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Now here's the update to the Office Mobile. This is about the news which also appeared here at Microsoft Office Mobile 6.1-Supports Microsoft Office 2007 file formats
And the download link later was taken off and many were not able to download this. Now that has been clarified . This is what "Jason Langridge's WebLog - MR Mobile!" said:
" Yesterday I blogged about an Office Mobile upgrade and then had to remove the posting. This was because in the final preparation our Product team posted an internal site that was not intended for public consumption and it was then immediately removed. A number of bloggers and Windows Mobile sites picked up on the post our web team made. I've had a number of questions relating to what happened to the link and when the upgrade will be available. Microsoft will put out upgrades for Office Mobile to support the new Office 2007 file formats in the near future. In the next few weeks you will see more information pertaining to the availability of this upgrade."
This is what the BlueHat Security Briefings said :
"I have been told that I can write a blog entry for the BlueHat blog, with little or no editing, and now I sit here and have to make up something interesting to write about. I have a bit of a writers block today, caused by being tired, jetlagged, and already halfways on my way to the airport for my flight back. Also, the first draft of my blog post tried to be witty, and failed spectacularly at that.Bluehat is an interesting event – it's quite enlightening to talk to the people here. MS usually has problems to solve that are larger (and by extension more interesting) than most other companies.One has to admit that Vista is arguably the most secure closed-source OS available on the market. Microsoft did do a good job at addressing the issues of previous Windows versions. Progress on all fronts has been achieved, and MS is probably better than any other closed-source software vendor when it comes to the the security of their products.This makes it difficult for attackers. The cost of developing an exploit for Vista is significantly higher than for any previous versions.As a result, I think that most of the security researchers will move on to greener pastures for a while. Why try to chase a difficult overflow out of Vista when you have Acrobat Reader installed, some Antivirus software with shoddy file parsing, and the latest ITunes ?I expect only a small number of remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in Vista. We will see everybody else getting hammered though. But, for a while, there will be (relative) quiet and calm in Redmond.It is important to keep in mind though that everybody is just waiting for Microsoft to become complacent again. Secretly, all attackers are hoping that Vista will be a failure, security spending will be scaled back and nobody will attempt to build a secure mainstream OS again.Let's wait and see where this goes. It was fun being here, and I hope that I will be back at some point in the future."
Microsoft Corp. today made available its 2007 annual report to shareholders on the Microsoft Investor Relations Web site at www.microsoft.com/msft. Hard copies are available free of charge to Microsoft shareholders by calling (800) 285-7772. Microsoft has also provided the annual report to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
A very nice post on Tim Sneath's Blog: A must read for those interested in Silverlight.
"As more and more Silverlight sites become available, enterprise administrators are starting to ask for guidance on how Silverlight should be deployed in a corporate environment. Obviously, at one level it's as straightforward as executing the installer, but there are typically a whole ton of questions that need answering:
Microsoft Corp. will release fiscal 2008 first quarter financial results after the close of the market on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007. A live webcast of the earnings conference call will be made available at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time on the Microsoft Investor Relations Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/msft.
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How far along is Microsoft with the next version of Internet Explorer (IE) — which might be IE 7.5 or IE 8.0, depending on what Microsoft decided to do since last time we heard anything truly tangible from the IE team (which was about a year ago)?
Posters on Microsoft’s Channel 9 site are asking for an IE update. Among them is Dave Massy — a former Senior Program Manager on the IE team who resigned from Microsoft in February 2007. Massy posted some of his qualms about the IE team’s silence this week on his new personal blog:
“I do agree though that the IE team needs to start talking to the developer community on a much more consistent basis. After the release of IE7 all online chats stopped. The online chats had been taking place every month since well before IE7 was under development. After the release of IE7 the bug reporting system was withdrawn. There have been vague promises that it was only temporary but it has now been almost a year and no replacement is in sight. The IE team does not have to give exact details of IE8 but their complete silence shows a complete lack of respect for the developer community.”
Developers need some concrete direction, Massy said:
“(C)ompanies are struggling to know which way to go around key strategic issues such as Vector Graphics Technology. Adobe are about to finally kill their SVG plugin and developers don’t know what to use instead. Is IE8 going to provide an answer and support SVG natively as other browsers are doing? It’s little surprise that web developers feel jerked around by IE. The longer the silence continues the more even I who was once part of the team starts to question if the IE team can deliver on any part of what is needed in the next generation browser.”
Massy points to Al Billings, another former member of the IE team (now working for the Mozilla Foundation), who also has been questioning why the IE team has been so quiet. Billings blogged:
“IE7 was done, really done, by the end of the Summer in 2006. Heck, it was done except for bug fixes when I left in May, 2006. It is now, officially, the Fall of 2007. It has been more than a year since work finished on IE7. More than 200 people work on Internet Explorer (heck, if you count ‘contingent staff’ as well as employees, there were more than 120 QA people on IE in mid-2006 and I bet over 100 developers). They’ve all been working on something for a year now. You wouldn’t know it by any public announcements, demonstrations, or posts on their blog. Most of what gets posted there is a retread on IE7 features and not terribly often at that.” Continue At Source
“IE7 was done, really done, by the end of the Summer in 2006. Heck, it was done except for bug fixes when I left in May, 2006. It is now, officially, the Fall of 2007. It has been more than a year since work finished on IE7. More than 200 people work on Internet Explorer (heck, if you count ‘contingent staff’ as well as employees, there were more than 120 QA people on IE in mid-2006 and I bet over 100 developers). They’ve all been working on something for a year now. You wouldn’t know it by any public announcements, demonstrations, or posts on their blog. Most of what gets posted there is a retread on IE7 features and not terribly often at that.”
We've been waiting and waiting, and after months of speculation, a hardware revision, a couple limited editions, and even a new SKU, it looks like Microsoft is finally shipping "Falcon"-equipped Xbox 360s with 65nm CPUs. According to the eagle-eyed posters in the official Xbox forums, Halo edition 360s from lot #734 appear to be the first machines with the new chips, and the time-honored method of peeking inside the case with a flashlight should confirm you have the latest and greatest once you get your baby home. Check the read links for tons more info (and a fun little flamewar).
Microsoft will be releasing a beta of their new Internet TV plug-in today (US only), it should be automatically downloaded to your PC and will show in the TV+Movies strip. The video content will come from MSN Video, so you might have seen links to some of the content off your Hotmail account or after a search on MSN. Over 100 hours of content is supposed to be up, and I assume more will come as time goes on.
Since I have been playing with it over the past week, I must say that it is the most impressive Internet TV application I have used so far. The main reason I feel that way is because it is one of the few that actually have a UI that provides easy navigation, especially with a remote.
Video quality seems to depend on the specific content, some of which looks very nice and some of which is so bad I wouldn’t bother attempting to watch. There are a few Halo 3 trailers that looks pretty good (silently above SD), but I watched the premiere of Journeyman and it looked like it was about 320x240 at 400kbps. That is clearly not something that I wanted to watch through a Media Center Extender on an HDTV.
Content is actually pretty good for only having 100 hours up. Full seasons of Arrested Development are up, content from other joint-MSN properties like MSNBC and FOX Sports, a number of concerts from bands/groups like John Mayer, the Pussycat Dolls, Oasis, Elton John, and more. There is also select content from National Geographic, History, HGTV, bio, A&E, and more.
All of the content is ad supported with the help of YuMe Networks, which actually works nicely from what I have seen so far. Now, I’m not sure how much of the advertising was live but basically after the video is done streaming I got a quick ad. 90% of the time in my testing, it was a Xbox 360 ad or some sort. I except more to show up, and I really don't think it will be bad at all.
Overall, I’m impressed with the Internet TV plug-in just as I’m impressed with the Sports Lounge that was launched at the beginning of the year. As long as Microsoft continues to add content, I can see myself using this often. For a platform that gets very few feature updates on a regular basis, these plug-ins do a pretty good job filling the void.
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Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile (2007 Release) extends the reach of Office Communications Server 2007 to information workers who use Windows Mobile powered devices. Communicator Mobile provides presence and communication features that are similar to the desktop version of Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 when users are away from their desks. Download At Source
It is hard to figure out who to take with a bigger grain of salt: Microsoft and AT&T, or the politicians the companies testified in front of today.
At issue is Google’s $3 billion pending acquisition of online-advertising firm DoubleClick. Opponents of the deal, including Microsoft and AT&T, say the combination will concentrate too much of the online-ad market in Google’s hands. Google says that’s nonsense and its current online-advertising effort is an apple to DoubleClick’s orange.
It is hard to completely take Microsoft at its word, given the famous antitrust problems it has had over the years. Consider also that Microsoft lost as a bidder for DoubleClick. The software titan also has a history of locking horns with Google, which filed an antitrust-related complaint this summer contending that Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system violated the terms of Microsoft’s 2002 federal antitrust settlement. (The matter has since been resolved.)
But AT&T is simply a neutral observer, looking make sure that as its supplier of ads, Google isn’t in a position to unfairly raise prices, right? Not so fast. As this Wall Street Journal article today points out, AT&T and Google themselves have been bickering lately, about net neutrality, the principle that all Internet sites should be equally accessible to any Web user.
Microsoft has passed the OpenAjax Alliance's suite of interoperability tests to prove that its software can interoperate with other parts of the OpenAjax ecosystem.
On the eve of the AJAX World Conference and Expo 2007 West taking place Sept. 23-26 in Santa Clara, Calif., Microsoft officials said the Redmond, Wash., company's software passed the OpenAjax InteropFest 1.0 tests and is interoperable with other AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) components in the OpenAjax ecosystem through the OpenAjax Hub.
The OpenAjax Hub is a set of standard JavaScript functionalities defined by the OpenAjax Alliance, with strong focus on being small and fast.
Brad Abrams, a project manager for Microsoft's ASP.Net Atlas, wrote in his blog Sept. 23 that Microsoft passed the OpenAjax InteropFest test. Bertand Le Roy, a Microsoft engineer who prepared the Microsoft entry for the OpenAjax test, also blogged about the entry and the testing process itself.
According to the OpenAjax InteropFest 1.0 page on the OpenAjax site, Microsoft passed the test Sept. 20. Offerings from Software AG, the Dojo Foundation, Nexaweb and the Apache Software Foundation also passed on the same day.
Microsoft joined the OpenAjax Alliance in March after being courted for several months.
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Yesterday here on campus we hosted a fun event to select the Code2Fame Challenge winners. The three finalists presented their Add-In wares to a panel of esteemed judges, who in turn determined the first, second and third prizes…each with an associated award of cold, hard cash. Without further ado, the winners are (drumroll, please):
First prize: Andrew Grant for Whiist. Whiist is a very cool (and free) Add-In that allows users to easily host multiple web pages and photo albums on Windows Home Server. With Whiist it’s a snap to make an Office document – or anything that can publish to HTML – into a web page on your homeserver.com site. Simply drag photos into a website folder, and you can post albums of your favorite pictures to share with friends and family.
Second prize: David Wright for Jungle Disk. Jungle Disk provides inexpensive online backup and storage of Home Server content, using Amazon’s S3 infrastructure. A really nice solution for “personal disaster recovery” and assured protection of your most important content. It will be available for purchase this fall.
Third prize: Prakash Gautam for Community Feeds for Windows Home Server. This free Add-In pulls text, audio or video down to Home Server via RSS, so it’s viewable from an Xbox or any Windows Media Connect device. Very interesting possibilities here for creating personalized media libraries, accessible to the whole family at home or away.
The Windows Vista logo helps customers quickly identify products designed and tested to take advantage of features in Windows Vista, helping them save time, money and energy when it comes to buying products for the new platform.
Certified for Windows Vista hardware and software is tested against industry standards and Microsoft performance criteria for delivering reliability, stability and speed while meeting high security standards.
In the program’s first year, more than 2,000 products from vendors all over the world have received certification, and this week at Digital Life 2007 in New York City — the conference where the logo program began — Windows Marketing Manager Ben Reed is knee deep in new devices and applications sporting the Certified for Windows Vista logo.
Follow Reed as he gives PressPass a camera’s eye view of Microsoft’s booth at Digital Life, a four-day consumer event in New York City dedicated to educating consumers about what the digital lifestyle means in every aspect of life at work, home and play.
Microsoft Corp. is making Microsoft® Services Premier Support with Microsoft Dynamics™ Services available for enterprise customers worldwide with one contract. The offering, which combines the best of Premier and support services for Microsoft Dynamics, simplifies processes and decreases complexity, providing high-quality, personalized service.
Premier Support is now one of the most complete vendor services offerings available in the industry, providing support across the entire Microsoft environment — from databases and servers to business applications. Through this integration, Microsoft Dynamics customers will now have access to proactive services, reactive support assistance and support account management, including the following:
A single point of contact through a technical account manager (TAM)
A single process for engagement
Access to expertise on infrastructure and Microsoft Dynamics products
Flexibility to move hours to service components
Enhanced break-fix services with critical situation and rapid on-site support
“This is a logical step for Microsoft to take as Microsoft Dynamics products become more widely accepted in the enterprise market,” said Tom Kucharvy, senior vice president of Ovum Summit. “Customers want to limit the number of required contracts, minimize points of contact and generally simplify processes. Microsoft is responding to these needs.”
To maintain a high level of partner engagement, Microsoft is offering documented collaborative support processes and service subcontracting processes.
“We’re excited about the integration of the Microsoft Dynamics proactive services into Premier,” said Sean Jazayeri, general manager of Enterprise Business Solutions at Avanade. “This will enable us to provide our enterprise customers worldwide with the best services Microsoft has to offer. We’ve experienced firsthand the high level of confidence and satisfaction that Premier drives with the customer when Microsoft Premier is backing our organization.”
Microsoft Premier Support with Microsoft Dynamics Services is available immediately to enterprise segment customers with Microsoft Dynamics enterprise resource planning (ERP) and Microsoft Dynamics CRM solutions. Customers interested in receiving additional information are encouraged to contact their account representative.