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It’s been quiet since a while about the HP Slate… and when you don’t expect it… you find some pages on the HP site with several information about the new HP Slate tablet PC. The HP Slate is a tablet PC which is running on Windows 7 Premium.

The modelnumber HP assigned the device is XB830PA. You can read here the information on the HP site. That the product is almost final is because I also found the accessoiries page which is : https://h10057.www1.hp.com/ecomcat/hpcatalog/specs/provisioner/05/XB830PA_link.htm

It won’t take a long time before everything comes official. We need to have a little bit patience….

Microsoft Office 2010 is available. MSDN and Technet users were able to use Office 2010 since a while.

The first technical preview and beta had already stole my heart. How fast Office 2010 was working. Still I wanted to inform you briefly about some problems I experienced, which all early adopters have.

You can install fffice 2010 as 64-bit version. Nice idea, I thought. Works really fast. It didn’t take long for me to discover that a lot of applications weren’t working with the 64-bit version of Office 2010 because… they still are 32 bit. It should be supported via WOW64 but it sometimes doesn’t work at all. Microsoft also states this when you are installing the 64-bit version, you can also read this in 32 or 64 bits version office 2010 .

Windows Mobile Device Center for example, the new version of ActiveSync, is behaving strange. Several people already reported that their Windows Mobile phone lost all their contacts while syncing with Office 2010 64 bit. Microsoft Phone is the utility to have for having a backup. Always nice… to have a backup nearby.

I installed the 32 bit version when I read also the Sharepoint lists are not available in 64 bit.

The final conclusion is that 2010 is a really good version. Like I started, the betas impressed me, they work really good.

On the E3 finally Project Natal was presented as Kinect. November 2010 is the release date in the USA, Europe’s release date is not known yet.

Here you see some examples of Kinect, new games and the new XBOX360:

Read here the official announcement from Microsoft on the E3 and the video in full quality.