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Who want to test-drive the Windows 7 Beta?
The beta version of Windows 7, Microsoft’s next-generation PC operating system, can be downloaded today by MSDN, TechBeta and TechNet customers. Consumers who want to test-drive the beta will be able to download it beginning Jan. 9 at http://www.microsoft.com/windows7.
In the coming months, Facebook users can choose to share content they post on Facebook, including photos, directly into Windows Live.
Windows 7 Consumer Features Showcased
via [techmeme]
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permalinkVirtualBox - Major Update in Version 2.0
VirtualBox 2.0, listed in Top 11 Fun Downloads May 2008, runs on Mac, Linux, and Windows machines and lets you run guest operating systems inside your computer's native environment.
For example, if you're a Linux user but you occasionally want to run a Windows application that doesn't perform well under WINE, you can load up VirtualBox and run Windows... [via downloadsquad]
Download VirtualBox
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Labels: development, microsoft, opensource, software, sun, utilities
Synchronize your Phone Contacts with Microsoft’s Windows Live Contacts
Microsoft Phone Data Manager is available for free download, you can check the list of compatible phones for this application here.
the software syncs contacts, music, pictures, and videos between your phone and you desktop and the web.
Microsoft Phone Data Manager Download
Windows Live Messenger
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Labels: collaboration, electronic, messenger, microsoft, mobile, networking, sharing, software, utilities, web_2.0
Why you should use Windows Search 4.0 in an Enterprise Environment
Online E-Mail Indexing
Run Your Outlook Client in Exchange Cached Mode
if your mailbox is copied locally on the end user’s computer, Windows Search performs its indexing activities locally as well. This means the Exchange server isn’t burdened during either the initial or the incremental indexing.
Remote Queries
Windows Search 4.0 extends the ability to search across remote desktops.
eg. Querying from Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008
Support for Indexing Encrypted Files
WS4 supports indexing encrypted files on local file systems, allowing users to index and search the properties and contents of encrypted files
read full article on Windows Search Administration Guide.
Get Windows Search 4.0 and read how to Extending the Windows Search Index
via | tags: windows search desktop enterprise environment
Labels: collaboration, communication, microsoft, search, social_software, software
Connect your XBox 360 to Google Desktop as UPnP Server
All you need is a PC running Google Media Server and a UPnP-enabled device (e.g. a PlayStation 3). At the touch of a button, you can then: Access videos, music, and photos stored on your PC, View Picasa Web Albums, Play your favorite YouTube videos...
Why Windows?
...the only way to connect the XBox 360 to a UPnP server, was to have a service that is only found on Microsoft services ... and for the server itself to be claimed to be made by Microsoft. Legal would not allow us to pretend to be Microsoft (although there are other servers out there that do).
sources:
Google Media Server
YouTube in your Living Room
From the desktop to your TV
related:
Create a Wii media server
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Labels: google, microsoft, networking, photo, social_software, software, web_2.0
Depeche View loads all text files from a folder into memory
Free text-browsing utility Depeche View is a boon for anyone who prefers to work with simple, easy-to-transport text files....
Depeche View is a free program for Windows systems only.
[via LifeHacker]
tags: depeche view text files freeware windows
Labels: development, html, microsoft, social_software, software, utilities
Top 11 Fun Downloads May 2008 - Games, Fun, Tools and more
01. 3DMark Vantage is the new industry standard PC gaming performance benchmark from Futuremark, newly designed for Windows Vista and DirectX10.
url: http://www.futuremark.com/download/3dmarkvantage/
02. AVG 8.0
AVG 8.0 offers a winning combination:
AVG ensures your safety while you search or surf the net, download music, documents and pictures, send emails or instant message by scanning documents, files, Web pages and Web links before you open them.
url: http://www.grisoft.com/
03. Zak McKracken
Zak McKracken: Between Time and Space” is an unofficial sequel of the adventure-classic “Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders” which was released in 1988.
url: http://www.zak2.org
04. TrackMania Nations Forever
TrackMania United Forever combines the best of all previous Trackmania games and especially one thing: fun race without end.
url: http://www.trackmania-the-game.de
05. Pictomio
Pictomio is Freeware and sets new standards for 3D accelerated browsing of your photo and video collection.
Pictomio requires a graphics card with ShaderModel 2.0 and a minimum of 128 MB video RAM.
url: http://www.pictomio.com
06. Kart n' Crazy
nintendo games mario kart behaviour for online players.
url: http://www.goa.com/#/kartncrazyintroduction/
07. DreamRender - Animated Desktop Wallpaper
url: http://www.dreamrender.com/
08. X-Plane
X-Plane is the most thorough, flexible, and realistic flight simulator
url: http://www.x-plane.com/
09. Weblin
Meet your friends and new people on every website!
url: http://www.weblin.com
10. VirtualBox
An x86 virtualization software package developed by Sun Microsystems. Distributed under either the GNU GPL or a proprietary license with additional ...
url: http://www.virtualbox.org
11. Microsoft WorldWide Telescope
The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe.
url: http://www.worldwidetelescope.org
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Labels: fun, games, microsoft, photo, social_software, software, utilities
Why Steve is not happy - Hostility between the three companies
Steve Ballmer's update
After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded by Yahoo do not make sense for us, and it is in the best interests of Microsoft stockholders, employees and other stakeholders to withdraw our proposal...
Microsoft and Yahoo Love
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Labels: cloud_computing, communication, google, microsoft, video
Live Mesh framework (Mesh FX) as a Software plus Services Platform
Microsoft wants to go 2.0 at a time of great turbulence and potential change in the web industry.
Live Mesh is more than two years in the making by Microsoft and is a combination that enables PCs and other devices to ‘come alive’ by making them aware of each other through the Internet, enabling individuals and organizations to manage, access, and share their files and applications seamlessly on the Web and across their world of devices, if their are using windows.
Live Mesh is open to developers (not just .Net/Silverligth). It’s going to be cross-platform and cross-browser...
It will bebased on standard protocols and feeds — HTTP, RSS, REST, ATOM, JSON and FeedSync.... [read more from Mary Jo Foley]
Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era
Live Mesh Wait List Page
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Labels: ajax, api, cloud_computing, collaboration, communication, mashup, microsoft, networking, sharing, web_2.0
Restores your files from removable media with Recuva
Recuva is another tool from Piriform and is able to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer.
its very fast to run and can be run from a USB thumb drive, for example. it restores all types of files, office documents, images, video, music, email, anything. supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 , NTFS + EFS file systems
Download today Recuva from FileHippo.com
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Labels: microsoft, security, social_software, software, utilities
