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Have you ever wondered how new technologies get developed in Microsoft and how they start out there life, well now’s your chance to see for yourself how new technologies come to life with Microsoft’s new Gadgets Blog! Microsoft Gadgets Blog
Microsoft has now released a preliminary draft of the Microsoft Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines (or UX Guide for short). These guidelines contain information on What’s New in Windows Vista, design principles, guidelines for controls, text, windows, and aesthetics. They will help designers and developers create high quality, consistent Windows Vista applications. Link to the Windows Vista UX Guidelines
Microsoft has released an official screenshot gallery at the Press Pass website for their new releases being show at PDC 2005. See them here.
Woow this is great and yes it actually does work, well for me anyway! A Query by Humming system allows the user to find a song by humming part of the tune. No musical training is needed.The idea is simple: you hum into the microphone. The computer records the hum and extracts certain features corresponding to the melody and rhythm
Meebo is a functional AJAX IM client that works with some of the major IM services out there like aim/icq/yahoo/msn, it’s still in its early stages of development and it’s quite good already so I’m expecting to see a lot more out of it especial for people who travel a lot. Check it out now Meebo AJAX IM Site
Here’s another great interview which was recently posted at Microsoft’s Channel 9 Website, this time it’s an interview with Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect Bill Gates. Bill Gates. Do we need to say anything more? Visit Bill in his office for a few minutes to talk about where he sees the future going. This is a fun interview, prepares you for
I’ve just found out that Microsoft’s Channel 9 Website as an interesting interview with Marc McDonald, Microsoft’s first employee! Marc McDonald is Microsoft’s first employee. Hired back in 1976. We recently caught up with him and talk about the old days at Microsoft as well as what he’s doing on the Windows Vista team (he’s working on defect prevention). Funny
MBSA is an easy-to-use tool designed for the IT professional that helps small and medium businesses determine their security state in accordance with Microsoft security recommendations and offers specific remediation guidance. Improve your security management process by using MBSA to detect common security misconfigurations and missing security updates on your computer systems. MBSA Website
The Bart PE Builder software utility takes Windows XP and shrinks the OS to your USB flash drive. Besides converting your mini- drive into an emergency boot disk, you can use the utility to load a Web browser, media burning software and more – to have handy anywhere you go. And by the way, no it doesn’t violate the Windows
The BBC has released the first TV clips from its archive onto the internet for people to “rip, mix and share”. Almost 100 clips, from shows such as Walking With Beasts and Tomorrow’s World, are for the UK public to use for free in their own creative works. The BBC hopes to foster innovation by letting anyone re-use its material