I’ve received word via e-mail that my express upgrade to Vista Office Premium has shipped. I’m a touch confused, because the note says that it’s shipped, and warns that it could be three weeks before it appears. I’ve tried to think of a modern shipping method that could take three weeks to travers any distance within the continental United States. The only thing I can come up with is that they’re shipping it on its own barge. When it arrives at a Florida port, it will transfer to a rail car, and then to a truck for final shipping to my office. I’m looking forward to the shipping label.

You’d think they could spring for UPS…

Anyway, three weeks gives me plenty of time to get my files backed up before it arrives. I’ll be blogging on the process, which I hope will be smoother than I dare expect. This should be an adventure–sort of like operating system BASE jumping. Let the climbing begin.

Categories: General computing, Software