
The United States, France, and Germany itself had already committed to send infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine, a weapons system that the lay person cannot even distinguish from tanks.

The European Parliament voted in favour of an EU initiative in this regard in October 2022. The Polish and Finnish governments had publicly signalled that they would be ready to supply Leopard 2 tanks in conjunction with other allies. Britain had already announced that it would send 14 of its Challenger main battle tanks to Ukraine. The curious part was that no one was asking Germany to act alone. “We always act together with our allies and friends,” Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, insisted. But it worried about escalation and the reaction from Moscow, particularly given Germany’s troubled history with Russia, and so refused to move first. The government in Berlin did not precisely disagree. Ukraine said it needed Western tanks – and the German-made Leopards were the tank that best fit the bill. The West had collectively committed to support Ukraine in its war with Russia. The issue of sending Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine roiled German and European politics for months. Europeans can become a stronger and more independent part of the Atlantic alliance by developing independent capacity to support Ukraine and acquiring greater military capabilities.

#MICROSOFT OFFICE 2008 LION COMPATIBILITY UPDATE#
The Microsoft Office team is assuring users that they’re “working hard” to bring Auto Save, Versioning, and full-screen mode to their applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, and Powerpoint are the biggies), but admit that the update may take a month or two before it lands on desktops. Otherwise, you can expect some weird window sizing issues, and other small bugs. Issues have been acknowledged with Lion, and the biggest one right now is that Outlook currently can’t import your old emails from Mail. Business users reliant on Communicator can already find an update that fixes crashes on Lion, with the main suite of applications being prepared for an update soon.

Microsoft has posted a couple updates on their blog about Microsoft Office compatibility with Lion, stating that Microsoft Office 2004 will never (ever!) work with Lion since it was built for PowerPCs, but that the current version of Microsoft Office is in the process of being updated to fix bugs and issues.
