Awards recognize partners’ innovative use of Microsoft technology to exceed customer expectations and solve business problems... more »

this is good news. I was waiting for this enhancement. hope windows live and yahoo will follow this soon.. more »

Google is giving up the Right Side Label, now enhanced it on the left side with fantastic drag and drop feature... more »

Columbia Pictures is in talks to create a new movie about Facebook called The Social Network, an adaptation of Ben Mezrich’s sensationalistic book Accidental Billionaries: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal, Variety reports. It would be the first major film based on Facebook. The book, scheduled for release on .. more »

During the 2009 Presidential inauguration, Facebook and CNN made the “Live Stream” widget famous amongst television executives wanting to find ways to make live events more engaging and viral inside Facebook. During the speech, over 2 million status updates were sent, and CNN and Facebook have since been appearing at conferences .. more »

VMware's vSphere has been around for a month now and, the more I use it, the more I realize that there are so many major changes and big new features to try out and learn about. Just so that virtualization admins have a quick list of features to try out in vSphere, I put together a top 10 list (kinda like those David Letterman top 10 .. more »

We've previously discussed some of the upcoming changes Outlook Mobile may see with the launch of Microsoft Exchange 2010 (we say may because it's up to your IT department to actually implement them). A recap: Threaded e-mail. Voicemail transcription. Sync SMS. Block/quarantine phones. See when messages you've replied to or f.. more »

One of my friends work for a company where he has to work in a remote PC and where he lives he does not have good internet connection. He neither has permission for opening up third party email website such GMail, nor he could download email with 100MBs of attachment using Outlook. He tried for even whole night trying download those email. However .. more »

HTC launch event in London in 2009: chit-chat with John Wang from HTC.. more »

Windows Anytime Upgrade (WAU) is a method that allows a user to upgrade from one Windows 7 SKU to a higher one (Ex: Home Premium to Professional.) WAU packs for Windows Vista were made available at retail, so naturally, there was the assumption that Windows 7 would have its own WAU packs as well. You might remember seeing these box shots in an .. more »

The Windows 7 pre-order program is live starting today and will run until July 11th (July 5th if you’re in Japan.) Those from the UK, Germany, or France will be able to pre-order from July 15th till August 14th. Microsoft also emphasized “while supplies last” when talking about the upgrade program dates. What you need to know to .. more »

Until recently I remember seeing a fair amount of Windows Vista advertising. Think the Mojave experiment. Nowit seemsMicrosoft has scaled it back by a largeamount. They are now just advertising “Microsoft” in general. Take the recent “Laptop Hunter” ads. The ads talkabout the hardware in the computers, but fail to mentionthe .. more »

Part of the enterprise architecture work is to define a meta-model. Meta-model depict what are the architecture building blocks that we need to do our work, and their relations. Usually meta-model is one of the first task that we'll address in enterprise architecture work, following by collection of building block instances that we miss. There a.. more »

Microsoft has created a SKU line-up for Windows 7. Windows 7 will be available in 6 versions. Which Windows 7 edition is right for you?.. more »

I see that the WSUS product team just made an announcement about the FCS update re-offer problem and it’s resolution.  I have the meat of it below as well as a link to the source: Shortly after the release of our previously announced update for Forefront Client Security, we received reports of a previously released update for FCS (Client U.. more »

Just and FYI that we’ve released Microsoft Security Advisory 971778. This discusses a new vulnerability in Microsoft DirectShow affecting Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 that is under limited attack. The advisory outlines information about the vulnerability and steps customers can take to protect themselves while we’re .. more »

Dear Bing (the Author),   We couldn’t help sit up and take notice of your offer of services from one Bing to another.  We were moderately surprised and mildly excited. As you might have guessed, today is quite a big day for us.  Even so, we dropped everything when we saw your press release this morning.  After an emergency meeting (three peop.. more »

Windows Installer version 5.0 is included in Windows 7 Beta. The MSDN documentation section "What's new in Windows Installer 5.0" has been updated accordingly and available for online viewing. In addition, all functionality provided with the MSI 4.5 redistributable release is included on Windows 7. Over the next few days, we will do a series of de.. more »

Today we’re announcing the rollout of Virtual Earth to the Content Delivery Network (a part of Microsoft's Edge Computing Network). What does this mean? Well, Virtual Earth has historically been in a single data center serving up all these billions of tile images (and the AJAX map control) which service our mapping platforms including the .. more »

May’s imagery update comes with a shiny, new toy to play with (in addition to the 248,000+ sq. kilometers of new imagery). We’ve decided that instead of providing you with some ginormous list of locations and a few snapshots, we’ll provide you with an experience. Check out the new Bing Maps World Tour (hosted on Windows Azure. no .. more »

Hi WSUS admins,   As part of the System Center Online family, the new category System Center Online Client will be made available soon. Updates offered in this category will apply only to computers running the System Center Online Client software and will contain updates including security updates for the client software of Asset Inventory Service (.. more »