If you havent seen the other announcements of the brand new Project Administration then take a look over at and add a link to your browser favorites or RSS reader. Treb Gatte will be the primary blogger, but some of the kind of postings that have come from me and will in the future be posted via the Project Admin site. Ill be keeping my usual .. more »

While economists have declared the in the U.S., we still live in challenging times, and its truer than ever that an education is the best first step to future success. At the MacBU, were committed to helping students achieve their goals, and still have enough money to pay for books, tuition and other realities of college life. With that in mind, .. more »

Microsoft is launching a new campaign with JiWire to provide free Wi-Fi access throughout airports and hotels in exchange for searching on Bing. The deal is the latest in an ongoing strategic push to further encourage new users to test the decision engine. Monday, the campaign "is based on the premise that once people experience Bing first-hand .. more »

The Microsoft UK Education team has a dozen people in it (surprised?) who are focused full-time on education across schools, colleges and universities. Which means that were awfully busy and spread across many, many things all the time. But fortunately we have the help of other similar teams around the world, and a much bigger team in our offices .. more »

Posted by John Vassallo Vice President, EU Affairs Earlier this week Microsoft joined with the European Environment Agency to launch a compelling example of how Microsoft’s cloud computing technology can be a real ‘change maker’ in the fight against climate...(read more).. more »

Over the last few months Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith and I have blogged about our Board of Directors consideration of Say-on-Pay proposals that enable shareholders to weigh-in on our executive compensation practices. As we shared in September, our Board approved a policy that enables Microsoft shareholders to cast a non-binding, advisory .. more »

Today I presented a session at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York called Cloud Computing with Windows Azure Using Your Preferred Technology Windows Azure platform AppFabric SDK for PHP , which enables PHP developers to connect applications via the cloud more easily using the AppFabric Service Bus & Access Control. Bing 404 Web Page Error Toolkit for PHP .. more »

. We reported the progress made on the Stonehenge project and presented the roadmap. is to provide a public forum to test the interoperability of WS-* protocols on different vendor stacks and to build sample applications that could provide best practices and coding guidelines for better interoperability. The main sample application, StockTrader has .. more »

The Microsoft Hohm team continues rolling out its online energy management software with power utilities in North America. Today, Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) customers in the California area will be able to better understand and change their energy consumption habits and receive personalized energy conservation recommendations from .. more »

To prevent the inadvertent disclosure of High Business Impact (HBI) information, Microsoft IT designed and implemented a system using Microsoft technologies in conjunction with a third-party solution that automatically identifies and classifies HBI information at risk, and then starts the remediation proccess... more »

Microsoft IT will talk about how they simplified the Windows 7 installation experience by developing a self-service wizard. The wizard can be launched from network boot or run advertised programs in control panel. It uses preflight checks and gives the user the ability to select applications to install. Find out how Microsoft IT will enhance this .. more »

Microsoft IT will talk about how they leveraged the Operating System Deployment feature within System Center Configuration Manager to deploy Windows 7 within the Enterprise. Learn how Microsoft IT customized the solution that has been engineered for extensibility and how you can do the same... more »

facebook-pagesFacebook Page owners have been able to target Updates Facebooks term for message blasts that Page owners can send to fans that show up in a secondary tab in the Inbox by age, sex, and location for a long time. Now, Facebook has added a for Page owners to target news feed stories to fans by location and language as well. Heres how it .. more »

Facebooks gradual rollout of the Facebook Ads APIs in recent weeks. Now, were beginning to see the first tools built on top of the APIs come to market. This week, two London-headquartered agencies, , are showing off whats coming soon. 77Agenys new Facebook Ads tool lets advertisers manage multiple accounts, track conversions, run custom reports, .. more »

As weve seen in other parts of the world , Facebook continues to grow by more monthly active users every month in Latin America. This past month, it grew by 3.9 million users to reach 39.3 million monthly actives in the region, according to our . This is up from the approximately 2 million it gained in September Argentina and Mexico continue to .. more »

How to Download and Enjoy YouTube 1080p HD Video for Time Saving It is exciting that the world's most popular video-sharing site YouTube will allow users to upload and view video in full HD. But not all people are excited about this for it is too slow to watch online video at HD quality. Is there any way for us to short the buffering time when .. more »

The BizSpark startup of the day is routeRANK, based in Switzerland. They provide technology and software for travel and transport planning. How do you feel being the most promising company of the day per Microsoft? What did you do before creating your company? Research; performance analysis and optimization in networks. How did you get the idea? .. more »

In my earlier post, “Microsoft Office 2010 Beta available for download – Announced at PDC09 today!,” I told you that the Microsoft Office 2010 beta program was announced and is now available for download.  Well, just as exciting was the announcement that in addition to the Microsoft Office 2010 beta now becoming available, the SharePoint 2010 be.. more »

Earlier this year, we announced the Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview program for testers to participate in and since then, a popular topic and question has been, “When will the Microsoft Office 2010 Beta be available for download?”  Well, the answer to that question has been announced and that answer is NOW!  Today at the Microsoft Profes.. more »

Hey folks, For those of you not at PDC that want to keep up-to-date with the exciting announcements there, we’re covering PDC live until its conclusion.  To watch, go to www.microsoftpdc.com There is an all-star lineup of guests including Mark Russinovich, Patrick Dussud, Steve Marx, Bob Muglia, Dave Campbell, Yousef Khalidi, Ray Ozzie, Erik Meij.. more »