bing announced today! You will get it in about a week. Here is a video for you http://www.decisionengine.com/Default.html
Here are some screen shots I took today:
My MSFT UK colleague Steve Clayton did a fine review of the new Dell Adamo laptop.
I had a look at this beauty the other day but never got to actually play with it well enough to review it. The design is tremendous, really challenging the Mac and even the Sony (who I am a huge fan off). I am hoping my friends at Dell might loan me one to spec out with the new Windows 7 RC :-) but in the meantime you can read what Steve had to say about it.
http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2009/05/06/my-adamo-experience.aspx
I am glad companies like Dell are making “sexy” designs and putting real effort in differentiating themselves. Good stuff DELL!
You might have seen the latest ads by Microsoft showing the value (financial) of a Windows PC vs the Mac. Infact these series of ads are meant to show the true impact of what you are paying for when purchasing a new PC.
Have a look at the video and read on
So, is Lauren right in buying her HP Pavilion vs a Mac from an economical perspective. Lets have a look at the specs. :
![newmacvshp[1]](http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/stevecla01/WindowsLiveWriter/DidLaurenChooseTheRightPC_7A5D/newmacvshp%5B1%5D_thumb.jpg "newmacvshp[1]")
No kidding she did! That is $2000 difference to be cool.
My view is that there is nothing cool about being ripped off!
A lot of hard work by our education team on this, but its finally paid off.
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,25196245-15306,00.html
Live@Edu is an awesome product designed specifically for schools and universities that want to provide free email services to their students and faculty. It uses Hosted Exchange as the back end but also provides things like Instant Messenger, Spaces and Skydrive.
Other universities have also signed up such as Victoria Uni. If your in education, give it a go here http://get.liveatedu.com/Education/Connect/
Our VE team are doing a tremendous job in keeping upto date with details and imagery of the fires in Victoria.
Go to http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2009/02/10/australia-on-fire.aspx for more details
You can also go to 
the ABC News site.
:-)
This happened
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Oh and so did this…
Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 - Get it here
Big fan of Photosyth and its great to see that CNN are using it to show some great pictures of the Presidential Inauguration.
Check it out here.
If you were living under a rock the last couple of days you would have no idea that a security bug was found in Internet Explorer. Well in less than 24 hours we fixed it and you can get it from here http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/default.aspx
I’ve been talking a lot about Windows Live Wave 3 now and have been hanging out for its final release. The Beta has been running super for me and will be one of the first to run the commercial release.
Here is a slide I have been showing folks about Windows Live Wave 3 and what's in it..its pretty much an all you can eat slide and it easy to understand.
The most important message in this slide is “Keep your life in sync”. Don’t know about you but I have a tone of different things I use online and syncing things like contacts are a HUGE benefit.
Here are three things we want you to know about Windows Live:
· Communicate and share - Window Live is your home base on the web for everything you need to stay connected and up to date with the people you care about.
· Manage your stuff - Windows Live puts everything you want to do in one place and keeps track of your online world so you don’t have to.
· Optimized experiences across your PC, Phone, and the Web - Windows Live allows you to get the most out of your Windows experience, so no matter where you are – work, home, on the road with your phone – Windows Live can help keep your life in sync.
Here is a promo video:
You can download Windows Live Wave 3 here. Let me know what you think
I've been blogging about Virtual Earth for a while now and I for one think its awesome technology. I have also blogged about Photosynth which in my opinion is even more awesomeness (is that a word?), anyway...we now have them together.
Can this get any better?...
You can check it out here or if you havent done so already you can download the Photosynth app from here
I like this....why not? I remember the day when companies would go head to head to win consumers mindshare. Apple have never been shy of that..(the entire I'm a Mac ads are all about confrontation) so I am up for a bit of biff.
Its great for consumers!
