Comments on: The eight immutable laws of traveling light

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:07:51 +0000

I mostly travel to 3rd world countries around Asia and Africa, here’s few tips from my experiences:
- try sandals instead of shoes (weather permitting) – it saves on weight and space (fewer socks)
- netbooks are great, try to use them to charge other equipment via USB (ipods and some phones are OK, cameras usually aren’t); search the net (eBay, Brando) for smaller AC adapter for the netbook
- clothes can be washed locally, so try not to overpack (happens easily with underwear, socks etc)
- jeans is heavy and takes ages to dry after washing, try lighter trousers
- try a small headlamp instead of a torch (petzl’s zipka is great)
- swiss army knives seem great, but all those extra tools are rarely used/useful, try a simpler folding knife

By: Kim_Office_Team

Kim_Office_Team — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:33:24 +0000

@Michael – thanks for your feedback and thoughts. I’ll definitely pass along to the appropriate folks. We definitely striving to keep our eyes and ears to the ground.

Cheers,
KIM
MSFT Office Live Outreach Team

By: Michael W.

Michael W. — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:53:30 +0000

LOL at corporate spam. But if MSFT wants to compete with Google Docs, I’m all for it. I don’t particularly like Google Docs and I’m open to a review of MSFT’s alternative.

Hey Kim, please let someone in the appropriate department know that some of us think Win XP is actually the new Linux for netbooks – lean and mean, and a lot fewer headaches than Linux (plus there is no iTunes for Linux).

I admit that I like some of the bells and whistles on Win7 Starter (yes, even starter has some more bells and whistles than WinXP) BUT clearly battery life is better on WinXP than on Win7 and it is still slightly faster. I hope MSFT continues to push some of the new features in Win7 back to WinXP – particularly the improved video and improved use of SSD drives.

(Or in the alternative fine tune Win7 a little more, and at least let us change the background color in Starter for heavens sake!)

PS I think it’s good you are doing viral marketing like this but the post still sounded a little “canned”.

By: Kim_Office_Team

Kim_Office_Team — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:41:57 +0000

Great list! A note on the paperless thing, there’s a great FREE service called Office Live Workspaces, which can really help. You can upload, access, edit, and share documents all with just an internet connection. If you’re traveling around, it’s a handy tool in an internet cafe. No need to worry about losing your USB flash drive.

Learn more about it here: http://workspace.officelive.com/en-us/.

Hope this helps! Happy travels.

Cheers,
KIM
MSFT Office Live Outreach Team

By: sharon

sharon — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:16:16 +0000

Believe it or not, I have pictures to prove it, this was back in 82 when I went to Monaco with my art work and had lunch with Princess Grace. I agree about Monaco. Very expensive and not too much to actually see except expensive shops and food and the casino. I spent most of my time in N Italy and S France. Never been to Scandanavia.