It’s hard not to get quite excited about all the reminiscing and celebrations focused on the 40th anniversary of the first moon landings.

Some of us are just that little bit too young to remember them happening, while others were born many years after the event and only have archived footage and Wikipedia entries to help shape their opinion.

Now the man behind the first official NASA documentary charting the 1969 Apollo 11 mission has re-released his work. Dubbed Moonwalk One, the director’s cut, Theo Kamecke’s film has been restored to deliver HD-like film and sound quality.

The video can be viewed below.

In our Man on the moon feature, we look at the technology that was around back in 1969 and how it compares to the space tech we have today.

Hardly a day goes by without Gary McKinnon’s name being mentioned. If you don’t know who Gary McKinnon is, many people would assume you’re a bit detached from the real world or living in a vacuum. Or just not interested in one of the most high-profile hacking cases in recent years.

To recap, he was the man who hacked into the pentagon. He’s admitted what he’s done, but the legal wrangles continue as to whether he should be tried for his crime in the UK or US. Clearly the latter will be less kind to him in terms of sentencing, if kind indeed be a word you can use when it comes to prisons.

This week, the Conservative Party got involved. They’ve got a view on everything else, so it’s no surprise that they would add their say to McKinnon-gate too.

Indeed, according to media reports, today the opposition plans to use a Commons Vote to show their displeasure in a possible extradition order being granted.

“The information that must be provided by both the United States and the United Kingdom is effectively the same. The United Kingdom must demonstrate ‘probable cause’ to the United States courts, while the United States must demonstrate ‘reasonable suspicion’ to ours,” the Home Office claimed in a statement published by the Guardian.

“Extradition is a key crime-fighting measure in our increasingly globalised world and, within what the law permits, we give maximum assistance to all of our extradition partners.”

As one door closes, another one opens. Or so they say. Exactly who they are remains a bit of a mystery, but I digress…

This week, Microsoft unveiled the technical preview of Office 2010, its shiny new all-singing, all-dancing Office Suite. I won’t go into the details of the goodies it contains in this post. Instead, you’ll have to take a look at our first look review.

Amid the fanfare at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference for the new arrival, a more muted goodbye tune was played for the Office of yesteryear. For today marked the final day of support for Office 2000.

You’d be hard pushed to find any businesses actually using this version of Office today. Mainstream support ended in June 2004 and, as of today, according to Microsoft’s Office product lifecycle FAQ page extended support is also off the menu. But, nonetheless, online self-help support is still available and, at the very least, we have our fond memories.

The software suite was officially launched on June 7 1999 by Steve Ballmer.

At the time, he said: “Office 2000 unleashes the power of the web work style, the most efficient way to work with business information and collaborate with others… The new Office web-collaboration services announced today will allow users in both large and small businesses to benefit from the web work style, regardless of their web server infrastructure.”

It was all part of Microsoft’s ‘Knowledge workers without limits’ vision. At the time it was quite innovative as the limits were a lot lower than they are today. And business users were certainly a lot less demanding of their software back then.

Office 2000, we bid you farewell.