From Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering ....
In addition to the Office 2010 Technology Guarantee, were excited to confirm that Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 are on schedule and will release to manufacturing (RTM) next month.
For businesses, we will launch the 2010 set of products, including Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010, and Project 2010 worldwide on May 12. To find out more about the Worldwide Business Launch, visit http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/proof/pages/2010-launch-events.aspx .
For consumers, Office 2010 will be available online and on retail shelves this June. Until then, you can get the Office 2010 beta at www.office.com/beta .
Sunday, March 07, 2010
SharePoint 2010 release dates
Friday, March 05, 2010
Hungry Beast ... Meet Google
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Give with Bing
For every 10 searches made, Bing.com will donate 5p to Sport Relief 2010, enabling you, and your friends and family, to raise money just by searching with Bing until the end of March.
Monday, March 01, 2010
SharePoint Productivity Hub
The Productivity Hub is a SharePoint Server 2007 site collection that comes packed with over 300 pieces of content, including videos, documents and PowerPoint slides. This gives you a great start at building a learning community behind your firewall.
The Hub centralizes Microsoft end user training content while providing a great use case for using SharePoint Server throughout your organization. It removes the need for you to have to find, centralize and publish Microsofts free end user training to an internal site.
You can customize the Hub to fit your branding and needs. The flexibility and rich feature set of SharePoint Server 2007 allows you to add web parts, remove web parts, and add your own content to the Hub.
Download
The Hub centralizes Microsoft end user training content while providing a great use case for using SharePoint Server throughout your organization. It removes the need for you to have to find, centralize and publish Microsofts free end user training to an internal site.
You can customize the Hub to fit your branding and needs. The flexibility and rich feature set of SharePoint Server 2007 allows you to add web parts, remove web parts, and add your own content to the Hub.
Download
Thursday, February 18, 2010
HTC HD2 - a Windows Mobile better than the iPhone ??
The HTC HD2 - ths first Windows Mobile phone with a capacitive touch screen, and the glass display measures 4.3". The HD2 runs Windows Mobile 6.5 with HTC's Sense UI which is their new version of TouchFLO 3D. It has a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, 488 megs RAM, a 5 MP autofocus camera with dual LED flash, WiFi, Bluetooth and a GPS.
More expert reviews
DigitalVersus Score 10
With a powerful capacitive touchscreen and an intuitive user interface that's attractive and fast, the HTC HD2 is clearly a star at the end of 2009. This is a multifunction phone that has as much to offer professionals as it does to ordinary consumers, something which is increasingly rare in the world of smartphones. More
Mobile Choice UK Score 10
The best Windows Mobile handset we've laid our hands on. There's so much going on under the bonnet of this eye-catching device it's frightening. More
Stuff.tv
HTC's Sense sheen and sharpened multimedia skills mean the HD2 is well placed to battle the smartphone big guns More
Best Mobile Contracts
Verdict The HTC HD2 has the largest touchscreen of any smartphone in the current market and this offers a lot of pluses. You can view images on the screen in bright colours and the on-screen keyboard is so comfortable to use, in both portrait and landscape views, that texting, emailing and writing documents are effortless. The phone also has some great features which can be accessed from the mammoth screen, including a 5-megapixel camera, FM radio, GPS, Google Maps,... More
What Hi-Fi? Score 8
It certainly has an immediate impact. If you're after something a bit different from an iPhone or BlackBerry, the HD2 is well worth a look More
Information provided by TestFreaks.com
More expert reviewsDigitalVersus Score 10
With a powerful capacitive touchscreen and an intuitive user interface that's attractive and fast, the HTC HD2 is clearly a star at the end of 2009. This is a multifunction phone that has as much to offer professionals as it does to ordinary consumers, something which is increasingly rare in the world of smartphones. More
Mobile Choice UK Score 10
The best Windows Mobile handset we've laid our hands on. There's so much going on under the bonnet of this eye-catching device it's frightening. More
Stuff.tv
HTC's Sense sheen and sharpened multimedia skills mean the HD2 is well placed to battle the smartphone big guns More
Best Mobile Contracts
Verdict The HTC HD2 has the largest touchscreen of any smartphone in the current market and this offers a lot of pluses. You can view images on the screen in bright colours and the on-screen keyboard is so comfortable to use, in both portrait and landscape views, that texting, emailing and writing documents are effortless. The phone also has some great features which can be accessed from the mammoth screen, including a 5-megapixel camera, FM radio, GPS, Google Maps,... More
What Hi-Fi? Score 8
It certainly has an immediate impact. If you're after something a bit different from an iPhone or BlackBerry, the HD2 is well worth a look More
Information provided by TestFreaks.com
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Outlook - the hub for social networking
Two announcements re the Outlook Social Connector - the set of new features that bring together communications history, contact information, and professional and social networking information into the Outlook experience.
- The LinkedIn download for the Outlook Social Connector is available today at http://www.LinkedIn.com/outlook.
- Integrations with Facebook and Myspace are on the horizon
Monday, February 15, 2010
Windows Phone 7 Series - Office Hub
Today at Mobile World Congress 2010, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer introduced the next generation of Windows Phones, Windows Phone 7 Series.
The new interface also has a series of 'hubs', which bring together the most important related content from the web, applications and services into a single view. The six hubs are people, pictures, games, marketplace, music and office.
The new interface also has a series of 'hubs', which bring together the most important related content from the web, applications and services into a single view. The six hubs are people, pictures, games, marketplace, music and office.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Halo Reach - Once More Unto The Breach
Halo: Reach is poised to become the definitive Halo and it's Bungies most ambitious game yet. Get your early, inside look with this brand new ViDoc.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Dip into SharePoint - free private trial site
ICS Solutions are providing Dip into SharePoint 2010 - this is access to a free private trial site to simplify the evaluation of SharePoint 2010. Furthemore, there is access to over 600 items of additional vetted and categorised items that will further assist in the evaluation and deployment process.
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Free Silverlight eLearning Courseware player
Point8020 have decided to give their Silverlight eLearning Courseware player away for free. It allows you to display videos and other training resources (such as PPTs, PDFs, Docs, etc in a nice format like the following: http://www.point8020.com/SharePointEndUserTraining.aspx )
The free software is called Point8020.CourseViewer and you can grab it from:
http://www.point8020.com/services.aspx
The free software is called Point8020.CourseViewer and you can grab it from:
http://www.point8020.com/services.aspx
Thursday, January 28, 2010
SharePoint 2010 VM Download
Want to demonstrate the latest beta of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 in an information worker scenario to customers? Download the two newest virtual machines (VM) with pre-configured versions of Office 2010 Beta and SharePoint 2010 Beta from the Microsoft Download Center.
In order to run this demo you will need the following hardware:
- Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role enabled
- Intel VT or AMD-V capable processor
- 8 GB or more RAM
- 50 GB of NTFS-formatted hard disk space required for install
Download
In order to run this demo you will need the following hardware:
- Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role enabled
- Intel VT or AMD-V capable processor
- 8 GB or more RAM
- 50 GB of NTFS-formatted hard disk space required for install
Download
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
SharePoint eMagazine
SharePoint eMagazine ... lots of great SharePoint 2010 content .
Thursday, January 14, 2010
KODU Game Lab download
KODU is a visual programming language made specifically for creating games. It is designed to be accessible for children and enjoyable for anyone.
Originally designed as a learning tool for youngsters using Xbox 360, KODU is now available in a public beta for the PC.
KODU download
Originally designed as a learning tool for youngsters using Xbox 360, KODU is now available in a public beta for the PC.
KODU download
Thursday, January 07, 2010
2010 CES Keynote Address
Watch video of Steve Ballmer and Robbie Bach delivering the opening keynote address for CES 2010.
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Free End-User Training - SharePoint 2010
From Point8020 ...
50 end-user/site admin training videos for SharePoint 2010. The training is completely free, and configured into a 9-module course at:
http://www.point8020.com/SharePointEndUserTraining.aspx
They plan to extend this by RTM to include approximately 250 end-user videos, effectively covering every single task an end-user or site admin performs in SharePoint 2010.
50 end-user/site admin training videos for SharePoint 2010. The training is completely free, and configured into a 9-module course at:
http://www.point8020.com/SharePointEndUserTraining.aspx
They plan to extend this by RTM to include approximately 250 end-user videos, effectively covering every single task an end-user or site admin performs in SharePoint 2010.
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Windows 7 - God Mode
Go to your desktop, create new folder and call it ...
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
... yes you must name it with the full stop and guid.
update - try these ...
{00C6D95F-329C-409a-81D7-C46C66EA7F33}
{0142e4d0-fb7a-11dc-ba4a-000ffe7ab428}
{025A5937-A6BE-4686-A844-36FE4BEC8B6D}
{05d7b0f4-2121-4eff-bf6b-ed3f69b894d9}
{1206F5F1-0569-412C-8FEC-3204630DFB70}
{15eae92e-f17a-4431-9f28-805e482dafd4}
{17cd9488-1228-4b2f-88ce-4298e93e0966}
{1D2680C9-0E2A-469d-B787-065558BC7D43}
{1FA9085F-25A2-489B-85D4-86326EEDCD87}
{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}
{241D7C96-F8BF-4F85-B01F-E2B043341A4B}
{4026492F-2F69-46B8-B9BF-5654FC07E423}
{62D8ED13-C9D0-4CE8-A914-47DD628FB1B0}
{78F3955E-3B90-4184-BD14-5397C15F1EFC}
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
... yes you must name it with the full stop and guid.
update - try these ...
{00C6D95F-329C-409a-81D7-C46C66EA7F33}
{0142e4d0-fb7a-11dc-ba4a-000ffe7ab428}
{025A5937-A6BE-4686-A844-36FE4BEC8B6D}
{05d7b0f4-2121-4eff-bf6b-ed3f69b894d9}
{1206F5F1-0569-412C-8FEC-3204630DFB70}
{15eae92e-f17a-4431-9f28-805e482dafd4}
{17cd9488-1228-4b2f-88ce-4298e93e0966}
{1D2680C9-0E2A-469d-B787-065558BC7D43}
{1FA9085F-25A2-489B-85D4-86326EEDCD87}
{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}
{241D7C96-F8BF-4F85-B01F-E2B043341A4B}
{4026492F-2F69-46B8-B9BF-5654FC07E423}
{62D8ED13-C9D0-4CE8-A914-47DD628FB1B0}
{78F3955E-3B90-4184-BD14-5397C15F1EFC}
Saturday, December 12, 2009
EntityCube - Microsoft Research
EntityCube is a research prototype for exploring object-level search technologies, which automatically summarizes the Web for entities (such as people, locations and organizations) with a modest web presence.
Steve Ballmer
In the News
Steve Ballmer
In the News
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Bing Maps beta - with Photosynth and Silverlight
Bing Maps is launching features that give users a new view of the planet, including a Streetside and enhanced aerial view. The new features incorporate key Microsoft research and technology such as Photosynth and Silverlight.
http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/
http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 R2 - November 2009 CTP
Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 code name "R2" November 2009 Community Technical Preview is now available ...
Download
Download
Thursday, November 19, 2009
SharePoint 2010 Public Beta - Download
SharePoint 2010 Beta is now available. Download today!
Next Wave in Business Productivity
Today, at PDC in Los Angeles, Microsoft announced the public beta release of Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010, Project 2010, Outlook Social Connector, Office Web Apps for business customers, and Office Mobile 2010.
Monday, November 16, 2009
SharePoint / Office 2010 Beta 2 download - on MSDN & TechNet
Microsoft have posted SharePoint / Office (Professional Plus) 2010 Beta 2 on MSDN & TechNet subscriber download areas.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Removing ghost Network Adapters from VHDs
Can happen when you recreate Virtual Machines from the VHD files (rather than export/import).
Solution:
At a command prompt, enter the following:
set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
start devmgmt.msc
Click Show hidden devices on the View menu in Device Manager.
The ghost NICs then appear and can be uninstalled.
Solution:
At a command prompt, enter the following:
set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
start devmgmt.msc
Click Show hidden devices on the View menu in Device Manager.
The ghost NICs then appear and can be uninstalled.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
SharePoint 2010 Developer videos / presentations
From channel 9 ...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Microsoft Access 2010 - The Access Show
The latest news about Microsoft Access 2010 from Channel 9 ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Microsoft Facebook SDK
Microsoft has released a set of .NET libraries for the Facebook Platform.
Monday, November 09, 2009
Exchange 2010 - The New Efficiency
At TechEd Europe in Berlin, Microsoft announced the worldwide general availability of Exchange 2010. This release marks a significant step in our ongoing efforts to fully embrace software-plus-services.
http://www.thenewefficiency.com/
http://www.thenewefficiency.com/
Thursday, November 05, 2009
SkyDrive Explorer
SkyDrive Explorer is a free, easy-to-use, but very powerful extension for Windows Explorer. With SkyDrive Explorer you can make any every-day operations with your documents from Microsoft Live SkyDrive service (25 GB of free storage space) using Windows Explorer, as if they were on your computer.
http://www.skydriveexplorer.com/
http://www.skydriveexplorer.com/
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
BPOS Pricing Announcement
Microsoft have announced new pricing for the business productivity cloud offerings.
For example, the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) is now $10 per user per month (originally $15).
BPOS includes Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Communications Online and Live Meeting
Press Release
Online Services
For example, the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) is now $10 per user per month (originally $15).
BPOS includes Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Communications Online and Live Meeting
Press Release
Online Services
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Forza Motorsport 3 launch video
