Live Mesh Goes Mobile
Wednesday, den 23. July 2008
Yesterday, the Live Mesh team surprised everyone by opening up the service to all and today they’ve gone mobile. That’s right – it’s official – the mobile portal is now available at m.mesh.com. From this mobile website, you can access all your meshified folders and files from your browser and read the news feed about [...]
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Make Money with Xbox Live Community Games
Wednesday, den 23. July 2008Turn your XNA projects into cash with Xbox Live Community Games. Coming holiday 2008, Xbox Live Community Games will give XNA game developers (that’s YOU!) the opportunity to publish and sell their projects to millions of gamers worldwide via the Xbox Live Marketplace. Here’s how it works. XNA game [...]
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It’s Official: Get Netflix on your Xbox 360
Tuesday, den 15. July 2008
This morning we announced support for Netflix service as being built-in in an upcoming software update to 360 service. As C|Net points out, there have been some workarounds for this in the meantime, but this solution will allow you to stream natively and without a dedicated Media Center PC. [...]
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Get Vista’s Best Features in XP
Tuesday, den 13. May 2008
Despite the fact that most of you prefer XP to Vista and would rather Microsoft extended XP’s shelf-life, several new and improved features available in Vista would be great to have in XP. This new functionality may not be enough to get you to switch to Vista, but that [...]
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Delay the messages you send from Microsoft Outlook
Wednesday, den 30. April 2008
Make it seem like you’re sending email when you’re really playing hooky with Outlook’s built-in “defer delivery” rule. Tech blogger Dennis O’Reilly runs down how to set up Outlook to delay sending messages for a certain amount of time (like half an hour) automatically. You can also set individual messages to be sent on certain [...]
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Microsoft completes Danger acquisition, creates new Premium Mobile Experiences division (Zune Phone?)
Tuesday, den 15. April 2008
Can you say Zune Phone?
Microsoft’s just announced that its $500M buyout of Sidekick maker Danger is complete, and that it’s rolling the new team into its own unit, the Premium Mobile Experiences division. Ready to follow the chain of corporate command? PMX is under the Mobile Communications Business unit at MS, which itself falls under [...]
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Twitter App for Windows Mobile
Monday, den 7. April 2008Twobile is a brand-new app, still in beta, designed to be a Twitter client for Windows Mobile devices. The app is small - only 200K - so keeping it always running shouldn’t hog up too much memory. The Twobile app offers many different features, each in a separate tab. You can switch between your friends [...]
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Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Ready for Prime Time
Wednesday, den 19. March 2008Windows Vista only: Microsoft is releasing/has released Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to Windows Update. The update, which promises several improvements to Vista, is available either through Windows Update or through direct downloads from Microsoft (linked below). While it seems that SP1 is taking its sweet time showing up for many [...]
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Microsoft: Vista SP1 ready for download
Wednesday, den 19. March 2008Well, Amazon was at least half right. As the retailer predicted, Microsoft did make Windows Vista Service Pack 1 available for download on Tuesday via Windows Update and on its Web site.
Still unclear is when it will start being available on retail shelves. Amazon said it will start shipping boxed copies with SP1 [...]
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Zune 3: Zune 3 Details
Thursday, den 13. March 2008
Microsoft France’s Francois Ruault seems to be a bit more talkative on the Zune platform than he should be, inadvertently announcing that the third-generation Zune is going to launch during the holiday season of 2009 (which is kind of obvious if you look at the previous release schedule). What’s interesting to EU readers is that [...]
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Windows Live FolderShare beta
Tuesday, den 11. March 2008Today the Windows Live FolderShare team launched their new blog. Along with it comes an all-new version of FolderShare that includes better performance and a better SysTray. FolderShare is a cloud storage service that lets you sync your Favorites, Files, & documents. You can share them with family and friends, and [...]
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Classic Tetris
Sunday, den 9. March 2008If you’re looking for a fun and retro way to kill a few minutes this weekend, The Tetris Game offers up a simple freeware version of the classic game. There’s no frills here, but anybody who’s got a craving for that four-block goodness will probably find this rendition instantly satisfying.
The controls are mapped to your [...]
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Report: Google, Microsoft, and two media companies bidding on Digg
Friday, den 7. March 2008
If every blog rumor were to be believed, social news site Digg would have been bought a dozen times over by now, so take the latest one with the requisite grain of salt.
TechCrunch reported early on Friday that four companies are in the running to place bids on Digg–Microsoft, Google, and two unidentified "media companies"–and [...]
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The Ultimate Link List of Everything MIX!
Thursday, den 6. March 2008
At the MIX08 conference, a lot of new, great stuff was announced, here is one place to download everything and try out the sites that were featured (like Hard Rock’s Memorabilia). The Ultimate Link List is here! Here we go.
Downloads:
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008 (x86)
Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008 [...]
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Building Your Own Deep Zoom
Thursday, den 6. March 2008
In Silverlight 2, one of the new features is the support for Deep Zoom technology, which allows you to quickly zoom in and out on really large images. If you haven’t already done so, you’ve got to check out our video on this here. Or just visit the Hard Rock Memorabilia site here: http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/
So now [...]
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Try out IE8 Now with the Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit
Wednesday, den 5. March 2008New and exciting features
Activities
Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage. Users typically copy and paste from one webpage to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do.
Activities typically involve two types of scenarios: "look up" information within a webpage or "send" web content to [...]
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Microsoft shows IE8 at Mix
Wednesday, den 5. March 2008
LAS VEGAS–Microsoft offered its first public demonstration of Internet Explorer 8 on Wednesday, a prospect that had general manager Dean Hachamovitch struggling to figure out what to cover.
“I’m so excited that I had to figure out how to focus,” he told the crowd. The marketing folks naturally suggested he point to three major advances, but [...]
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Microsoft goes public with Office Live Workspace beta
Tuesday, den 4. March 2008
Regular readers of this blog know that I don’t believe that Google Apps is a viable alternative to Microsoft’s Office.
While Microsoft is not releasing a completely online version of its Office on Tuesday, it is releasing Office Live Workspace, an online-collaboration tool for Office that works in cooperation with the desktop application suite.
Workspace enables users [...]
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Microsoft Silverlight coming to mobile devices this year
Tuesday, den 4. March 2008
Microsoft’s Silverlight browser plug-in will be bringing videos and other rich media to Nokia smartphones later this year.
The two companies on Tuesday at Microsoft’s Mix ‘08 conference are scheduled to announce that Microsoft will write a version of Silverlight for Nokia’s Series 60 (S60) smartphone software that runs on Symbian OS. The software, which [...]
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Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope
Saturday, den 1. March 2008The WorldWide Telescope is a computer program created by Microsoft, expected to be released to public in Spring 2008, which allows its users to view outer space, much like Stellarium. It was announced at the the TED Conference in Monterey. Users are able to pan around outer space and zoom as far in to [...]
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