The preview of Windows 10 is available for download now from http://preview.windows.com. The standard reminder applies–this is for testing. It’s a beta operating system, with all the “We will not be blamed if you lose it.” that implies. The real thing isn’t this, and the shipping date isn’t announced yet.

After only a quick install and some exploring, this looks like what a hybrid interface should have been. The interface-formerly-known-as-Metro, or ‘live tiles’, or the ‘modern desktop’, hasn’t shown up at all. Apps are available from the desktop, and sizable, and they don’t break if your local sign-in to the computer was a local account–you can sign into them with a Microsoft account individually.

So far, so good.

Here’s a screen capture of bad software design–sometimes you just can’t go online to find out why you’re offline.

OK, if the Internet is down, it’s down. It’s not down for a program, and up for the online help files. OK, I get it–online help files, as part of software design, are easy for a software publisher to update, and there’s value in that. But down is down, and bad planning is bad planning.

Graphcat, the ultimate photo cataloger for WordPerfect for the past two decades, has once again been upgraded, and now supports WordPerfect X7, along with Windows 8.1, in both 64-bit and 32-bit versions. The installer is updated as well, and auto-detects all versions of WordPerfect, and adds Graphcat to any or all of them. Corel released WordPerfect X7 in April, and added PDF form creation options.

Graphcat creates editable photo albums. You can adjust just about anything in the catalog, including the size of images, borders, centering, naming, page size, and more. And the catalogs are editable, using WordPerfect graphic styles, so that the entire catalog of images can be resized at once, or have nearly any image option changed for every thumbnail in the album at once.

Graphcat requires any version of WordPerfect, now including WordPerfect Office X7.