Moving home...

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Palm Treo for Windows Mobile looking good

Ed from PocketPCThoughts brought me this shot. Yet the PDF he linked to is nolonger working.

Windows Live Local now live

You have to love that title. Virtual Earth has changed it's name to Windows Live Local and it now has the bird's eye feature we have been hearing about.

Paul Thurrott has posted some Vista Screenshots

Windows Vista Build 5259 Screenshot

Handy Bot for Messenger

The following contact adds Encarta to your list of buddies to answer any questions you have. More on the RTC Technology blog.

mailto:encarta@conversagent.com 

Microsoft research releases SNARF email triage program

I'm download now. Looks great.

Windows Vista November CTP screenshots

Thanks ActiveWin

OneNote Mobile the next killer app for Windows Mobile

You get all your OneNote goodness transfered both ways, along with automatic photo OCR'ing and audio search capabilities once you get sync'd back up to your PC. Chris Pratley (OneNote Program Manager) has the details. Blown away!

US gets Xbox 360!

www.xbox360.com

Excel 12 looking not too shabby

Just in case you didn't know the Excel Team are blogging.

Firefox now supported by WGA

Thanks Ed for the link: Windows Genuine Advantage Firefox Plug-in

New Desktop Search Capabilities for Enterprise

Unless they have updated Windows Desktop Search I don't think you can get Outlook 2000 or below working with either the enterprise or consumer product. More on Microsoft Press

Xbox 360

Scoble points to some interesting Xbox 360 commercials. Jump in!

Microsoft offers Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions for free

This is fantastic news. The original price for these Starter Editions was going to be $49US. You'll have to hurry the offer is only available until Nov 7 2006 :-) Thanks for the link Paul.

Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware is now called Windows Defender

Steve Dodson has a write up on his blog.

Windows Live pictorially

TechCrunch tells us more about the Live announcement

Heh, I am sending this post via Outlook this time. I did a quick write up of Windows Live a moment ago and Blogger crapped itself. Isn't it funny that when you start talking about Microsoft and Web 2.0 it breaks the Google service Blogger. lol

 

On a more serious note it is something this industry is going to have to address at some stage. How to you recover from a wipe out like that where the browser and the web server don't play nice? I need to have confidence in Web 2.0 in order to adopt it. If the page breaks and my data is lost I'm going back to my highly workable, configurable and disconnect-able (Americanism alert!) Outlook 2003 solution.

Screen shots of Windows/Office Live

Microsoft's new plan Office and Windows Live

This is the next bet for the company. It started with the Web in 1995 then .NET in 2000 now in 2005 we have online services that bring everything together.

Your online world gets better when everything works simply and effortlessly together. That's the basic idea behind Windows Live. So all the things you care about online - your friends, the latest information, your e-mails, powerful search, everything – comes together in one place. This is a brand new Internet experience designed to put you in control. And this is just the beginning – you'll see many more new products in the coming months.

Microsoft Press

Oh yeah... Happy 50th BG!

The 28th of October was Bill Gates' 50th birthday. It looks like he was in London.

Microsoft releases Works 2006

This sounds like a fantastic deal. Microsoft Word 2002, Works 8, Money 2006 Standard, Digital Image Standard 2006, Encarta Encyclopedia Standard 2006, Streets & Trips Essentials 2006 for only $99US

SQL Server and Visual Stuido 2005 RTM

Microsoft just released two major development prodcuts to manufaturing. They are also available to MSDN subscribers. Paul Thurrott points us to the new .NET Framework that go along with it.