If you live in Outlook, as I do, and need help navigating your inbox and outside of the inbox, then you need Xobni. I upgraded a while ago, to Xobni Plus, soon after they launched the product during the 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, back in July. It has been inbox bliss ever since. In one recent scenario, I had some of our Microsoft .. more »

Last year, Microsoft BizSpark was launched to catalyze the success of startups by providing access to Microsoft’s end-to-end software solutions with no upfront costs. BizSpark also connects startups to a global community of more than 2,000 technology veterans and entrepreneurial experts who can help navigate the challenges of growing a new bu.. more »

Watch MVP Marcus Murray discuss his community contributions with Karen Young. Marcus specialises in Enterprise Security, and in this video he discusses why he attends TechEd each year and what he loves about IT. Learn more about Marcus by visiting his blog. Technorati .. more »

Watch Microsoft’s Karen Young interview MVP Pawel Potasinski at TechEd Europe. Pawel is actively involved with Culminis (changing to Gitca) and in this interview he talks about how the role of Culminis and how it helps user groups to grow. Learn more about at Pawel at his blog. Technorati .. more »

who works hand in hand with the SBS and EBS product teams shared some exciting news with me today and I wanted to pass it on to you. There are now Hands on Labs available for SBS2008! Its a great way for you to ramp up new employees or for those of you who are just venturing into the server market, its a safe way to get your feet wet without damage .. more »

Built on Microsoft cloud services technologies, NASA’s interactive “citizen-science” Web service lets anyone explore the Red Planet up close, while also contributing to Mars missions... more »

Marking its one-year anniversary at PDC 2009, BizSpark continues to gain momentum, expand its reach with new offers, and put partners at the center of the equation to turn startups into successful businesses... more »

Microsoft’s new Windows Server AppFabric provides developers with new tools to develop, manage and deploy composite applications... more »

I'm working on some prototyping for an upcoming Mix Online prototype (a bit recursive, no?). My prototype provides a service with a REST interface, which has a few methods that send data via JSON and XML. I'm using the WCF REST Starter Kit ( to get a REST service up and running quickly, and using the syntax to make my REST service nice and Web .. more »

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, most advertisers should have noticed an uptick in volume of clicks as online shoppers begin scouring the internet for the best deals leading up to the holidays. If you haven’t already started optimizing...(read more).. more »

Following John’s post on Window 7 Personalization you can now add the best of Bing to your desktop. Download from the Windows 7 Personalization Gallery for free, install and then customise your background to change every few minutes to display any...(read more).. more »

With our site targeting functionality released this spring for Content Ads in the U.S., you can now bid specifically on hot commodity MSN sites - !  This new access to these audiences can help you boost holiday sales; just spend a little time optimizing your Content Ads campaign: -- Create an ad group and set the bid type for -- Create your ad t.. more »

First, its hard to have a bad time when you leave the greyness of Seattle for sun and - and that includes the late night fire pit discussions - and certainly a much more upbeat tone this year than last with the economy stabilizing for a bit. But what struck me the most at the event was that despite the sponsors, AOL, Facebook, Yahoo on the first .. more »

Over the past two weeks we have been blogging about the Innovative Teacher Awards in Brasil, and how well our two UK Teachers did at the recent . So imagine our surprise to find that the Innovative Teachers Programme, which this blog is part of, has been shortlisted for a BETT award. We have been nominated for the ICT Service and Support Award . We .. more »

Until recently, data administration in Product Activation systems was a time-consuming, manual process which would take weeks to complete not to mention the development and test resources required to configure the data. The MSIT Product Activation systems team built a solution with innovative use of Microsoft technologies which not only automates .. more »

- High speed USB2.0 connection, connect the digital camera, USB Flash Disk, movable hard disk - Supports SD, MMC, USB Flash Disk - Supports memory card: SD, MMC and USB flash disk - Image format: JPG, BMP and GIF - Audio format: MP3, WMA - Video format: AVI, MPG, MPEG, RM, RMVB, VOB, WMV and DAT - USB interface: USB 2.0(compatible with USB 1.1) - .. more »

We show how model-based on-the-fly testing can be applied in the context of web applications using the NModel toolkit. The concrete case study is a commercial web-based positioning system called WorkForce Management (WFM) which interacts with a number of other services, such as billing and positioning, through a mobile operator. We describe the .. more »

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After the Nov. 4 announcement of Microsoft Research’s Mt. Fuji Plan, Microsoft Research Asia demonstrated its commitment to one of the plan’s key pillars, collaboration with academia, during the 11th annual Computing in the 21st Century conference... more »

Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, finished his 2009 Microsoft College Tour at the University of Washington on Thursday, demonstrating a few prototype technologies from Microsoft Research... more »