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First, for the Office-aholics out there, Microsoft says it will post Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh tomorrow. As in Thursday.
This is officially "the final external product milestone leading to RTM," says the company through a spokeswoman.
Birdies confirm that the controversial Control-F1 keystroke combo that minimizes the Office 2007 "ribbon" Interface is in this build.
Beta two testers can avail themselves of the download from this site.
And, venerable Sage Software announced Saleslogix 7 is now available with better, slicker mobile client support.
Infinity info Systems CEO Yacov Wrocherinsky, a long time Sage partner out of New York, lauds the new offering and the company itself.
"Saleslogix 7 is a major overhaul, it's got more .Net support, more dashboards, many more functions," says Wrocherinsky. But perhaps more importantly from a partner point of view, he finds Sage to be an extremely good vendor partner. "They are very loyal," he noted.
In addition, SaaS sweetheart Salesforce.com unveiled new perks of its Winter 07 release including better customization. Folks can get componentized analytical dashboardsi.e. that bring in data from Salesforce and outside apps.