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Microsoft Office 2010 marks the first time Office will be shipping in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
With Windows 7, you have the option of running 64-bit Windows on your 64-bit PC, and now with Office 2010 you have that same choice. As 64-bit processors and operating systems are becoming the standard for systems ranging from servers to desktop computers, 64-bit Office will be able to take advantage of everything that 64-bit systems have to offer.
Some users need greater memory capacity, and those who crunch huge Excel spreadsheets filled with financial data or those who track large projects (such as building an aircraft carrier) using Microsoft Project have that capability. File sizes greater than 2 GB are now possible for applications such as 64-bit Excel and Project, with pretty much all the same user experience and functionality as 32-bit Office. It's important to note, however, that 32-bit and 64-bit Office side-by-side on the same machine is not supported.
In this post, I'll help you decide what version is best for you, show you how to install the version you want, provide some background on 64-bit Office, and list some things you should keep in mind.
First, let's take a step back and understand what 64-bit means. A 32-bit processor uses a 32-bit memory address length, which limits the memory it can address to about 4 GB. As users are running more memory-intensive applications at once, a 32-bit address length is no longer adequate. Enter the 64-bit processor, which can address a potential 17 billion GB.
With a 64-bit processor, you can install a 32-bit or a 64-bit operating system (OS), though only a 64-bit OS is capable of addressing more than 4 GB of memory. Finally, depending on what OS you've installed, you can then install a 32-bit or 64-bit application. There is support for 32-bit applications to run on 64-bit Windows using Windows-32-on-Windows-64 (WOW64).
Before talking about 64-bit Office, I want to emphasize how much better 32-bit Office is on 64-bit Windows compared to 32-bit Windows. The basic reason is simple. On 32-bit Windows, it doesn't make sense to install more than 4 GB of physical memory because anything beyond 4 GB can't be addressed. However, the limitation means constantly jumping among multiple applications could degrade performance because of thrashing.
On 64-bit Windows, you can install a lot more physical memory. While we work hard to minimize the amount of memory our applications use (Office 2010 has the same minimum memory requirements as Office 2007), this ability to access more memory means that 32-bit Office applications on 64-bit Windows will be able to open, edit, present documents, and switch among applications much faster than on 32-bit Windows. This is especially true if you run other memory-intensive applications alongside Office. Of course, your ultimate performance will be determined by the relationship between the amount of virtual memory being actively used and the amount of actual memory installed on your system.
Whether you choose to run 32-bit Office or 64-bit Office, 64-bit Windows 7 or Vista makes a great operating system environment.
If you're trying to decide between 32-bit and 64-bit Office, you should ask yourself what your needs are. Are you an Excel power user working with huge amounts of data? Do you need to work with file sizes greater than 2 GB? If so, then you would benefit from 64-bit Office being able to utilize more memory. If not, we're recommending 32-bit Office 2010 as the default installation on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows mainly due to compatibility with existing 32-bit controls, add-ins, and VBA (update: most VBA code will work without modification on 64-bit Office, but see this paper more details).
We expect over time for 64-bit Office to become the norm. Beyond the immediate benefits of supporting larger documents, there will be benefits to having a consistent 64-bit ecosystem for all extensions and controls. By offering a 64-bit version of Office 2010, we have taken a huge step along this transition path and enabled both customers and partners to be well-positioned for the future.
If you're downloading Office 2010 online, then you get to decide what version to download (you can get the other version later if you want). If you buy it on a DVD, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Office 2010 will be available. If you install 32-bit Office, for example, and you decide later you want to use 64-bit Office instead, the 32-bit version must be uninstalled (it's as simple as uninstalling any other program) before installing the 64-bit version.
On the DVD, you'll notice that the file structure looks like this:
On a computer with no Office products installed, the setup.exe file denoted by the red arrow is the "platform selector." If you run it, it will automatically install 32-bit Office 2010 by default, even on 64-bit Windows. The only time it will install 64-bit Office is if it detects 64-bit Office already installed on your computer. If you want to install 64-bit Office, then open the x64 folder and run setup.exe from there. Similarly, running the setup.exe file in the x86 folder will install 32-bit Office directly.
You'll see these instructions if you run setup.exe on 64-bit Windows, select Customize, and click on the Platform tab.
We do not support 32-bit and 64-bit Office versions side-by-side natively on the same 64-bit Windows instance. For example, you will be blocked from installing 64-bit Excel 2010 if 32-bit Outlook 2010 is already installed. This also applies to previous versions of Office, so that 64-bit Project 2010 cannot be installed on the same Windows instance as 32-bit Office 2007. Of course if you are running a 32-bit operating system, you will only be able to install and run 32-bit applications.
You'll be able to check the version of Office you have by going to the Backstage view (click File tab | Help):
If you want to check what version of Windows you have, right-click Computer, select Properties, and look under "System type."
What did it take to get here? Simply telling the compiler to generate 64-bit code was a first, but very small step. We had to find all the places where pointer differences or buffer lengths were stored in 32-bit values rather than 64-bit values. We built special tools to examine code for problematic computations that might fail on 64-bit. We had to find new ways of testing the applications to identify errors that would only arise when the code was running. Virtually every line of the millions of lines of code in Office needed to be examined for the consequences of this shift. Many of our tools also needed to be ported as we shifted our default development environment to 64-bit.
We also needed to consider ActiveX controls and components. For example, 32-bit Internet Explorer (IE) can only load 32-bit ActiveX controls, so the 32-bit version of the controls in Office needed to be shipped with 64-bit Office. In addition, there are some components from teams within Microsoft that ship with Office, and we needed to make sure 64-bit versions of these were also available. (For developers: there are exceptions, such as the Microsoft Common Control (ComCtl.OCX) files, which will only be available as 32-bit controls).
Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Office are largely indistinguishable, except that 64-bit Office has a much higher memory capacity. As mentioned above, the extra memory capacity comes at the cost of some compatibility with existing extensions to Office, such as 32-bit versions of ActiveX Controls and some 3rd party add-ins, in addition to 32-bit versions of programs that interface directly with Office. New versions of these extensions will need to be obtained, and it will take some time for 64-bit compatible extensions to be made available.
For these reasons, we recommend running 32-bit Office 2010 even on 64-bit Windows operating systems for better compatibility. On 64-bit Windows, more applications and documents may be opened at once, and switching among them will be faster because the machine can have more physical memory for the processes to share. When the 64-bit ecosystem for Office is more mature, you'll be able to easily migrate to 64-bit Office!
Ted Way,
Program Manager, Product Lifecycle and Engineering Excellence (PLEX)
Microsoft Office
Today, over on the MDOP BLOG, we announced the release of the next version of Microsoft Application Virtualization (4.6) as part of MDOP 2010 (Microsoft Deployment Optimization Pack). From Takeshi Numoto, Corporate VP in Office:
"App-V 4.6 provides Office customers with a robust set of features to tackle core challenges including application upgrade, application coexistence, and user readiness. It's an exciting, powerful new way for IT to deliver Office 2010 quickly without impacting user productivity."
We are particularly excited about the announcement because a huge portion of the work that was done to make this great release is going to go a long way towards simplifying the deployment and management of Office 2010. If you are new to application virtualization you can get background and quick how to guidance here.
The release fixes a lot of the key issues customers ran into when sequencing such as:
In the next few weeks we will have a more detailed post on how to sequence 2010, benefits of AppV and more but in the meantime check out this detailed post on Office 2010 and AppV 4.6 from some of our awesome virtualization MVPs. For those of you that have already tried sequencing the beta (or older versions) we would love to get your feedback and thoughts.
-Reed Shaffner, Technical Product Manager, Microsoft Office
Do you want to learn about InfoPath and SharePoint 2010 in FREE Web casts with the InfoPath product team? Then sign up for the InfoPath 2010 Academy Live Series.
There are 3 remaining sessions in the series. The next session "Building SharePoint Applications with InfoPath 2010" will take place on Wednesday, March 10th from 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM (PST).
If you missed our 1st session, "An introduction to SharePoint applications using InfoPath 2010", you can view it on demand here. Just click the "Register Now" button.
This is a great opportunity to learn all about our new features and scenarios directly from the product team, so sign up now!
Also, as we first mentioned in this blog post a few weeks ago, the InfoPath team is continuing to publish their weekly "5 for forms" demos. In particular, check out the following two recent topics:
Since announcing our public Beta, many folks on the Office team have been hard at work engaging with pre-release testers to find and fix any potential deployment issues IT departments may face with existing Office solutions once Office 2010 is released. In addition to engaging on specific developer features like UI extensibility, we also started the Office 2010 Application Compatibility Program – here are excerpts from this blog post:
With the great value Office 2010 brings for end users, IT Professionals and Developers, we are also investing heavily in making deployment of the new version of Office easier. As part of our focus on deployment, we have renewed priority on helping ensure applications and Add-ins for existing installations of Office continue to work without hangs, crashed or performance degradation when interfacing with Office 2010. …The compatibility program will provide tools for environment assessment, code scanning and remediation assistance, and an update to the document conversion tools introduced with Office 2007. The tools, guidance and services we are delivering will be the most comprehensive we have provided to date for a new release of Office.
With the great value Office 2010 brings for end users, IT Professionals and Developers, we are also investing heavily in making deployment of the new version of Office easier. As part of our focus on deployment, we have renewed priority on helping ensure applications and Add-ins for existing installations of Office continue to work without hangs, crashed or performance degradation when interfacing with Office 2010.
…The compatibility program will provide tools for environment assessment, code scanning and remediation assistance, and an update to the document conversion tools introduced with Office 2007. The tools, guidance and services we are delivering will be the most comprehensive we have provided to date for a new release of Office.
Now that we are getting closer to release, we wanted to double down and keep the great feedback coming, so we've started the Office 2010 Application Compatibility Tools Bug Hunt, with prizes for those who help us find bugs. Official rules and all the details in the linked post, but here's a quick excerpt:
To win the prizes, all you need to do is to download beta of the Office Environment Assessment Tool (OEAT) and beta of the Office 2010 Code Compatibility Inspector, run them and report any bugs you discover to firstname.lastname@example.com before April 9th. If we are able to reproduce your bug or you can help us identify a defect in the tools, that becomes your sweepstakes entry. From the submitted and approved bugs, we will randomly select winners after April 9th.
Happy Hunting!
Recently, we posted information on the Outlook blog about a bug in the Microsoft Office 2010 Beta that increases the message size of some e-mails messages sent from the Microsoft Outlook 2010 Beta. The Office team has been hard at work building a fix for this issue, which is available immediately.
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This fix prevents future messages from consuming unnecessary space, but doesn't resize existing messages. If you reply or forward an existing message that is affected by this bug, it remains enlarged. To help reduce the impact of large messages on your Inbox and mailbox storage quota, you can also run Conversation Cleanup (new feature in Outlook 2010) on large folders. On the Home tab, in the Delete group, click Clean Up. Also, consider starting new message conversations or threads when possible.
Although Office 2010 is in Beta and is not final, we are both excited and humbled by the fact that more than 2.5 million people have downloaded and used the Beta. We want to make sure you have a great experience with Office 2010. If you are using the Office 2010 Beta, take a moment to download this important fix.
Hello, my name is Tim Briggs – I am a user experience (UX) Researcher in the Office Design Group (ODG). Usage data is one of the important feedback mechanisms we look at to understand how Office is being used in the real world. Answering questions like "how frequently is a command used?" and "how many files contain this feature?" are critical parts of our entire engineering process.
Today, I'd like to give you a better sense of how we collect, interpret, and design based on usage data. To get the most out of this discussion, some background might be helpful to you. I encourage you to check out Shawn's post on Designing with Customers in Mind post—it will give you an idea of our research and design process. I'll also point you to Peter's post on Data Driven Engineering—it introduces the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP), which is the source of the usage data I'll discuss.
We collect two main types of usage data: command usage and feature usage. Each gives us a different perspective but the goal of analyzing both is to find patterns of usage in customer data. It's also important to note that because the data are coming from CEIP, they are anonymous and contain nothing that can identify individuals or their content. But seen in aggregate, general patterns of usage emerge that help us explore, confirm, or challenge our understanding of how all of the Office applications and services are being used.
Command usage data (aka "click data") tell us how a specific command is used. For instance, take the example of the Paste command. If we combine all of the clicks on Paste, we can mine that data to get a better understanding of:
The Paste command in Word 2010 – command usage data helps us understand how it's used
Command usage data also tells us about how different parts of the user interface are being used.
The Home tab in Word 2010 – the arrangement and size of buttons is informed by command usage data
This is basic but super useful information…and a bit daunting. Did you know that in Word alone there are over 2,000 commands? Want to know the most common Word command operating on text? Paste.
Feature usage data is a little more difficult to describe. Let me try. Think of a "feature" as a general capability of Office, like Tables in Word. There might be many commands associated with using tables (e.g., Insert Table, Delete Row, Move Column…). While we might be interested in each of those commands, often we want to understand use of the feature at a higher level. This requires feature usage data—counters that we build into the feature to answer specific, predicted questions:
If you want an interesting exercise, think of an idea you have for improving Office. First, use Send-A-Smile to tell us about it. :) Then, think about what information you would need to know about how that feature is used in order to create and validate your design for all of the users that will be impacted. That's your feature usage data. And here's a tip we use with all of our teams: sketch out the graph of the data which you expect to see once implemented—this helps you think about the form of the data to collect and sets your expectations for the final data to help you spot errors in your initial assumptions.
This is just a sampling to give you an idea of the breadth and depth of typical usage data we use across our engineering stages, from initial 'what-ifs' to late stage 'Beta use is showing we have to change this.'
Let's look at an example. Usage data tells us that Paste is the most frequent editing operation (for instance, it's used almost two times more frequently than Bold). We also know from our other research methods (field visits, usability labs, focus groups, Send-A-Smile, etc.) that sometimes reformatting pasted content can be painful. We feel it ourselves—it can be hard to get the new content to look right.
As we began working on Office 2010, we wanted to improve the Paste experience. In order to do that we needed to understand more about how Paste is used. We looked to the usage data to provide some context. Below is an example of some of the ways usage data informed the engineering of what would eventually become the Paste Options gallery, which Mirko explains in his post on Live Preview Paste.
Data used
How many users would this impact?
Command Usage:
Paste is used by almost every user in almost every session of Word. In fact, it occurs more frequently per session than other related commands…like Cut or Copy.
How are Paste and Paste Recovery being used?
Feature Usage:
The result was the chart above. Note how frequently content is pasted from a different document or different application—those sources probably have different formatting, explaining the need for the additional formatting options provided by Paste Recovery.
How do users get to the commands?
Predictably in Word, the most frequent is Ctrl-V by a wide margin, with the right-mouse menu next.
We used this data to explore 1) improving the ease of access, the contents, and the interaction model of the Paste Recovery widget for keyboard users; 2) putting the Paste options directly in the right-mouse menu, for those users who are accustomed to pasting via the context menu; and 3) we also thought about how we can expose the improved Paste experience in the Ribbon. After iterating on several designs in the usability lab, you can see the result in the Office 2010 Ribbon, right-mouse context menu, and the Paste Recovery OOUI widget:
What do people do after they paste?
Other than continuing to type, the most frequent commands relate to formatting (changing font size, color, appearance). The next most frequent are another Paste or an Undo.
We used this data to understand what options needed to be available in the Paste Recovery options. It also clearly signaled that people are not satisfied with Paste results since they were often making "manual" formatting changes (or undoing the action) immediately after pasting.
Which Paste Recovery options are most used? Do we have the right defaults?
The result was the chart above. It shows how frequently each Paste Recovery option is used. KeepSourceFormatting is the default and comparing that to the number of times Paste is used versus number of times Paste Recovery is used, we have the right default. Note that the other options in the Paste Recovery widget are arranged in order by frequency:
Armed with the usage data above, we explored different designs, iterated on them, and arrived at the current design that Mirko explains in his post. And now, as we receive usage data from the Office 2010 Beta releases, we continue to analyze the usage of this and the other significant improvements we made this version.
So, I hope this discussion has given you a sense of how we use usage data to improve the Office user experience. It's been a game-changer for us…thank you for providing us the data.
Tim Briggs, UX Researcher, Office Design Group
Hello, my name is Vikas Malhotra, and I am a security Program Manager in the Office Trustworthy Computer Team (TWC). In this post I will be covering some security changes we made around Data Execution Prevention or DEP for short. DEP is one of the many new defense in depth protection layers we have added in Office 2010.
I will begin by telling you what DEP is all about and how it can affect you both as an IT professional and as a developer.
DEP is a security feature that was introduced in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows 2003 server, service pack 1. More general information on DEP can be found in this Microsoft knowledge base article.
When a program is launched, memory pages are allocated for that program. These pages in memory will have a 'marker' to indicate if they are executable or not. If a page is marked as executable, then code within that memory address will be allowed to run. If the page is not marked as executable, then it will not be allowed to run. When DEP is enabled, if code attempts to run from within a page that is not marked as executable, then a DEP exception is raised and the process that is running is terminated.
Now, when malware infects your computer, the first thing it will try to do is write its 'bad code' into your computer's memory areas that are marked as writable and executable. Next, the malware will try to run that malicious code. When this step happens, and DEP is enabled, all you will see is your Office application crashing. From a security perspective, what occurred was Office had stopped potential malware from executing and shut itself down in order to help keep your computer safe.
The easiest method is to use Task Manager. In Task Manager, make sure the column "Data Execution Prevention" is visible. Now, every process that is running with DEP enforced will have the label "Enabled" beside it. To illustrate, the figure below shows winword.exe is running and DEP has been enforced for that process:
Office applications, when booted, will call into the GetSystemDEPPolicy function to determine your computers DEP policy. This API will return one of the following results, and will behave as follows:
If it is determined that an Office application needs to run with DEP enabled, the application will then call into the SetProcessDEPPolicy to ensure DEP is permanently enabled for that processes lifespan. By doing this, we ensure all other binaries loaded into the Office process will have DEP enforced too.
For 64-bit installs, DEP will always be enforced for Office applications. On 32-bit installs, you can configure if you want DEP at the application level within Trust Center. For applications that support Protected View, you will find the option to configure DEP in the Protected View tab. For all other Office applications, you will find the setting in the DEP tab, as shown below:
Figure: Configure DEP Settings for Office Applications that support Protected View
Figure: Configure DEP Settings for Office Applications that do not support Protected View
If the option for enabling DEP is grayed out in the trust center, this is because either the AlwaysOn or the AlwaysOff has been set for your computer.
The option to configure these trust center options is also available in the group policy templates as shown below for Word:
In most cases, your code will not be affected by DEP. If however, your code requires writing into memory locations that are not marked as executable, and then tries to execute that code (such as JIT compilers do), then you will have a few options. The first option is to rewrite you code to no longer execute in this manner. If you do not have access to the source code, or getting newer add-in is not possible, then you can disable DEP using the instructions provided earlier. The last option is to use the VirtualProtect function. VirtualProtect let you write your code into memory into a page that is marked as Write and Execute. Once you are done writing, the Write attribute can be removed. This ensures that you can execute your code at a later time and an exception will not be raised. By removing the Write attribute ensures malware will not be able to infect your memory location.
In the majority of cases, a DEP failure will occur for add-ins you have installed, and not within an Office application. When an add-in triggers a DEP exception, the Office application will terminate and appear as if a normal crash had occurred. When the Office application is restarted, you will be presented with a dialog similar to the one below:
In this example my add-in, the 'my vc test com add-in' had caused Office to become unstable. At this point in time I am given two options. The first option is to disable the add-in from loading, and the second is to try reloading the add-in. My recommendation would be to disable the add-in and let Office boot up normally. Once the Office application starts, I would look in the add-in manger for my add-in and the reason why it was disabled.
In the illustration below, I am able to see that my "add-in was disabled by the user after a Data Execution Failure" had occurred.
At this point, I would keep the add-in disabled until I was able to get a newer version that is DEP friendly.
In conclusion, Office 2010 now ships out of the box with DEP enabled. Data Execution Prevention is a feature that helps keep your computer safe by making sure code that is not intended to execute, never gets that chance.
Thanks. Vikas Malhotra Security Program Manager Office Trustworthy Computing
Hi, again, I'm Tucker Hatfield, a Program Manager on the Office Graphics team with another post on improvements for using pictures in documents in Office 2010. This time we're looking at the improvements to cropping pictures in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook.
When planning our new features for this version of Office, we did a lot of research to find out more about the common tasks people do with pictures in Office. Cropping was overwhelmingly the most-used bit of editing used on pictures, so one of the first things we started work on was making cropping an easier-to-use and more powerful tool.
First of all, we wanted crop to allow you to see both what you were keeping and what you'd cropped out of an image. As an example, let's say I wanted to insert this picture in my document, but I wanted to emphasize the flower by cropping out the leaves.
To do this, I would go to the Picture Tools contextual tab and select Crop to go into cropping mode.
In previous versions of Office, when you moved the crop handles anything outside of the crop rectangle became invisible, which can make it hard to quickly find the best cropping for a picture.
As you can see below, now when you move crop handles on a picture the full picture is shown with the portions outside of the crop area grayed out.
Positioning the crop area is easier now, too. You can click on the picture and "slide" it around behind the crop frame or grab the crop frame and move it around over the picture. This makes fine-tuning what you want to be visible much easier.
Normally when you go into cropping mode the cropping rectangle starts out the same size as the original picture. We realized that there are going to be times when you want to trim a picture to a specific ratio, so we added a drop-down menu to allow you to choose the initial proportions of the crop frame.
Choosing a size will make the original crop rectangle start out at that proportion, fitted to the bounds of the picture. Note that we've included 16:9 and 16:10 in the Landscape section, in order to make formatting pictures to fit widescreen easier.
Once you've chosen an aspect ratio, the crop rectangle can then be resized freely or you can press Shift while you resize from the corners to retain the aspect ratio. Below is an example where I've selected the 1:1 aspect ratio.
But what if you don't want a simple rectangle? You may know that you could apply a shape to a picture using Picture Shape in previous versions of Office. However, when you did, getting the shape oriented the way you wanted it relative to the picture was usually a matter of editing numbers by trial and error in crop section of the Size dialog.
In 2010 we've moved the shapes gallery to the Crop button, where making an image fit in a shape can done very easily visually by choosing Crop to Shape.
Since you can resize the shape and move the shape relative to the picture, getting exactly the result you want is now very easy.
Of course, then you can add shape effects to make the result really pop.
Another common source of frustration for our users occurs when they insert a shape and put a picture fill in it. The normal behavior is that when the picture is filled in the shape it gets squished down to fit inside the shape. We've preserved that as the default behavior because we know some customers rely on it not changing, but we've made fitting pictures in shapes easier by allowing you to use the crop mode on filled shapes, too. By going into crop mode you can manually resize the image to the proportions you want. To make things even easier we've added options to automatically Fill or Fit pictures into the shape. Simply click on one of these options and Fill will scale the picture to completely fill the shape while retaining the proportions of the original picture, while Fit will scale the picture so that it fits entirely within the shape. The examples below show the difference.
We've also enabled cropping for pictures in SmartArt graphics. If you've ever tried using pictures in a SmartArt graphic and been frustrated by the way the image fits, you'll find that fixing that is much easier now. You can resize and reposition the picture to make it look the way you want. Just to make sure you don't accidentally change the layout of the shapes in your SmartArt graphic, we lock the shape so it can't be moved when you're in cropping mode. You can still easily move or resize the picture shape when not in cropping mode, of course.
With all of these changes we've made the most common task you're likely to do with pictures easier as well as more powerful. We're confident that they will help you find new and more creative ways to include pictures in your documents, especially when you combine cropping with the many other improvements you'll find in Office 2010.
Until next time…
In the meantime, we'd love to hear any questions or comments on how these features are working for you. Please let us know if there are any specific topics you'd like to see us write about.
Tucker Hatfield, Program Manager, Office Graphics


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Beano said:It may be Everton news because there is an implication that if Man Utd are getting rid of their assistant manager and goalkeeping coach, they are likely being replaced by people from Everton
ToffeeCup said:
its what happens.......managers leave....back room staff leave.....the club pays
Players leave....talk about leaving....make_pricks of themselves and end up playing in the reserves.....aside from the odd fine.....the club pays.
The upshot is....the clubs pay what the contract says......Moyes is leaving....we gave him permission to go over to their training ground and to have these conversations.....and who knows....you'd imagine we might get the odd kid who doesn't cut it over there.....swings and roundabouts.
Cant wait for the next Phil Neville.cjohno said:maybe moyes will come back and take round with him but i recon he will appoint someone like giggs or neville as number 2 if he appoints someone like giggs it will be an instant hit with the fans and with the respect the players hold giggs in it will ensure he has the dressing room 100%
BIGLOUIE said:Who gives a **** about them, Moyes has gone ...if he would like to take anyone with him...Thats a large chunk of compo please!
Clubs becoming a laughing stock mate.
BIGLOUIE said:What the hell is this club posting Twitter feeds about Utd staff leaving,just cant believe how these buffoons are acting.Bad enough we have a manager thats still under contract here {and highly paid] conducting business for a club he hasnt officially joined yet.
This gets more embarrasing by the day...Only Everton could do this!!!
cjohno said:why lol get a fooking grip, moyes has left, if he wants to do some work for man utd who gives a fk , he probably would of been in the bahamas or someit now if he wasnt at man utd, like any job you have a contract and your entitled to holidays, what he does in his time i dont care, not seen anyone laughing at us only people like you getting all bitter because moyes is doing a bit of work for his new employers.
BIGLOUIE said:Not bitter lad...thats the clubs Official Account , I am willing to bet when Basil left us it wasnt on ManUtds Official account !.Unproffesional at best and you know it mate.
ToffeeCup said:
well.....true.... but thats football isn't it.
Man Yoo and Everton are a good fit.....we are a proper football club.....we don't compete for the title.....we hate liverpool.....and with City's money, we dislike them too.
Strategically......we have a good relationship.....and its one that should be even stronger now.
cjohno said:why would it be on man utd moyes had nothing to do with man utd when basil left, if any everton backroom staff left im sure it would be as its news and relevant to man utd as well
ToffeeCup said:
well.....true.... but thats football isn't it.
Man Yoo and Everton are a good fit.....we are a proper football club.....we don't compete for the title.....we hate liverpool.....and with City's money, we dislike them too.
Strategically......we have a good relationship.....and its one that should be even stronger now.
BIGLOUIE said:Your not getting this mate,as you say Moyes has left..that is past tense...So why would we be interesed in who is leaving Manutd...that sort of news is for Sky & Talksport not an Official Everton Account..
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There's no reason to be in too big a hurry, but Carolina is not starting out fast so far. They have three interviews - Marc Ross, Dave Gettleman, and what I'd consider a courtesy interview for Brandon Beane - for their open GM job, and might be waiting for the playoffs to square up with another candidate.
Maybe it's the holiday. Maybe it's not really a situation where Rivera is in limbo. But, if a decision is to be made, apparently a lot will be riding on this Saturday conversation. It appears the GM situation may be riding on whether or not Rivera is allowed to stay - if not, it still appears to be holding for it. Richardson apparently setup a similar conversation with Marty Hurney the day he was fired, though it may not have been on Hurney's knowledge that the conversation was that in depth. You might consider it an interview for a job Rivera already has.
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I just worry that leaving Rivera in limbo will cost us a chance at a really good assistant like Bobby April.
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might - ideally you'd get in on more longevity. I think grabbing a guy like him or Dave Toub with an assistant head coach title can't hurt the resume', and two year contracts are standard so you know you have a shot at getting paid either way.
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Astonishingly enough, the world is not heaping praise on Israel from preventing a murderous dictator from developing nuclear weapons. I know that seems shocking to the readers of these pages but the IAF may have saved the world from Hezbollah getting their terrorist hands on functioning atomic weapons or at least nuclear material for making dirty bombs.
The Obama administration has offered no measurable mainstream commentary on this report although they are playing the "human rights" angle against the Assad regime in Syria. To say this administration behaves more like Jimmy Carter may in fact be an insult to Carter; he's acting worse sans a hostage crisis.
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Worker Action in Not-So "Center-Right†America:
Rock Island Reflections
I've never been comfortable with many pundits' tendency to describe the United States as a "center-right nation."[1] This description is appropriate when it comes to the United States' business class, its dominant corporate media, its two reigning political parties (both firmly dedicated to the combined and interrelated imperatives of empire, inequality, and thought-control. Incorporated) and its political class more broadly. "Center-right" may accurately reflect how many millions of Americans identify themselves on the limited ideological menu offered to them by MSNBC exit pollsters. But it doesn't fit very well with the interesting facts that:
*Twice as many Americans back more government services and spending (even if this means a tax increase) as the number who support fewer services and reduced spending (National Elections Survey, 2004).
*64 percent of Americans would pay higher taxes to guarantee health care for all U.S. citizens (CNN Opinion Research Poll, May 2007).
*69 percent of Americans think it is the responsibility of the federal government to provide health coverage to all U.S. citizens (Gallup Poll, 2006).
*80 percent of Americans support a government-mandated increase in the minimum wage (Associated Press/AOL Poll, December 2006).
*71 percent of Americans think that taxes on corporations are too low ( Gallup Poll, April 2007).
*66 percent of Americans think taxes on upper-income people are too low(Gallup Poll, April 2007).
*59 percent of Americans are favorable toward unions, with just 29 percent unfavorable ( Gallup Poll, 2006).
*52 percent of Americans generally side with unions in labor disputes. Just 34 percent side with management (Gallup Poll, 2006).
*A majority of American voters think that the United States' "most urgent moral question" is either greed and materialism" (33 percent) or "poverty and economic injustice" (31 percent). Just 16 percent identify abortion and 12 percent pick gay marriage as the nation's "most urgent moral question" (Zogby, 2004). Thus, nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of the population think that injustice and inequality are the nation's leading "moral issues."
*Just 15 percent of Americans think the U.S. should play "the leading role in the world" (Gallup Poll. February 2007)- a remarkable rejection of U.S. global hegemony and empire.
*Just 29 percent of Americans support the expansion of government spending on "defense." By contrast, 79 percent support increased spending on health care, 69 percent support increased spending on education, and 69 percent support increased spending on Social Security (Chicago Council on Foreign Relations [hereafter "CCFR"}, "Global Views,"2004).
*77 percent of Americans think the U.S. has the unilateral right to go to war only if the U.S. has strong evidence it is in imminent danger of being attacked (53 percent) or (24 percent)if the other country attacks first (CCFR, 2004).
*Two thirds (66 percent) of Americans think the US should be more willing to make international relations decisions within the UN even if this means the U.S. will sometimes have to go along with a policy that is not its first choice (CCFR, 2004).
*Fifty-nine percent of Americans favor dropping the veto power granted to the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, including the United States (CCFR, 2004).
* Just barely more than half of all Americans (and only one third of all Americans 18 to 29 years old) are sure that "capitalism is better than socialism" when it comes to how organize economic life (Rasmussen Reports, 2009).[2]
At the same time, the description of the U.S. as "a center-right nation" doesn't match numerous real-life experiences like my recent participation in a union-led protest against Wells Fargo Bank (WF) last Thursday afternoon in Rock Island, Illinois. Wells Fargo is the recipient of more than $25 billion worth of federal money this year - part of the not-so Temporary Assistance for Needy Banking and Insurance Parasites (TANBIP) program that has recently expanded along with unemployment and poverty rates (whose impact is worsened by a 1990s public family cash assistance "reform"/elimination that leading Democrats including Barack Obama champion as a great bipartisan policy success) across "America, best democracy that money can buy." WF is the bank that recently attempted to eliminate 4000 U.S. jobs by trying to liquidate Hartmarx, the Chicago-based clothing manufacturer that makes Barack Obama's suits.[3] WF was pressured by labor and progressive politicians to save those jobs by selling the company.
In Rock Island, Wells Fargo (WF) has recently pushed more than 100 workers at Quad City Die Casting (QCDC) into a race to save their jobs, health insurance, and pension benefits. Earlier this year, WF, flush with government assistance, announced that it would be pulling financing from QCDC, whose workers happen to be organized and represented by the progressive United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE Local 1174). The Quad Cities metropolitan area (consisting of Rock Island and Moline, Illinois along with Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa) stand to lose more than $ 6 million in wages and tax revenue.[4]
Adding insult to injury, WF has refused to guarantee the payment of vacation pay and extra wages owed the workers under their legally binding collective bargaining agreement.[5] August. According to QCDC managers, WF approves all company expenditures only on a week-to-week basis.
The UE, many ZNet readers probably know, is the same union that boldly occupied the North Side Chicago Republic Windows and Doors plant last December. That militant shop-floor action won a $1.75 million settlement for workers from an employer who attempted to abscond without making legally mandated severance, vacation, and back-wage payments and from that employer's tight-fisted financier, the leading federal bailout recipient Bank of America. The sit-down strike at Republic held national media attention for at least two days, receiving (consistent with my suspicion that the U.S. is NOT "a center-right nation") widespread popular support - it even compelled the "business liberal" Barack Obama [6], then president-elect, to voice support for the UE action - before it was knocked off the news cycle by the Rod Blagojevich scandal.[7]
Last Thursday's action, coordinated by the UE, begin with a brief union roadblock outside a WF branch office at 18th Avenue and 30th Street in Rock Island. More than 120 racially and ethnically diverse pickets (union members plus numerous community supporters) carried signs saying that WF is "Roadblock to Recovery" and chanted "Banks Get Bailed Out, We Get Sold Out." Twelve workers were very quickly and gently arrested a short (two minutes) and careful step into traffic.[8]
There was little animosity between the workers and the Rock Island police during the action. The penalties for the arrested workers came to nothing more than a $75 fine. There were no misdemeanor charges. "It's the same as a parking ticket," the leader officer in charge told me. "Look," the officer added, "we're union too." His sympathies were clearly with the workers - consistent with my sense that the U.S. populace is more center-left than center-right. The officer looked on with a smile as the arrested workers posed for a photograph holding up their little yellow "traffic obstruction" citations.
"First time arrested?" I said to one of the UE road-blockers, a young woman. "Yes," she said, "I'm glad we did it." It might seem small but her action was a major step for a good cause in a young life fortunate to have been touched by the special culture of solidarity that lay at the heart of the best aspects of America's forgotten and often fiercely contested labor history.
Automotive passers-by seemed highly sympathetic to the picket action. I heard and saw numerous motorists honk their horns and wave in approval. There was no negative feedback at all, as far as I could make out. I was unsurprised. Rock Island is an old time working-class town with a strong union and even distant Socialist history. It has been severely abused by the masters of capital for decades, especially since the onset of massive de-industrialization in the mid 1970s.
A young Iowa City radical I ran into later muttered about the action being "tepid" - you know, insufficiently radical and transgressive and the like. But the young radical also admitted that it wasn't her position to tell workers what to do. Quite right! Personally, I had the impression that UE Local 1174 is playing the situation quite well. Its workers are trying to keep their heads above water and save whatever employment chances and incomes as they can at present. It's a good move too stay on the right side of the union brothers and sisters in the police force. According to a union spokesperson I spoke with on the picket line, a Republic-style occupation is not out of the question in the future. Union and public pressure has convinced TANBIP recipient Wells Fargo to keep the QCDC plant open (to "fill orders") through late August. If no buyer can be found to keep 100 union jobs alive there, however, things could turn a bit nastier and Republic-style tactics could come into play. If so, it would be nice for the police to permit a workplace occupation last as long as possible. As my Iowa City comrades would surely agree, we need hundreds of long-lived sit-down strikes across the country.[9]
I am told by a Quad Cities lefty that the local television news coverage of the UE picket and roadblock was unsympathetic and otherwise "terrible."[10] Well, sure: corporate media owners and managers are from the same class as the owners and managers of Wells Fargo. Their contempt for ordinary working people and the cause of social justice is boundless and thoroughly predictable. Expecting them to accurately and fully report current events in unbiased ways is like expecting General Motors' company newspaper to accurately report on wage and shop-floor conditions and environmental impacts in and around its (shrinking) network of automobile plants. If dominant media is your concept of "the United States," then, yes, we are most definitely a "center right nation." In the real-life workplaces and communities of the country beneath and beyond the official representations in legislatures and on the business-run airwaves, however, things are rather different and more hopeful.
Paul Street, a onetime U.S. labor historian, is the author of many books, articles, speeches, and chapters. He can be reached at email@example.com
1. For a useful discussion and citations, see Media Matters, "Research: Conservatives Claim America is 'Center-Right, But Political Scientists Challenge Reliance on Voter Self-Identification," Media Matter for America (November 10, 2008), read online at http://mediamatters.org/research/200811100013
2. For more data and sources, see Katherine Adams and Charles Derber, The New Feminized Majority (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2008), pp. 67-75; Paul Street, "Americans' Progressive Opinion vs. 'The Shadow Cast on Society by Big Business,'" ZNet Sustainer Commentary (May 15, 2008), read at http://www.zmag.org/zspace/commentaries/3491.
3. Ed Tibbets, "Dispute Escalates as Wells Fargo Rejects Bid for Hartmarx," Quad City Times, May 29, 2009, read at http://www.qctimes.com/news/local/article_feea6846-4cb3-11de-bbf7-001cc4c03286.html; U.S. Congressman Phil Hare, "Hartmarx and Wells Fargo" (2009), read at http://hare.house.gov/?sectionid=255§iontree=30,228,255.
4. Robert Ginsburg, Ph.D, "Economic Impact of Quad City Die Casting to the Quad Cities Economy," Center for Work and Community Development (Chicago, Illinois), June 15, 2009.
5. United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, Charge Against High Ridge Partners, Successor/Assignee of Quad City Die Casting, U.S. National Labor Relations Board (July 7, 2009), detailing violations of National Labor Relations Act Sections 7 and 8 (a)(1), (3) and (5).
6. For a compelling portrait of Obama as emblematic of, and captive to, "business liberalism," see Kevin Baker, "Barack Hoover Obama: The Best and the Brightest Blow it Again," Harper's Magazine (July 2009).
7. Paul Street, "Two Chicago Stories: Hope and Shame," ZNet Sustainer Commentary (December 12, 2008), read online at http://www.zmag.org/zspace/commentaries/3709.
8. Pam Cunningham, reporter, "QC Die Casting Workers Arrested as Planned," WQAD TV (July 9, 2009): http://www.wqad.com/news/wqad-die-casting-arrest-070909,0,6663919.story
9. The Republic sit-down has yet to spark a wave of imitations but it is interesting to note that Wells Fargo-financed Hartmarx's Des Plaines Illinois workers - enrolled in Workers United local - voted to authorize a sit-down strike at their plant last May. See WBBM-CBS 2 Chicago, "Workers Approve Sit-In at Hartmarx Suit Factory" (May 11, 2009), read at http://cbs2chicago.com/local/hartmarx.workers.sitin.2.1006811.html. The threat of a Republic-style sit-own strike was certainly part of the equation compelling Wells Fargo to relent on its original plan to shut down the plant.
10. He may have seen the WQAD broadcast that is transcribed in Cunningham/reporter, "QC Die Casting Workers" (see note 8, above). The WQAD reporter seemed more than a little biased against the union in the following commentary: "The union representative said it's about the national economy because Wells Fargo got stimulus money. I asked what about the Rock Island city tax payers and the money used to make these arrests...Deb Johann a worker at QC Diecasting for 31 years says she doesn't know what she will do if she loses her job. It's the only job she has ever done. I asked her what would happen if this arrest was unsuccessful and she still lost her job. Would an arrest be worth ruining her currently spotless record? She said, 'I never thought of it as that. This just proves a point that the whole economy and the whole Quad Cities knows what Wells Fargo is doing to a small business'...There were eight Rock Island police officers assigned to the protest, and many were paid overtime to be there."
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Reponse to TimBy Street, Paul at Jul 16, 2009 10:02 AM |
"Pluralistic ignorance" describes something real I imagine. But it is predicated on atomization and fragmentation and isolation --- on the absence of shared experience and communication. It is a role of the historical Left to counter that with a culture of commonality and solidarity. As Katz and Allport coined their phrase in some academic office (I presume), leftists in workplaces and communitieis were starting to to do some of that counterring work in the U.S. and in the mid-1930s their efforts combined with the terriible and partially homogenizing impact of the Great Depression to spark some powerful U.S. working class movements that overcame "pluralistic ignorance" to some significant degree. The dance of solidarity and fragmentation continues to this day with the masters' media heavily invested in keeping the latter in the lead role and also of course in sustaining the Gramscian hegemony that Joel references.
Re: Worker Action in Not-So "Center-Right†America:By Shadwell, Stuart at Jul 14, 2009 23:59 PM |
Yeah, your right unless theres a union, it'd be better to defend the local businesses when it happens to them.
pluralistic ignoranceBy Connolly, Tim at Jul 14, 2009 20:52 PM |
just wanted to bring up this concept defined in wikipedia
In social psychology, pluralistic ignorance, a term coined by Daniel Katz and Floyd H. Allport in 1931[1], describes "a situation where a majority of group members privately reject a norm, but assume (incorrectly) that most others accept it...It is, in Krech and Crutchfield's (1948, pp. 388–89) words, the situation where 'no one believes, but everyone thinks that everyone believes.'"[2]. This, in turn, provides support for a norm that may be, in fact, disliked by most people.
it is a major of function of such as the punditocracy to tell us what "Americans think" and hence feed this ignorance.
I think we're talking hegemony here. HEGEMONY - The expression of the interests and world-views of a particular social group or class, so expressed as to pass for the interest and worldview of the whole of society. It has been my experience that many people feel affirmed upon hearing the kind of statistics that Paul quotes Maybe we need to supplement the media with tee shirts that say things like: "69% of the American public think heathcare is a right"! |
Lords of Michighan AvenueBy Shadwell, Stuart at Jul 14, 2009 10:56 AM |
Border's on Michighan avenue is ripe for a sit in although I can't really do anything about it. There is no union and they've been really good about transfering people, but the landlords raised the rent on it 100 percent which was a large part of the reason for the chain's decision to close the branch next January. It just sounds like it should be illeagle to raise the rent that much at one time. My sister in laws boyfreind used to live in Chicago and participated in a Michighan Avenue survey and got to meet some of the people "who own Michighan avenue," an experience he could only sum up as "gross." The survey also revealed that dowtown parking meters, recently auctioned off to private interests by Daley for the next 75 years for a measley 2 million, brought in something like 2 million in revenue for the city per parking meter. Border's may not have the wholesomeness of a local bookstore, but many customers who live in nearby are very upset.
Stuart, is there another Border's in town? Sounds like a similar story on Border's in other cities. They put more than one in, drive out smaller bookstores then close all but one store.
on pollsBy McGehee, Michael at Jul 13, 2009 12:45 PM |
to consider how much more to the left and radical that they would be if important and relevant information was more popularly known.
take health care. despite an abundance of ignorance, a good majority still favors universal health care.
and when considering the wars or the environment or corporate influence or campaign finance corruption, it gets better / worse (depending if youre a have or have not - for the status quo or a revolution).


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Nodaway County Prosecuting Attorney Robert L. Rice said Wednesday that he was making the request after CNN aired interviews this week with the alleged victim, Daisy Coleman, who says she was raped when she was 14, and her mother.
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Rice spoke one day Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder made a public appeal for a grand jury investigation into the case.
The prosecuting attorney said that witnesses in the case invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and declined to cooperate. Rice added that he couldn't provide reporters with court documents showing the witnesses' refusal to cooperate because those records are closed.
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