Sophos Anti-virus Home Use Option enables Davidson College faculty and staff to install Sophos Anti-virus on one personally-owned Mac OS computer (PowerMac, iMac, Mac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Pro or Mac mini). These instructions will walk you through downloading and installing the software, which will then update itself via the Internet at regular intervals.

ITS is pleased to announce the availability of Office 2007 for Windows. We would like to make the upgrade to Office 2007 as rewarding and trouble free as possible. To help guide your decision, please review the Key Information and Request to Upgrade.

Sophos Anti-virus Home Use Option enables Davidson College faculty and staff to install Sophos Anti-virus on one (1) personally-owned computer. These instructions describe how to install the application which will stay updated via the Internet each time you go online. Updates are downloaded, either manually or automatically, from Central Installation Directories (CIDs) on Davidson's Sophos web server.

Continuing their efforts to publicize the new features and technologies in Office 2008 for Macintosh, Microsoft's Mac team have posted up a bit of information on the new version's improved Toolbox feature, which gives you access to a host of formatting features in a single, collapsible window. Check it out.

The Mac team have also provided a spiffy update to the Charts function of Excel. The new version will have a more polished presentation and new tools. More information at Mac Mojo.

ITS will be upgrading the Ingeniux Web Content Management software on October 16, 2007.

Webcontent/buildsite will be unavailable during the normal maintenance window that ends at 7:30 AM.

Please remember to ALWAYS close out of the CMS at the end of the night or when not working in the system.

After the upgrade, the next time that you log-in to webcontent/buildsite, you will be prompted to download the software. Go through the prompts, making special note of the screen that asks about installation.
There are two options: 1) Install for Me or 2) Install for Everyone. You must select the For Everyone option.

As a Windows XP user, you will probably not notice any changes from this upgrade. This upgrade also provides support for the Windows Vista operating system.

This may be the Office 2008 update most of you have been waiting for. Today over at Mac Mojo, Microsoft serves up the straight dope on the new Entourage 2008 mail client. Today, they're mostly discussing calendaring (since that was one of the biggest sources of user complaints). What's so great about the new version, you ask?

• Set your meeting status directly from the calendar
  
• Improved meeting organizer tool for updates to meeting status, etc.
  
• Reply, Reply to All and Forward meeting information (and access these options directly from the calendar)
  
• Better handling of stale invitations
  
• Better notifications of conflicts and adjacent appointments
  
• With our new Exchange 2007 server, better handling of the "Automatically accept meetings as tentative" feature
  
• Better resource booking

Apple, Inc. today confirmed plans to release Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) to the public on October 26. This is a pretty exciting upgrade, including a claimed 300 new features and abilities. ITS has been tracking Leopard's progress for more than a year now, and based on the previews we've seen, we expect the new Mac OS to improve campus computing for Mac users substantially.

Testing the release version of the product, developing new master images and generally getting the new OS ready for deployment will take some time. For stability and security, ITS will likely wait until Apple issues at least one update to 10.5 before we release it to campus. In the meantime, watch this space for more news about what you can expect from the next big cat.

As you may know, Congress passed a law that changes the start and end dates for Daylight Saving Time (DST). The end date for DST is Sunday, November 4th, 2007.

Microsoft released the patch for the Daylight Saving Time change in August. ITS has already applied the necessary update to all campus servers and college owned computers. As a user, the update should be transparent to you and requires no additional action. Campus Apple computers did not require any updates for the DST change and are unaffected.

More information about the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the Daylight Saving Time change is available from the US Department of Energy http://www.energy.gov/about/EPAct.htm