As Microsoft Windows Vista (Build 6000.16386 “061101-2205”) is released to manufacturing (RTM) today a significant milestone for Microsoft and its partners anticipation is building around that all-important question: How good is it really?Microsoft says Windows Vista is its most heavily tested operating system ever, with deep investments made to ensure greater security, reliability and usability. But after all the time,
Hutchison Essar and Microsoft Corp. have announced a broad scale mobile services alliance in India. The two companies have agreed in principle to work together to provide mobile search and other key Windows Live services to Hutch’s subscriber base of over 21 million. Under the agreement, Hutch customers in India will be able to search for and access mobile content
MSN and NBC Universal Digital Studios, a studio dedicated to creating original and unique programming for a wide range of digital platforms, have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement announced today by George Kliavkoff, chief digital officer of NBC Universal, and Rob Bennett, general manager of Entertainment and Video Services for MSN. Beginning this fall, the MSN Video audience will
Haystack.com (Haystack) a social music community connecting passionate fans to music through Tastemakers and friends has just launched into a public preview beta! Haystack helps enhance connections between music and those who care about it by helping artists create personal relationships with fanbases, fans to organize their experiences and tastes and tastemakers to promote. Since last week Haystack already has over
What’s Unique: 450+ students, 18 countries, 1 satellite and 121,866 pieces of prime real estate. We are the largest American student-led spacecraft design program, and this is the first time that individuals and organizations around the world have the opportunity to personalize their very own portion of a satellite, and by doing so, support cutting-edge student research. Their Mission: To raise
Microsoft today announced U.S. availability of Virtual Earth 3D, a new online mapping interface that is part of the Live Search offering, providing consumers with a three-dimensional experience to search, browse and explore the real world online. When people visit Live Search (http://live.com), type a query into the search bar and click on the maps tab, they get their search
Earlier today I received an email from someone called Archana inviting me to check out Ugenie and well as I had not heard of Ugenie before I thought I would take a look. And well it seems like Ugenie is a powerful new online shopping aggregator to help you find the best price on books, music, movies, and video games. You can
Microsoft Corp. today announced the completion of the 2007 Microsoft Office system code and confirmed its release to manufacturing (RTM). This gold code milestone concludes the largest Microsoft Office beta program to date, with more than 3.5 million people downloading Beta 2. The unprecedented quantity of feedback from beta testers and customers helped the Office development team effectively validate product
Microsoft has announced the VHD Test Drive Program, which provides customers with an enhanced server-based software evaluation experience that’s faster and less expensive, better supported and more flexible. The VHD Test Drive program is a first for Microsoft software and the more than 7,000 software vendors who can now deliver pre-configured mainstream applications within Windows Server-based virtual machines to their
Microsoft has restated its position on China following the comments made earlier this week by Microsoft senior counsel Fred Tipson who said concerns about repression in China might make it reconsider its presence there.Mr Tipson was speaking at the first Internet Governance Forum held in Athens which debated many issues of internet policy. He said “We have to decide if