Archive for the 'MS News' Category

Microsoft Kinect : Improving lives globally

February 4 2012No Commented

Categorized Under: MS News, XboX Kinect

In the recent times, one of the technology that has shown much promise to help people in India and worldwide around is one from Microsoft’s Kitchen. The motion sensing technology Kinect initially planned for bringing more excitement to a gamer’s life has now been extended, hacked and in sighted as the next big thing in [...]

Microsoft is killing MyPhone & Windows Marketplace for Mobile

June 9 2011one Commented

Categorized Under: MS News, WinMo

One  of those emails from the product team which you would not like at all. Just a few minutes ago I was surprised to see a mail from the Microsoft Product team for Windows Phone with the Shut-Down of Windows Marketplace for Mobile and My Phone? as the subject. The mail says: Microsoft will be [...]

14 Year Old Hacker Hired by Microsoft

May 29 2011one Commented

Categorized Under: MS News

Are you one of those IT professionals or students who have a dream to work with the Software giant Microsoft? To get through just be jack of all trades, ace in your grades, learn few programming languages on your tips. OR you may get through there by a short way like this 14 year Unknown [...]

New Features Announced for Silverlight 5 Beta

December 3 20102 Commented

Categorized Under: MS News

With the world moving towards HTML 5 for Rich Media, Microsoft announced Silverlight 5 beta. Microsoft Silverlight is a powerful platform for creating and delivering rich Internet applications and media experiences on the Web. Silverlight 5 builds on the foundation of Silverlight 4 for building business applications, premium media applications and applications that reach beyond [...]

Caution! Fake Microsoft Security Essentials software on the loose

October 27 2010No Commented

Categorized Under: MS News

A new Trojan that is disguising itself as Microsoft’s no-cost antimalware program Microsoft Security Essentials is also known in the technical world of antimalware combat as “Win32/FakePAV”. FakePAV is a rogue that displays messages that imitate Microsoft Security Essentials threat reports in order to entice the user into downloading and paying for a rogue security [...]

Recent ebook giveaways from Microsoft Press

June 8 2010one Commented

Categorized Under: MS News

Microsoft Press books, e-books, and newsletters can help you gain the technical information you need. Here is a quick summary post of some of recent giveaways at Microsoft Press : Free ebook: Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (DRAFT Preview) Free ebook: Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (DRAFT Preview II) Code for “Moving to [...]

Download Guides & E-Books for Microsoft Technologies

March 30 20102 Commented

Categorized Under: MS News

Microsoft has provided excellent resources for teachers. They may Watch videos, and download guides and e-books to inspire class and to help make the best use of tools and technology in their lessons. Digital storytelling Creating digital stories ignites a love of learning and is a powerful student-centered learning activity. Free tools Engage your students, [...]

Download Free ebook: Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions

February 22 2010No Commented

Categorized Under: MS News

Mitch Tulloch has updated & released a free ebook of Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions, From the Desktop to the Datacenter. This book contains Six chapters adding up to 466 pages and is a must guide for those explorong new horizons in Virtualization Solutions. This book is available in both XPS as well as PDF format. [...]

Learn more about Microsoft products by How to do Videos

February 3 2010No Commented

Categorized Under: MS News

On Technet, a number of How-to-do videos for various Microsoft technologies are available. You can learn more about products such as SQL Server, Security, Windows Server, Exchange and SharePoint with these "How Do I?" videos. TechNet has assembled these short videos for customers to learn how to accomplish specific tasks with Microsoft products: step-by-step. Azure [...]

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010

January 26 2010No Commented

Categorized Under: MS News

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 is a Solution Accelerator for operating system and application deployment which supports deployment of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 in addition to deployment of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP.MDT is the recommended process and toolset for automating desktop and server deployment. MDT provides [...]