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Weather Central implements Microsoft Virtual Earth

Weather Central a provider of state-of-the-art broadcast weather solutions, has today announced a strategic alliance with Microsoft. The alliance integrates worldwide aerial, satellite imagery and mapping technology provided by Microsoft Virtual Earth into Weather Central’s 3D interactive software applications on-air. “We are constantly investing, updating data and improving our offering to the consumer, which makes Microsoft Virtual Earth one of the

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Windows Live Suite Installer Released

Following my earlier post today about the Windows Live Suite. I can now tell you that The Windows Live Suite Installer has now been released for Download! 😀 You can grab it at: http://get.live.com/wl/all Windows Live Hotmail The next generation of Web-based e-mail Drag-and-drop organization Security features to help kill spam and viruses A preview pane to see messages from

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Windows Live Suite to be released very soon!

This morning the Windows Live Wire Blog published an entry from Chris Jones, Vice President of the Windows Live Team at Microsoft, announcing that starting today we woud all be able to test out the new Windows Live Suite of Windows Live software at http://get.live.com/wl/all. In this announcement Chris Jones mentions the following to be included in the Windows Live Suite Download: Windows

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Weshow brings the worlds best online videos to your blog and social networking sites

WeShow, the human-powered guide to the world’s online videos, is making it easier for Web users to enjoy an ever-changing collection of high-quality videos tailored to viewers’ specific interests with new products. Officially launching last month for consumers, WeShow onDesktop is a mini-application that resides on the user’s desktop and can be launched on demand—without opening a Web browser—to enjoy the

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Silverlight 1.0 Released and Silverlight for Linux Announced

Microsoft today released to the Web (RTW) Silverlight 1.0 for Windows and Mac. Silverlight being Microsoft’s cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering richer user experiences on the Web. In addition, Microsoft will work with Novell Inc. to deliver Silverlight support for Linux, called Moonlight, and based on the project started on mono-project.com.Silverlight significantly reduces development and deployment costs and provides enhanced Web audio and

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Winner of $25,000 Microsoft Home Office Makeover Revealed

The Microsoft Office team and HGTV interior designer Vern Yip presented Microsoft Home Office Makeover grand prize winner Crile Carvey with a $25,000 home office redesign. Carvey, a software application and design business owner in Wheatland, Wyo., sought to bring order to his chaotic home office to increase his productivity and efficiency. The Microsoft Home Office team updated Carvey’s office,

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Microsoft registers Windows Live Translator Domain Names

Within the last 10 days a number of newly registered or recently transfered domains have made their apperance on MSFT name servers. A list of many (not all) follows. The highlights feature both domains with the terms translation (Windows Live Translator) and television (Microsoft Portable TV). WindowsLivetranslator-int.com, .net., .org windowsLiveTranslatorV.com windowslivetranslator.com, .net MicrosoftPortableTV.com microsoftTelevision.com SimplifyYourWork2008.com., .net, .org Surface.info zunedownlaod.com zunesdownload.com zunesubscription.com TheUltimateSteal.net,

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Video Search Platform, ClipBlast!, Partners with MSN Video

Video search platform, ClipBlast!, has struck an alliance with MSN Video, wherein ClipBlast! will automatically index MSN Video content as it becomes available. By indexing new clips from MSN Video on www.clipblast.com, ClipBlast! will enable viewers to browse news, sports, lifestyle and entertainment content streamed from more than 50 sources, including NBC and MSNBC, Food Network, HGTV, National Geographic, MTV

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Microsoft puts Office Open XML format up for international vote

After months of debate and controversy, Microsoft will reach a pivotal moment this weekend in its effort to win approval of its Office Open XML document format by a key international standards organization. The process won’t end there, but the result could play a big part in determining how things play out in the months ahead. The national bodies taking