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Friday, May 09, 2008 2:46 PM

It’s Not About Backup, It’s About Sync

In the last year or so, there has been a wave of activity in the storage service space. Companies new and old have been entering into the fray to tout their friendly, automated consumer backup solutions. Many names may ring a bell and are in the process
Posted by Viral Tarpara | 3 Comments
Thursday, February 14, 2008 10:04 PM

An Inside Look At Microsoft Research's New Building

Scoble has a pretty interesting writing up about Microsoft Research and some of the projects they are working on!  Also there are a lot of pretty pictures of the new building! Interesting Comments About: Stuff covered in the tour: Microsoft Surface
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Friday, February 01, 2008 2:13 PM

Microsoft Goes Yahoo!

Eileen beat me to the punch on this one. I am excited by this announcement because some of my favorite sites on the Internet are Yahoo properties such as Flickr and Upcoming. I also hope that that certain technologies die off like Yahoo messenger. Here
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Sunday, December 30, 2007 11:00 PM

Did You Know: Live Photo Gallery Does Panoramic Auto-Stitching?

My cousin decided to get a new place and needed to post pictures of their apartment on Craigslist.  I suggested they try panoramic pics of their place to show the size of the apartment.  Being a lazy person, he didn't care, so I did it for him,
Posted by Viral Tarpara | 1 Comments
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 3:01 PM

Tafiti Brightens Up SharePoint Enterprise Search

Microsoft announced yesterday that Tafiti , the experimental Silverlight front-end for Live Search, has been released under the Microsoft Shared Source Permissive License *it's like BSD*.  Here is the announcement.   Internally this caused a
Posted by Viral Tarpara | 1 Comments
Monday, December 03, 2007 5:49 PM

Microsoft Buys Video Social Networking Startup, WebFives.com

Last friday, Microsoft took another step in improving its online consumer platform by purchasing WebFives. Webfives is an online rich-media blogging/social networking site geared towards filmmakers, musicians, and charities. It's technology is unique
Posted by Viral Tarpara | 1 Comments
Thursday, October 25, 2007 2:04 PM

Ina Fried of ZDNet Interviews Ballmer on Windows Mobile Strategy

My favorite excerpt from this fun interview was the following: "What about full Web browsing? I mean, that seems to be the one feature of the iPhone that would also benefit business users. Ballmer: It sure would." Simple and blunt answering is Ballmer's
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 12:48 PM

The New Face of Maps.Live.com

Finally!  Today is the day I officially switch from Google Maps to Live Maps.  The new Live Maps has a host of new features, but more importantly it finally brings a better user interface to the world of online mapping *i.e. kicks Google's ass*
Posted by Viral Tarpara | 3 Comments
Saturday, September 29, 2007 8:03 PM

Digg Plugin for Live Writer

  This is exactly what I was looking for.  Leo Vildosola has written a great plugin that gives bloggers an easy way to add Digg button.  It seems to work well seeing as how I've just added the button with one simple click!  Now let's
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 1:44 PM

Just Tafiti It

I'm always amazed at how quickly the marketing department gets on a roll with great product names like Silverlight , Surface , and Popfly , only to crash into a proverbial brick wall with a name like Tafiti . what is that, like 5 syllabals? Regardless
Posted by Viral Tarpara | 0 Comments
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 10:43 PM

Windows Live Showcase: Toolbars Don't Always Have To Suck

After writing about the Hotmail connector for Outlook , I decided to write about the Windows Live Beta offerings on a feature basis. Today is the first part of a multi-part series showcasing Windows Live and how the new collaboration enhancements can
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Monday, September 10, 2007 11:32 PM

Use Outlook Natively with Hotmail

The new Hotmail Connector for Outlook was released a few weeks back, oddly I haven't seen anything written about it, hence this post. The connector gives the ability to use Outlook 2003 or 2007 with LiveMail/Hotmail natively. For those of you who were
Posted by Viral Tarpara | 3 Comments
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:46 PM

Microsoft Live Writer 2.0 Beta

Technorati Tags: Microsoft , Live.com , beta , blogging I just downloaded the new version of Live Writer, for some reason I was still using a pre-1.0 beta. For those of you who still use a browser to blog, using a dedicated application allows for a richer
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