Chrome’s speed and ability to search the web right from the address bar. Additionally you can now choose to import your Safari and or Firefox bookmarks and preferences and carry them over to Google Chrome.

Here’s a video from Google.

Google Chrome Extensions has been launched finally. While we compile our notes about it, go ahead and download the Google Chrome for Mac OS X 10.5 here!

Linux:

Linux  users can now cheer! Those who have been patiently waiting to download and use Google Chrome can now download the beta version of Google Chrome for Linux here!

It supports Linux (Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/openSUSE)

If you wish the find out more details about Google Chrome Beta Mac and Linux, and upcoming extensions for the same please read all the details here and here!

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Google Docs may not be as versatile as the leading desktop word processing applications, but Google has often updated the suite with new capabilities and features. Google Docs may not have all the bells and whistles as present in the other softwares, but it has always met a basic users needs.

Google will soon churn out the following updates to Google Docs.

Now, your search results will display the items most relevant to your search at the top of the list. We also added a new menu on the right side of the toolbar, which lets you decide whether you’d like to sort your Docs list by "Relevance," "Starred" or "Last Modified". This improvement to search within Docs also includes automatic stemming and synonyms. So if you search for "check account", we’ll also include results for a few variations of those words, including "checking account" (which is what you probably meant to type). Or if you search for "mac book", we’ll also include results for "macbook".

Export all your files
There’s also more good news from the Data Liberation Front. A few weeks ago we launched the new "Export…" functionality. Today, we added an "Export all" option, which lets you export all your docs (up to 2GB at a time) with one click. This is the equivalent of almost 100,000 Google Docs.

You can also export a single file and email it to anyone you’d like in a single step. Once you select an item, click "Share" and select "Email as attachment…". Then pick which format (PDF, MS Office, etc.) you want to use to send the item, compose your email, and hit send.

Sunsetting Email-In Your Documents and Files

Lastly, a change that we aren’t excited about. We’re removing the existing "email-in" feature. As you may know, it’s been a bit buggy recently and only supports a small subset of document types compared to the Docs list. In order to address this, we’ll be taking down the feature and working on a bringing it back in the future with more functionality and better integration.

In the meantime, you can use the multi-file upload in your Docs list or the GData API to programmatically upload docs. You can also take attachments from GMail and open them in Google Docs.

[Via: Google]

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At Google’s Search Event, Google Fellow Amit Singhal described it as “It’s Google’s relevance technology meeting the realtime web”.

Google has been internally testing this for a while now. Realtime search is what is required today and Google hits the nail on its head.

A search for Google at the time of posting revealed the following ‘latest’ search results:

The realtime search will auto update itself as new updates appear in the world wide web. Unless you choose to stop the auto update it will show you the latest update as soon as its made available.

Google will offer realtime trends and this new realtime search will work on both Android devices and iPhones immediately. Google plans to include tweets, blog posts and also information from sources like MySpace apart from FaceBook and Twitter tweets.

Read more about this from our friends at TechCrunch.

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YouTube in February, launched this service which allowed content creators to post both free and paid downloads to YouTube.

YouTube sent emails to the users who were allowed to upload content to this service saying that current downloads will be available, but no new ones can be posted.

David Rodriguez of StuffWeLike.com posted a video explaining the move.

You can read more about this and an excerpt from the email he received from YouTube at NewTeeVee

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Centrum.pl has leaked the box art images of Office 2010. Out of the six versions, 4 designs have been revealed. These sets are due to arrive in June 2010.

Centrum was the first to unveil the box art images for Windows 7 in May earlier this year. So we can safely assume that these box art are legitimate.

Home and Student: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote

The Home and Student versions can be licensed to be used on three computers.

Home and Business: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook

Pro Academic: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, Access Professional: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, AccessThe inclusion of the icon and name of each product in the package on the front cover helps in knowing which edition of Office 2010 contains which software.

These designs have received mixed opinions, with some out rightly saying that its ugly, with others who seem to like it.

If you’re interested in trying out the Office 2010 beta then it’s available for download for free, here!

[Via: Centrum(Translated Link)]

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Google Dictionary offers its services in 28 languages including English. It also provides translation services where possible, between English and other languages. Although, it is not to be mistaken with Google Translation.

Google Dictionary works like most other online dictionary services.  You type in a word you want it to define and it will publish the definition from its own database as well as list other references from other online sources.

Google always had the dictionary ability in the form of ‘define’ query in Google search. You can use Google Dictionary at either Google.com/Dictionary or dictionary.google.com

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Nokia’s official response to this leak was “Any speculation on what our 2012 roadmap, including operating systems and product branding, are completely premature”. Considering the fact that Nokia spent $410 million to buy the remaining share of Symbian and loaned out another $630 million to improve the operating system, such a statement was greatly anticipated, keeping share-holder’s sentiments in mind.

Nokia seems to be impressed with the response their latest Maemo powered N900 is receiving from consumers and bloggers. It makes perfect sense for them to play around and try new opportunities. NSeries looks like an ideal test ground for Nokia to experiment Maemo OS and try winning the market share back from iPhone and other bling-bling Android phones.

Nonetheless, I don’t see Symbian dying anytime sooner or later. Not at least with such a large footprint of consumers, developers and applications. ESeries and XSeries will continue to breed using Symbian and Nokia will support both operating systems with Ovi Store and Maemo Select. Positively speaking, by 2012, if the world doesn’t end, we’ll see Maemo marketplace filled with applications to make it a mainstream success.

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“According to a recent posting on Google Groups by Chrome team member Neil Baum, extensions are set to hit Chrome’s beta channel in early December. The plan may well be to launch both the updated beta and extension gallery at the same time” – Download Quad

The extensions link which previously redirected to Google Search, now greets you with “coming soon” message, which leads me to believe that extension gallery is just around the corner. Once extensions arrive in the stable builds on Google Chrome, I think Firefox developers will start porting their extension to Chrome. Once that materializes, Firefox will get some much-needed competition.

I’m looking forward to try extensions on Google Chrome. Firefox consumes way too much resources and I find it sluggish compared to Chrome these days.

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The malware attacks on Macs have begun, although they are nowhere as dangerous as their Windows counterparts. It is only a matter of time, that the frequency of these attacks increase to that against Windows.

"Since 2005, there has been a marked increase in the number of vulnerabilities in the Mac OS which can be used to conduct an attack via the Internet," said Gun Suk Ling, managing director for Kaspersky Lab, Southeast Asia

"Just because they have not been infected in the past does not mean they are safe now," Gun said. "For example, a Mac machine may be compromised by Trojans or key loggers without the user being alerted to the presence of the threat."

Features:

• A global anti-virus database of over 20 million malicious programs for a range of platforms.

• Hourly updates to ensure that users protected against these malicious programs which appear on a day to day basis.

• Kaspersky anti-virus engine makes use of dual and quad core processors to dramatically increase scanning speed.

• It enables better use of system resources by increasing the performance of user applications when the priority of the anti-virus decreases.

• It has an automatic mode where it wont bother the user with unnecessary requests, enabling the anti-virus program to take decisions automatically.

• Fast and non-intrusive with only 1% CPU impact on your Mac performance

• It’s user-friendly interface is easy to understand for both novice and advanced users. Familiar Mac-style appearance and operation

• Kaspersky anti-virus is compatible from Mac OS version 10.4.11.

It seems like the the days of the popular opinion that Macs are safe from virus and Trojan attacks are getting over. Even otherwise that would be wrong to assume that any operating system is ideally safe from attacks from malicious programs. Macs have good security features to prevent malicious code from damaging the OS but even Macs are not bulletproof.

Macs are gaining popularity and with the user base increasing they will certainly be more prone to attacks in the near future. Therefore it would be wise to keep your operating systems safe from any possible threat.

[Via:Kaspersky]

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It raises a few questions in my mind: How different will it be from their Android OS for Mobile and what distinct features it might have. Since it is in its early stages of development and is said to be based on Linux.

• What could be the possible limitations of this OS.

• Will it run third-party applications from the hardware or simply connect to applications in the internet cloud.

• Google claims it will end security related issues. Will the new OS be ‘really free’ from viruses, trojans and malware.

• Will it be limited to the applications hosted by Google.

Google Chrome OS is claimed to be lightweight and targeted at the entry level notebook users. Google intends its Chrome OS to be lightweight and connect its users quickly to its Cloud applications, which it hopes will consume very less system resources.

But do we have any use for the Chrome OS on a desktop? Atleast not right away! On a notebook it might provide some functionality. But on a desktop pc it might just serve as a gateway to connect to the internet while completely relying on the internet to get any work done.

Although in terms of performance; an OS such as this one with minimalist functionality could outpace the current crop of operating systems. It may free these notebook devices with limited functionality from running memory hogging operating systems such as the Windows and Windows Applications.

But from a practical point of view for many computer users notebooks are ‘practically’ useless for any real work.

Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Cinema 4D or even PC Games or any other heavy duty stuff would be possible in the cloud? I don’t think it would be possible, at least not at the moment. So for some of these reasons it may not hold much value for developers and power users alike.

It would be naive to say that all the pc users account for the aforementioned, but the trade-off here is that for those who use computers for ‘data entry’ this would provide a more ‘cost effective’ option as opposed to running a Windows OS. The Google Chrome OS is free and open-source and subject to future development and upgrades from vast number of developers.

The trade-offs here need to be considered. These days with the many manufacturers and wireless carriers selling notebooks as another piece of communication hardware, and not a full blown computer; an operating system such as the Google Chrome OS might actually be worthwhile on a notebook.

With most of us looking for an working operating system that pretty much does what we would like to get done; Windows, Mac and even Linux seem to fit the bill very well, therefore leaving very little space for Chrome OS to occupy.

If you wish to read more about the Google Chrome OS, read all about it at The Official Google Blog and Google Chrome Blog.

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Now download the full installer, instead of the small web installer, which normally launches a wizard to download full installation files. It is for users who prefer the full version standalone offline setup installer for Yahoo! Messenger.

Download Yahoo! Messenger 10 Final Build using the following direct download links:

Windows Users: It is compatible with Windows 7. You can download Yahoo! Messenger from the following links.

US English: ymsgr1000_1102_us.exe

America
Argentina: ymsgr1000_1102_ar.exe
Brazil: ymsgr1000_1102_br.exe
Canada: ymsgr1000_1102_ca.exe
Canada (Quebec French): ymsgr1000_1102_cf.exe
Chile: ymsgr1000_1102_cl.exe
Columbia: ymsgr1000_1102_co.exe
Mexico: ymsgr1000_1102_mx.exe
Peru: ymsgr1000_1102_pe.exe
Venezuela: ymsgr1000_1102_ve.exe
Yahoo! Telemundo (Latin America Spanish): ymsgr1000_1102_e1.exe

Europe
France: ymsgr1000_1102_fr.exe
Germany: ymsgr1000_1102_de.exe
Italy: ymsgr1000_1102_it.exe
Spain: ymsgr1000_1102_es.exe
UK & Ireland: ymsgr1000_1102_uk.exe

Oceanic
Australia & New Zealand: ymsgr1000_1102_au.exe

Asia

India (English): ymsgr1000_1102_in.exe
Indonesia: ymsgr1000_1102_id.exe
Hong Kong (Chinese): ymsgr1000_1102_hk.exe
Korea: ymsgr1000_1102_kr.exe
Malaysia: ymsgr1000_1102_my.exe
Philippines: ymsgr1000_1102_ph.exe
Singapore: ymsgr1000_1102_sg.exe
Taiwan (Traditional Chinese): ymsgr1000_1102_tw.exe
Thailand: ymsgr1000_1102_th.exe
Vietnam: ymsgr1000_1102_vn.exe

Mac Users:

Download Full Version Here!

Additonally:

Mobile Users download Yahoo! Messenger 10 here!

iPhone Users download Yahoo! Messenger 10 here!

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According to the Yahoo! Messenger Blog, Yahoo! Messenger 10 includes the following features:

High-quality video calls
We’ve completely redesigned our 1:1 webcam feature (under the hood too). Now you can make a high-quality video call to a friend with synched audio, right in the IM window. Features include the ability to swap video windows, position the video windows side-by-side, mute the call or place it on hold. You can even go full-screen with your video call. To get started, click the new “Video Call” button in the IM window (your friend also needs to be on Yahoo! Messenger 10). Tips for making video calls | Having fun with video effects

New “Y! Updates” view of your contact list
People are busy these days, doing all sorts of interesting things online. To help you keep up with your friends, we added an alternate view of your contact list that shows a real-time stream of their updates, including Messenger status message changes. If they’ve opted-in to share their updates via Yahoo!, you’ll be able to see what they’re saying on Twitter, reading on Yahoo! Buzz, listening to on last.fm, and more.

We also added additional features for how and when you see your friends’ updates. When a new update comes in, a “toast” alert will pop up in the lower right corner of your screen. If you want to disable these, go to Messenger > Preferences > Yahoo! Updates. You can turn alerts on and off and even update preferences by contact or by type of update.

Find more to chat about
Within the new “Yahoo! Updates” view, you’re sure to find more to talk about with your friends. To make it easy, we added a hover menu that lets you quickly IM a friend about their update. When you do, the update appears inline in the conversation window, so when you start your IM with “I can’t believe you like this song!”, your friend will know what you’re talking about. Note that your friend needs to also be on Yahoo! Messenger 10 to see the update inline.

Change your language easily
If you use the U.S. version but wish it could be in your local language, you’re in luck. When you start up Yahoo! Messenger 10, you’ll notice a new language menu on the sign-in screen. Choose from 16 different languages and the buttons, menus and various parts of the interface will change to that language. If you’re already signed in, you can also change your language under Messenger > Preferences > Language (you’ll have to restart Yahoo! Messenger for it to take effect).

The Changelog Includes:

• Enhanced video calling – feel like you’re there with high-quality, full screen video and voice calling.

• Keep up with what your friends are doing – see your friend’s latest updates from Yahoo!, Flickr, Twitter and more with the new “Updates” view.

• Improved language support – change your preferred language in Yahoo! Messenger with just a few clicks High-quality video calls.

• Instant Messaging – send text messages in real-time to your friends on Yahoo! Messenger.

• Chat Rooms – Join a chat room to meet new friends while you discuss your favorite topics.

• Photo Sharing – share photos from your desktop or Flickr, then discuss them over IM while you and a friend view them together.

• PC-to-PC Calls – make a voice call to another Yahoo! Messenger user for free (microphone and speakers/headset required).

• Phone Out (PC-to-Phone Calls) – Call friends on their regular or mobile phones from Messenger for as low as 1¢ a minute (Phone Out account required).

• Phone In (Get a Phone Number for Messenger) – get a new phone number that allows you to receive calls in Yahoo! Messenger (Phone In account required).

• SMS (Text Messaging) – send text messages from Messenger to your friends mobile phones for free.

• Webcam- plug in your webcam to share live video with your friends on Yahoo! Messenger.

• IM Conferencing- instant message with many friends at once in a conference room (includes voice capabilities, where available).

• IM with Friends on Other Networks – IM with friends who use Windows Live™ Messenger, Reuters Messaging, and Lotus Same time — right from Yahoo! Messenger.

• File Transfer – send files instantly to a friend while you IM (2 GB limit).

Windows 7 users please note: It is fully compatible with all iterations of Windows 7.

You can proceed to download the Windows, Mac, Mobile and iPhone versions of Yahoo! Messenger 10 Final Version below:

Download Yahoo! Messenger 10 Final Full Standalone Version For Windows and Mac

Download Yahoo! Messenger 10 Final Full Standalone Version For Mobile

Download Yahoo! Messenger 10 Final Full Standalone Version For iPhone

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“This product installation has been corrupted.  Please reinstall from original CD or source.”

According to Vikas Narula from Technet, the problem is cause by a missing file from the installation folder of Office 2010:

“To uninstall Office 2010 14.0.4302.1000 if you have an uninstall error message "This product installation has been corrupted". The Problem is a missing file in the installation folder of office 2010. Office 2010 as a Setup Controller directory and uses the directory to check the installed components. Please check he directory  "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE14\Office Setup Controller\Groove.en-us\". if you have no "Setup.xml" file there please copy the file from the "Groove.en-us" directory of the source files to this directory and test the uninstallation again”

To fix this issue, right click and save setup.xml to your computer and copy it to this folder:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE14\Office Setup Controller\Groove.en-us\

Now try uninstalling Office 2010 Technical Preview.

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