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August 14 2009
Behind the Scenes : Office Labs
"EXPLORE WITH US" - Office Labs are a group within Microsoft that tests ideas by building prototypes and gathering usage data to inform ongoing and
future research and development in the productivity space for both work and home. If you’re feeling experimental and want to try out concepts in other
technology areas, visit our partner page for other Microsoft research and labs efforts. Know about
Office Labs.
Watch from Channel 9 below.
August 14 2009
Netscape founder backs new browser
It has been 15 years since Marc Andreessen developed the Netscape Internet browser that introduced millions of people to the Internet. After its early
success, Netscape was roundly defeated by Microsoft in the so-called browser wars of the 1990s that dominated the Web's first chapter.
Andreessen appears to want a rematch. Now a prominent Silicon Valley financier, Andreessen is backing a start-up called RockMelt, staffed with some of his close associates, that is building a new Internet browser, according to people with knowledge of
his investment.
More details on CNET.
August 13 2009
Launching Bhuvan: ISRO’s answer to Google Earth, zoom into states, districts
Google Earth’s got some competition now — from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which today unveiled its beta version of Bhuvan (
meaning earth in Sanskrit). A web-based tool like Google Earth, Bhuvan promises to give better 3-D satellite imagery of India than is currently
being offered by the US-based software giant plus a host of India-specific features like weather information and even administrative boundaries of
all states and districts.
The application can be downloaded from http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/
August 13 2009
Microsft Update
Windows Server 2008 R2 evaluation bits are set for availability on Friday, August 14, a week earlier than previously reported by Microsoft . On Friday,
check out the Windows Server TechCenter on TechNet
for info on how and where to download the 180-day evaluation bits.
The new operating systems will include Windows PowerShell v2 with a new version of Windows Remote Management. Check out Stay
Seated with Windows PowerShell v2 to see how it
gets easier to run commands on remote computers.
MDOP team of Microsoft just released the beta version of
Microsoft Application
Virtualization (App-V) 4.6
Speaking of rollouts, SQL Server 2008 R2 is also getting closer to release. You can now download the SQL Server 2008 R2 August Community Technology Preview and see new capabilities for application and multi-server management,
complex event processing, master data services, and powerful BI tools to empower users to access, integrate, analyze, and share information using business
intelligence tools they already know.
The Identity
Developer Training Kit offers a comprehensive set of technical content including hands-on labs and references that are designed to help you learn how
to use Microsoft's identity products and services.
August 12 2009
Mapping the world, one street at a time
Between GPS devices on your car's dashboard and digital maps of almost any locale in the world on your smartphone or laptop, it's hard to get lost these
days. Meet the people at Tele Atlas, the company that provides so-called "base maps" to such high-profile clients as Google, MapQuest and RIM, the maker
of the BlackBerry. Tele Atlas also provides digital-mapping services for its corporate owner, the portable-navigation company TomTom.
Tele Atlas gets this information by combining satellite imagery, local, state and federal maps and most importantly, putting the rubber to the road in
its Mobile Mapping Vans. Images collected by the vans' cameras don't make it to the public because Tele Atlas doesn't have an application like Google
Street View. But it soon may have something that's arguably even better. That brings us to the vans' side-sweeping lasers. As the vans drive, their lasers
constantly scan the road and everything around it, recording information that Tele Atlas calls the "first reflective surface." This includes the width,
height and contours of every building the van passes.
This data, when combined with the images captured by the cameras, will help Tele Atlas create a 3-D world. Three-dimensional digital maps already are
common in Japan and Western Europe. But 3-D maps are still in their primitive stages in the U.S., where their quality depends on the type of device
they're displayed on.
August 11 2009
Google invites feedback on super-secret search upgrades
In a post on its
Webmaster Central blog, however, Google engineers Sitaram Iyer and Matt Cutts insist that ordinary users won't even see the difference.
Developers are encouraged to try out the new technology on a "sandbox" page and
then offer feedback by including the word "caffeine" in Google's feedback text field, secret-password-style.
August 10 2009
Windows 7 full review
Although the look of Windows 7 may seem to be nothing more than some polish applied liberally to the Vista Aero theme, make no mistake: this is a
full replacement operating system, and more than just "Vista done right." From driver support to multitouch groundwork for the future, from better
battery management to the most user-friendly interface Microsoft has ever had, Windows 7 is hardly half-baked.
More
@CNET.
August 7 2009
Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers now available
To help prepare your applications for Windows 7, download the Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers. The kit includes code, videos and labs for both
native Win32 C++ developers and .NET developers covering the new features available in Windows 7.
The Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos designed to help you learn how to build applications that
are compatible with and shine on Windows 7.
You can download it from here.
August 7 2009
Exclusive: Getting up close and personal with Natal
One of the reasons that Microsoft got such buzz for Project Natal is because it is so easy to see how the technology could change the face of gaming.
The effort is important to more than just the waistlines in Redmond. Microsoft is counting on Natal to give an important bump to the Xbox 360, which
Microsoft has said is only mid-way through its lifecycle, even though it has been on the market since 2005.
Although Microsoft demonstrated Natal at this year's E3 trade show, the software maker hasn't said when the technology will be available. The company
has said that Natal, which incorporates face, voice, and gesture recognition technologies, will be sold as an add-on to the current Xbox 360 console.
The effort to turn Natal from concept to shipping product has been something of a mini Manhattan Project inside Microsoft, according to former Carnegie M
ellon researcher Johnny Chung Lee, who is among those working on the effort.
Watch out great video from CNET.
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