With my tracking software, one of the capabilities is the ability to interface to Microsoft MapPoint. I found another program that I have not yet installed – Microsoft MapPoint. This is a program that is hard to get in Australia thanks to the fact that there are almost no Australian maps on the CD. ANyway my copy came as a download from Microsoft in ISO format. Therefore I have two options… Burn it to CD or use an emulator for a CD-ROM.
So I did the Latter. Microsoft has released this piece of software called VirtualCD. You can find it here. I am not sure on the exact link on Microsoft itself, but this one will work. Since I do not like the idea of emulating a CD on a DVD, I am now moving the two ISO files onto my HDD from the DVD so I can install MapPoint.
Following on from the meeting this morning I had a call from a client in WA who has been testing a similar piece of software – and he left me with a bunch of stuff that needs to be fixed up. The two lists are almost identical so there is only one lot of work for me to do…
The client this morning was interesting… They brought a laptop identical to my Old laptop. It was strange having these two almost identical machines sitting on a desk next to each other… Anyway time for me to get some more work done…