Microsoft

Today is a real milestone for people who use Microsoft Office or Windows Live. Starting today, a select group of SkyDrive customers will be invited to try out a technical preview of the online versions of Microsoft Office Excel, Word and PowerPoint, also known as the Office Web Apps, integrated right inside their Windows...
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Back in April, Microsoft has introduced the Windows XP Mode beta and after a few months of incorporating your enthusiastic feedback, today Microsoft is announcing the availability of the Windows XP Mode Release Candidate.   As you may know, Windows XP Mode is specially designed for small and medium-sized businesses to help ease the migration process to Windows...
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Bing’s Top iPhone Apps gallery offers a unique way to browse and search apps. But only 500 of them.   There’s a new way to search for iPhone apps, and it comes from the unlikeliest of sources: Microsoft. The new Bing Visual Search engine, announced yesterday, includes a special gallery section that spotlights iPhone...
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Guidance for building collaborative applications that extend your LOB systems The Developing SharePoint Applications guidance helps architects and developers design and build applications that are both flexible and scaleable. It shows developers how to provide IT professionals with the information they need to maintain those applications and diagnose problems when they arise. The two...
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Here are five of my favorite Excel formatting tricks.   Double-click to fit columns and rows When you enter or paste text and numbers into Excel, the cells don’t expand to fit their contents. The fast way to autofit columns and rows is to hover your mouse over the header border between the column...
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Microsoft Recite is a search technology for your voice that runs on Windows Mobile* devices. With Microsoft Recite, you can use your voice to easily store, search and retrieve the things you want to remember, where and when you need them. Microsoft Recite is available as a free technology preview beginning February 16, 2009....
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Neither Windows 7 or Snow Leopard tries to reinvent the wheel, but both pack notable new features, large and small.   This is shaping up to be the autumn of new operating systems. The latest version of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard, shipped to customers Aug. 28. Windows 7, the follow-up to the much-maligned...
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