Microsoft launched office 2010 system in India and during it’s launch it also announced a new agreement with Nokia where it will soon to providing support of Microsoft Office 2010, starting with Nokia’s E-Series devices. It will later be expanded to other Symbian devices.

D. Shivakumar, MD and Vice President, Nokia India, said, “With the mobile device fast emerging as the primary access device for professionals on the move, this alliance will enable us to expand Microsoft Office Mobile to Nokia smartphone users and allow them to collaborate on Office documents from anywhere.” Continue reading “Microsoft to launch Office 2010 Support for Nokia’s E-Series devices” »

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), one of the most powerful medium to display graphics has been in existence since 1999, but didn’t had the share of success that it should have enjoyed owing to the fact that Internet Explorer wan’t much compatible though almost every other web browser supported it.

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Microsoft is now looking to expand in every possible way. A new game called Ribbon Hero is scheduled to be released which utilizes many features of Office and can be played on the social notworking site called Facebook. The game was designed by Redmond’s Office Labs as a training tool or say as a learning tool. Jennifer Michelstein, a program manager at Microsoft’s Office Labs told the Beeb that there were shedloads of functions in Office which many users could not find and this game would help them learn fast. Gaming seemed to be a good method because people learn almost effortlessly when play is enjoyable, she said.

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In mid-December 2009, Microsoft released Bing to the world and it received great appreciation however there were no figures to showcase its success over iphone os. Now, Florian Voss from Bing’s team has released the stats for number of times, Bing application or iPhone or iPod got downloaded from Apple’s appstore which scales upto over 1 million downloads as of now.

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Do you ever find yourself looking up at the sky on a night filled will stars and wondering about the way, they twinkle. Well, Worldwide Telescope from Microsoft will not you the reason but it will certainly make you experience the universe more closely. It converts your computer into a virtual telescope showcasing you images taken from best telescopes in the world.

According to Microsoft “WWT is an application that runs in Windows (well, there is Mac installer also) that utilizes images and data stored on remote servers enabling you to explore some of the highest resolution imagery of the universe available in multiple wavelengths.”

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Microsoft, today released Silverlight version 4 adding  new features including support for Google’s Chrome browser and hardware acceleration for a image downloading tool called Deep Zoom. It will extend out-of-browser abilities introduced in version 3, and tweak text, printing and networking to make it better for applications. Microsoft further added that Silverlight now enjoys 60 percent of the share among internet devices and Windows phone 7 will be the major push point where lots of stuff are planned for integration. Continue reading “Microsoft unveils Silverlight 4 RC and claims to be on 60% of internet devices” »

Microsoft released API (Application programming Interface) of bing after getting feed back from developers who emphasized the necessity for offline reading, preferably in chm format of pdf format. The book is over 650 pages with very detailed explanation of every aspect. The Bing Application Programming Interface (API) version 2 allows third-parties to programmatically submit queries to Bing, and of course, also get the necessary results from Microsoft’s search engine.

“Now, everything you ever wanted to know about the Bing Application Programming Interface (API), Version 2, is conveniently available in a single download. Get an overview, survey, and detailed information for each important area of the API: what the API does, and what it does that it did not do before. Survey information for protocols, SourceTypes, and properties. Detailed samples demonstrating all of the above, including code samples,” George Thomas Jr., Bing Toolbox, revealed . “If you are new to Bing, version 2 of the API enables developers to build applications that can: retrieve information from the Internet. Monetize an application with advertisements. Improve and enhance search requests and results. Find location-specific information. Translate terms and blocks of text,” Thomas stated. Continue reading “Microsoft releases Bing Application Programming Interface (API) for developers” »

Cloud based options are really getting wider day by day and Microsooft – world’s largest software maker yesterday introduced cloud-based operating system in India. It is to feature Windows Azure, a cloud-based operating system hosted in Microsoft’s data centers, will be available at $0.12 on an hourly basis, while storage on Azure will cost enterprises $0.15 per GB on a monthly basis.  The web edition of its database service SQL Azure will be available at about $10 per month for up to 1 GB. The business edition of its database service will be priced at about $100 per month for up to 10 GB of database per month.
Rajan Anandan, managing director, Microsoft India, said: “All of our popular products are already cloud-ready, and we have a clear future roadmap to provide anytime, anywhere access across diverse devices spanning computer, mobile and Internet.” Continue reading “Microsoft unveils cloud-based operating system in India” »

Well, guys at gizmodo were able to hook up with Microsoft’s upcoming rumored or almost confirmed phone called “Pink” code-named “pure”. They have posted a blurry shot, by the look of which it seems to carry a qwerty sliding form mechanism along with touchscreen input. They have rated the experience of touchscreen above other android handsets which I don’t personally belief. The phone is destined to be a offering from Verizon wireless. From the above shots, it is clear that this phone is neither carrying Windows Mobile 7 or Windows mobile 6.5, it seems to house a proprietary operating system.
There is not much known about other specifications, but going by things they aren’t very interesting either. With the launch of this phone, Microsoft is just looking to capture there lost share of users with their earlier flopped phone “sidekick” where failure of servers resulted loss in data of its users and a huge outrage was seen.

Microsoft’s Aaron Woodman showed the first Windows Mobile 7 powered mobile phone at The Engadget Show, he took out LG’s Windows Phone 7 Series pre-production prototype! mobile phone which is housed with the QWERTY slider and is the first time anyone has spotted it, though it was already known that the first Windows mobile 7 powered device is apparently built by LG, and while the hardware specifications were not revealed at the show.

Guys at engadget wrote “it’s just a hair thicker than an iPhone or Nexus One, there are dedicated hardware camera, volume, and power buttons in addition to the back, home, and search buttons dictated by Windows Phone 7 Series, and we noticed a five megapixel camera with a flash on the back, along with a headphone jack. Can’t say much apart from that right now, since things are so early and everything is subject to change, but things are certainly moving along”.

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