July 2006 - Posts
Photosynth, of Microsoft Live Labs, enables photo collaboration on a large scale, using technology to stitch together photographs allowing for multiple views (3d like) of places where you've been by stitching your photos together with others of the same
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New in Vista is the sidebar, which contains gadgets (lightweight applications drawing data or images onto the actual desktop to run). In my current invocation of Vista Beta2 on my laptop I'm running slideshow in a gadget, an analog clock (interestingly
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While its pretty obvious that Unified messaging in Exchange 2007 will place voicemails into your Outlook inbox with the player, some non obvious items bear notice: - You can ring a handset from the message to play the message so you dont have to play
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As I'm exploring the new and interesting things in our worldwide tehnical training event at Microsoft, something that took me by surprise was Windows Meeting Space. This Vista feature allows Vista clients to do Ad-Hoc collaboration on documents or discussions
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New Links have been added for Microsoft in Financial Services, the external Technology in Finance Site, Service Oriented Architecture and Developer sites for Web services. Take a look as there is much going on in the industry, and regardless of your particular
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Thank you to Mike Wons for permission to republish. Much valuable information and links follow related to development activities in the Financial Sector. Welcome to the Microsoft Financial Services Newsletter for Developers . At Microsoft, we're committed
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Not only does the Microsoft CRM team have a blog, but what impressed me was how they use it to track posts and avoid duplication across the team. Heres a link to their blog for the latest CRM info: http://blogs.msdn.com/crm
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Heres a blog by the Authorization Manager team. Authorization Manager is a free tool to make role based authorization management easier, and Business user friendly. TIP: go to the bottom of the blog for the best high level description. The remainder are
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One area of note as Office 2007 support is a larger array of supported file formats. Heres a link to the blog by the office program manager working on OpenXML for details and its effects in increasing Office interoperability: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2006/07/05/657510.asp
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In addition to the industry standard beta download version, Microsoft has added a new way to test drive Office 2007. Its Live online using Windows Live. You can test the new version of Office here: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/testdrive.msp
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I'm noticing quite an uptick in activity in the Mobile phone space with the introduction of Windows Mobile 5. MobiTV has expanded to support Mobile 5 with their Mobile TV service, HTC has announced a 3G supporting Windows Mobile phone, Sharp announced
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Theres been some interest expressed in how Windoes MCE will change in Vista from its current form. Here are some links to materials outlining and presenting the changes in Vista. From the WinHEC site: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winhec/pres06.mspx You
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We've just launched a contest that challenges developers around the world to design Office business applications that support non-profit organizations and encourages them to learn more about the 2007 Microsoft Office system at the same time. The contest
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Ok, its been a little bit since the last post, and much has occurred. Since mylaptop board/cpu started overheating, requiring frequent trips to the freezer to stay alive, I was moved up in the tech refresh list. The new M400 works well, although I'm working
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