Windows 7 Users Help to Change the World
In a recent post, we encouraged participation in the 7 Ways to Change the World competition. Thanks to those of you who submitted solutions from organizations you work with who are affecting social and economic opportunity. Here’s a follow up to let you know about all of the wonderful...
Office 2010 Beta Hits a Milestone!
You may have already heard, but we have some exciting news from the Office team — earlier this week we reached the 1 millionth download of Office 2010! This means that more than 1 million people across the world are now experiencing and testing the next version of Office. You’ll...
Microsoft Surface Manipulations and Inertia Sample for Silverlight available for download
Just to point out this [awesome!] download available from the Microsoft Surface team, intended only for educational purposes.
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"Multitouch support in Windows 7 allows applications to blur the lines between computers and the real world. Touch-optimized applications entice users...
Difference between DirectX 10 and DirectX 11
If you’d like to get a look at the difference between DirectX 10 and 11 using an ATI 5870 card, take a look at this video. It’s a pretty good leap forward in detail and dimension. In the video you can see the difference in detail between the two, but it isn’t until you see the wireframes...
How to Use "Play to" and "Remote Media Streaming" in Windows 7
There are a couple of new features in Windows 7 that help you liberate the multimedia content from your PC and stream it to other devices around your home. You can even stream to your laptop no matter where you are in the world – all you need is an internet connection to do so. The two features that...
WindowsBlinds 7 Now Works with Windows 7
Remember WindowsBlinds? Back in the day, this was the go-to tool for customizing your Windows user interface. By allowing far more modifications than any theme or desktop background change would provide, WindowsBlinds became a popular way to give your computer a whole new look and feel.
Over the years,...
Webcast: See What’s New with Bing Maps
Join Bing Maps technical evangelist Chris Pendleton to learn about the latest innovations in the Bing Maps Platform that can help you take your Web mapping solution to the next level. Hear about Deep Zoom and multimedia integration possible in the new Silverlight Control and see how the latest...
Microsoft targets programming newbies with new Vedea visualization language
In mid-November, Microsoft researchers dropped a few hints about a new visualization language, codenamed Vedea, that was coming from Microsoft. On December 3, via a blog post, Microsoft officials provided more specifics about it.
Vedea is a prototype experimental language designed by Microsoft...
Google home-page to sport a fade-in look.
The Google homepage is sporting a new look. Google has released a new version of its classic homepage. The main feature of the new homepage is that it “fades in” — when the page first loads, it shows only the logo, the search box and the buttons.
“For the vast majority of people who...
Use MS Tag to Visit the Student Mobile Site!
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Use Microsoft Tag to visit the Student Mobile Experience or pull out your cell phones and go to http://s2dent.mobi
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