Tag Archives : Microsoft

Microsoft will shortly begin a new microblogging service named Office Talk, which aims to employees to briefly share information, such as in Twitter. As said in the Microsoft Office Labs blog, this concept will be to test the basic capabilities of microblogging in business environments, enabling employees to express their thoughts, activities and information that may be valuable for anyone who may [...]

Everyone is in the holiday mood…. not to mention all the committed Christmas dinners and lunches.  Microsoft wants you to make your windows 7 also get into a holiday mood by releasing new themes. Microsoft has released not one, not two but four new themes for Windows 7. If you’re interested, visit http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/personalize to download the themes [...]

In my earlier post, I told you that the beta for Microsoft Outlook was releasing next month and now at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles the beta of Office 2010 was officially made available. This is Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 (14.0.4536.1000) and can be downloaded for free at http://microsoft.com/2010/en/. To download the beta registration is required, [...]

The Microsoft Translator web page widget allows you to bring real-time, in-place translations to your web site. Users can see your pages in their own language, without having to go to a separate translation web site, and share your page with friends in multiple languages. Microsoft Translator widget was introduced earlier this year at the MIX09 conference in Las Vegas. The widget can be placed on [...]

Mozilla announced that the recent update of the .NET Framework Assistant which was updated during the recent auto updated had serious security vulnerability, and Microsoft is recommending that all users disable the add-on. The popup announcing this said that the ‘following addons have been known to cause stability or security issues with Firefox and hence will be disabled.’ Thanks, Mozilla [...]

I’ve always been surprised by the Apple terminologies for their new operating systems. First the tiger, Leopard and now a Snow leopard. Lets keep the Apple innovation aside and look at some of the new improvements from MAC OS Leopard to the new Snow leopard which is making so much news. Here are nine advantages of the new Snow leopard: Its 64 baby – Fast, secure and lots of memory! Every [...]

It’s already been more than a year since Microsoft’s deal to outright acquire Yahoo…. Now, the focus is on Microsoft’s new search engine – Bing – becoming the search provider on Yahoo.com, which would combine to give the companies a more formidable rival to Google (Google), at least in terms of market share and ad inventory. AdAge reports that a deal “is likely to be announced [...]

Microsoft My Phone pre-registration opens; Steve Ballmer’s press conference from the Mobile World Congress live! Earlier this month, Microsoft made its MyPhone website live, now the company has started sign up to get on the waiting list for access to the beta. The service, code named “Skybox”, will offer cloud services for mobile phone users. Official news of Microsoft My Phone won’t come [...]

New Microsoft ad “I’m a PC and I’m seven years old”; 7-year old Alexa makes panoramic photo Earlier this month, we saw an ad featuring, 4–1/2 year’s Kylie using Windows Live Photo Gallery to make a picture of her pet fish Dorothy “better,” then send it off to her mom and dad. If you missed it, here it is again: A new Microsoft ad now shows seven year old Alexa, who snaps some photos [...]

As many of my readers know, the user experience (UX) for OpenID has been a source of confusion and an impediment to broader adoption. That gave rise to an OpenID UX Summit a few weeks ago, hosted by Yahoo and attended by Google, Microsoft, MySpace, AOL, Plaxo, Facebook and many others. It also was a major focus of sessions and late-night discussion at last week’s Internet Identity Workshop. [...]