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Today not only marks the availability of Office 2010 for organizations, but also the immediate availability of Office Mobile 2010 for all Windows Mobile 6.5 based phones with an earlier version of Office Mobile FOR FREE! via Windows Phone Marketplace. Office Mobile 2010 for Windows Mobile 6.5 includes new mobile versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and SharePoint Workspace. These new mobile versions offer a more touch-friendly layout and greater ability to work with documents on the phone – like editing PowerPoint presentations.
Personally my favorite new feature is the SharePoint and Windows Phone integration. With SharePoint Workspace Mobile 2010 and PowerPoint Mobile 2010 I can access, edit and save changes to...
We’ve been talking a lot lately about the value of desktop virtualization and how to get the biggest bang for your buck from it.
We certainly recognize that you have your work cut out for you – managing your technology infrastructure in a way that ensures the highest degree of security and compliance while also managing the proliferation of applications in your environment especially if users are able to download their own apps.
These factors and others are all contributing to the growing popularity of desktop virtualization. The challenge we realize is how to make sense out of this complex topic while distilling all the information available in a meaningful way. We also recognize it’s a broad term and there are different ways to...
If you’re a developer that is familiar with Windows Home Server v1 SDK, or someone who wants to develop Vail, this blog post may be of some interest to you!
It has now been over a week since we released the beta builds of “Vail”, the next version of Windows Home Server, and are very encouraged by the amount of downloads and feedback that we have seen so far. We now thought that it would be a great time to start discussing some of the new features that you will see in Vail. As many of us know, Windows Home Server is a platform that can be extended with fun and useful add-ins – and better yet, the extensibility will be even greater in “Vail”. Be sure to check out the new comprehensive SDK for developing add-ins which is available to...
Back at MIX in March, we released the first Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview. We said we were committed to releasing an Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview update every 8 weeks. Well, today we’re making good on that promise and even a little ahead of schedule! Today we are releasing Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 2. You can grab the new Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview it by visiting the Internet Explorer 9 Test Drive website.
Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for Internet Explorer, has posted to the IEBlog about Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 2. He dives a little deeper into a lot of the improvements that was made to Internet Explorer 9’s performance and support for standards and talks about the feedback...
Hello, I'm Alessio Roic from Microsoft Outlook, guest-blogging here today to make an important announcement. After several months of beta testing, Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector 14.0 has officially been released!
Why use Outlook Hotmail Connector?
If you have been using Outlook Connector 12.1, you already know that it allows you to manage your Windows Live Hotmail e-mail, calendar, and contacts from within Outlook. Outlook Hotmail Connector 14.0 introduces several improvements. For example, you might notice after upgrading that the connection to Hotmail is more reliable than before, and issues such as blank messages being synchronized to Outlook have been fixed.
It's even better with Outlook 2010
Outlook Hotmail...
In the previous post - Understanding Microsoft Push Notifications for Windows Phones, you learned what push notifications (PN) are and why we need them. In this post, we’ll explain a little about how Microsoft Push Notification (MPN) service works behind the scenes and who the different players are.
There are three players in the push notification game:
The backend Web application, or cloud service, that communicates with your Windows Phone 7 application— for example thinks about the Facebook Web site and its companion WP application.
The Windows Phone device—and not your WP7 application, because if your application is currently running, there is little need to use MPN. But if your application is not running, then the MPN...
It’s been a pretty wild last 8 months since we launched the Office Web Apps Technical Preview on SkyDrive. We’ve had so much demand for the technical preview that we had to expand its availability, and we’ve seen a lot of excitement about the integration of our web apps with the Office 2010 Beta. And as Chris Jones mentioned previously, we’ve also had several thousand people checking out the cool new features we’ve built since then.
Those of you who were able to get in to the technical preview early have enjoyed the ability to view Word , Excel , and PowerPoint files, and to edit Excel and PowerPoint files, right from the browser – no software installation required.
Although the Office Web Apps on SkyDrive are currently just a...
We are pleased to announce the release of the Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT) 2.0. This free download is an important tool that helps customers automate and centrally manage a range of activities related to Windows and Office activation. The release of VAMT v2.0 is a significant milestone as it packs the following features/benefits:
Helps IT administrators centrally manage and automate a range of activities related to Windows activation using Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in for a consistent administration experience
Enables management of product keys – whether obtained from the Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) or from other sources such as retail, MSDN, MSPP — and product activations using those...
AppleInsider | Microsoft believes Android infringes on patents, HTC strikes deal
As Jeff and Piero mentioned yesterday, the newest version of Messenger (beta coming soon) is designed to be the most meaningful way to stay in touch with the people who matter most, keeping you connected with your friends and what they’re doing across the web. We have made it possible for people to quickly see what their friends are doing on social sites like Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn. But of course, people love shopping, they love watching videos and viewing photos, and they love finding great local places to eat, relax, and spend time with others. So while the big social networks are important, there are tons of other experiences that customers want to stay up to date with.
Earlier today, John Richards and Angus Logan...
We’ve spent the last few months posting about how we look at the industry, the key customer problems that are top-of-mind for us, and where we think we can improve the lives of our customers. Today in a speech at the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil, Steve Ballmer is sharing a preview of the new Windows Live Messenger. In this post we want to talk more about our philosophy and approach for this new version. In subsequent posts we’ll go into more depth on different aspects of the experience.
As Chris laid out in his blog post last week, the world of instant messaging has evolved in the last 14 years. In the early days of IM, most of your close friends were on one IM network, connected using their PCs, and sent text-only...
Today we reported our third quarter earnings for the period ending March 31st, 2010 with a record $14.5 billion in revenue. You can read our earnings results here. Windows 7 continues to be a growth driver for Microsoft and people continue to be excited about Windows 7. How excited? Exactly 6 months after the launch on October 22, 2009, we’ve sold well over 100 million licenses of Windows 7. To put that in context, more than 10% of all PCs worldwide are already running Windows 7 today. That’s amazing!
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