Category archives for Microsoft News

LifeChat headsets for Microsoft Lync system

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Microsoft announced 2 new business range headsets with the facility of Lync system integration. It has been optimized for better communication through Lync server and provides better noise reduction and stereo surround business class experience. LifeChat LX-4000 facilitates single earpeaice to handle the both, the outer surrounding sound and the system. whereas both the headphone contains [...]

Windows Thin PC has been RTM

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Microsoft has sucessfully completed the CTP phase of Windows This PC by today and finally its released to manufacturing. It will be available to consumers to download starting July 1, 2011. However, the RC build of Windows Thin PC will still be available to download at the CTP site, along with associated documentation until the [...]

Microsoft to buy Nokia

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According to the rumors spreading all around the web is that Microsoft is looking forward to aquire Mobile division of Nokia. Yes Nokia, Just three months before Microsoft had announced the partnership with Nokia and now they are about to aquire the whole devision. Then whats the main deal to announce the partnership. Just a [...]

Hybrid deployment of Office 365 messaging – the future over the cloud

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Microsoft is moving to a hybrid deployment of Microsoft Office 365 where MSIT (Microsoft IT) hosts some user mailboxes on-premises service and hosts other mailboxes online in the cloud. This “dogfood” deployment of Microsoft Office 365 may possibly lead to lots of productivity possibility like faster and ease of access of mailbox. In this case [...]

Price increment for Microsoft Certifications

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If you are planning to do Microsoft Certification in comming month, study faster and schedule for it before 1st July. Microsoft is about to do some significant changes in price of Certification exams effectively from 1t July onwards. Although the discounts available for the certification will be remain same. IT Academy members, high school, college, [...]

Nokia partnerships with Microsoft

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This news has been buzzing for several days that Nokia to adopt windows Phone 7 as their mobile operating system and today Nokia President and CEO Stephen Elop and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, announce a new partnership to build a new global mobile ecosystem. Elop has been considering the major possibilities for its smartphone business [...]

Rumors stated bing copies Google search results – Microsoft clarified it.

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Microsoft has been charged by a rumor driven by searchengineland.com and followed by the Google’s sting operation over Bing Search. Google has been engaged in proving Bing as a copy cat plumcake. According to them the Bing Toolbar is used to watch what users search for on Google, the sites that the users end up [...]

Bill Gates supports the things that Steve Ballmer is doing

Microsoft Corp.co-founder Bill Gates said he supports chief executive officer Steve Ballmer, as rival Apple Inc. overtook Microsoft last month to become the technology company with the highest market capitalization. “I happen to like the things that Steve’s doing,” Gates said when asked if he had confidence in Ballmer, according to the transcript of an [...]

Public Beta version of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 availability announced

Now no more wait, Microsoft has announced the imminent availability of public beta version of Service pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 at TechEd 2010 annual conference held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (June 7-10 2010). ” Today, at TechEd, we are pleased to announce that by the end of July [...]

Why to choose Microsoft over Google Apps ?

Over the years of continues improvement of Microsoft Infrastructures and its business tactics, many company choose Microsoft products over Google apps. The saying of some of its consumer is Google is just focusing on its Advertising business and they released Google apps to serve people more advertising. With Hidden Costs. Document Fidelity. Security Concerns. Lack [...]

Microsoft Tag comes out of “Beta” tag

It has been 18 months since Microsoft has launched mobile barcode technology, “Microsoft Tag”. In that time, more than one billion Tags have been printed by people and businesses all over the world, more than 20 million magazines with Tags were in the hands of U.S. consumers. Today, Microsoft has made an announcement of its [...]

Announcing Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Service Pack 1

Today Microsoft has announced Service pack 1 (SP1) for Windows 7 and Windows server 2008 R2. They didn’t  enclosed more details about SP1 for windows 7 but they pointed the new important features in the coming Service pack of Windows Server 2008 R2 which primarily focuses to help organizations of all sizes increase flexibility, employee productivity and IT [...]

Windows XP Mode without hardware virtualization technology

Today, During the Desktop Visualization Hour Webcast , Microsoft has talked about the investments around desktop virtualization technologies and solutions, including virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), to help organizations of all sizes increase flexibility, employee productivity and IT cost savings. Within this session Microsoft outlined improvements that make it easier to access desktop virtualization. Like New technology agreement [...]

Welcome Windows Mobile 7 | The Next Generation Mobile phone series

Finally we have got the li’l bit hope of windows mobile 7 release, today at Mobile World Congress 2010, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the next generation of Windows Phones, Windows Phone 7 Series. “Today, I’m proud to introduce Windows Phone 7 Series, the next generation of Windows Phones,” said Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer [...]

Project Natal on the Air

Microsoft has announced to the visitors of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Project Natal will go on sale in November 2010 it will work on all existing Xbox 360 consoles. Project Natal was first announced at the E3 video games conference in June last year. It is the system allows users to [...]

Office 2010 Pricing details revealed

Office 2010 Engineering blog has released Office 2010 U.S. retail pricing today. According to them, Office 2010 will be available in four different flavors that best suits for you – Office Home and Business, Office Professional, Office Home and Student, and Office Professional Academic. Here’s a chart that outlines the features and pricing for each [...]

All about Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool

Now a days we feel that for many languages like Hindi, entering text on PC is difficult. And there are many products and tools in market out there today through which we can enter text in hindi by any translation widget. But most products have some barrier – e.g. some require users to know a fixed [...]

Microsofts’ vision to Health care | Health tech Today

Health Tech Today with Dr. Bill Crounse is a monthly online series providing cutting-edge stories at the intersection of health and information technology. It highlights the latest industry trends and features examples of proven solutions that are improving health and changing lives for clinicians, patients and consumers worldwide. The series of videos features informative interviews [...]

Welcome WebsiteSpark | A new developer resources platform

WebsiteSpark is launching officially in Ireland on Tuesday, October 20th at the Guinness Storehouse.  WebsiteSpark provides web designers, developers, students, freelancers and anyone else who is interested software licenses, support and business resources to help them grow and succeed. WebsiteSpark will provide you the following software licenses for three years.  After enrolling here, you can [...]

Be aware Apple, Introducing Zune HD

The one and only computer giant Microsoft has announced that the latest version of Zune Media Player to beat apple iPod, will be available in the United States on September 15. It can support 720p HD-compatible videos, TV shows, and videos in high definition on your HDTV through the Zune HD AV Dock. Share, buy, [...]

Microsoft vs. Yahoo fight finished

After a long wait a 10 year deal has been successfully executed by Yahoo! and Microsoft. The agreement will improve the Web search experience for users and advertisers, and deliver sustained innovation to the industry. The agreement does not cover each company’s Web properties and products, email, instant messaging, display advertising, or any other aspect [...]

Watch Bill Gates Live !! on 24th July 2009

Bill Gates will be in India to inaugurate the fifth year anniversary celebrations of the Microsoft Research India and attend a symposium on “Research and Innovation – The Keys to India’s Future” on Friday, 24 July. The chief guest of the day will be the Hon’ble Shri Kapil Sibal, Minister of Human Resource Development. Mr. [...]

Happy 10th Windows Live Messenger

10 years ago today, MSN Messenger v1.0 was released to the world and users all around the world began downloading it via their 28.8/56.6k dial-up modems.

Windows 7 release date delayed

Long time back i have posted about the release date of Windows 7 RTM which was coming on 24th for MSDN and Technet subscribers. According to latest news on WindowsTeamBlog, Windows 7 RTM scheduled at the end of July that this will be launched on August 6th.