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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Microsoft might have discontinued the download pages for Windows Vista RTM Enterprise, and Vista Enterprise plus Office 2007, packaged as virtual hard disks, as the bits continue to be available from its servers, the company is now also offering free trial versions of Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise edition. Just as is the case for [...]
Windows Live Messenger 9.0 Beta Build 14.0.3921.717 Leaked
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008A new Beta build of the next iteration of Windows Live Messenger has been leaked and is available for download. Windows Live Messenger 9.0 initially debuted into Beta at the end of 2007, alongside the final release of version 8.5. Back in November of the past year, Microsoft's limited Windows Live Messenger 9.0 Beta grew [...]
Office 2007 Discounts Bonanza
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Microsoft indicated that by mid-2008 it had sold in excess of 120 million licenses of the Office 2007 System, in tandem with the 180 million copies of Windows Vista shipped. Following the RTM of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, the Redmond giant introduced new discounted prices for the Home Premium and Ultimate editions of the [...]
Updated Hosted CRM 4.0 Trial Versions Available
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Microsoft has introduced an updated hosted CRM 4.0 offering at the end of the past week. According to Gavin Gee, a member of the Microsoft UK Software Plus Services team, the Redmond company has put together a demo and trial version of its customer relationship management platform. Via HostedMicrosoftCRMTrial, 60-day trial sessions of hosted CRM [...]
Free Downloads of MapPoint 2009 and Streets and Trips 2009
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008While Virtual Earth continues to evolve in the cloud, Microsoft manages to remain anchored on the desktop. In this regard, the Redmond giant made available for download MapPoint 2009 and Streets and Trips 2009 at the end of the past week. Announced in mid-July 2008, trial versions for the two products have gone live on [...]
Windows Live Translator New Languages Coming
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Microsoft's Windows Live Translator is evolving and, in this context, new languages are just around the corner. According to Will Lewis, a program manager on the Microsoft Translator team, the Redmond company is ready to take out of the oven new pairs of translation systems, but failed to offer any deadline as to when the [...]
Microsoft, Closer and Closer to the Anti-Apple Panacea
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Apple had no problems whatsoever in leveraging the weight of its brand in order to kick Windows Vista while the operating system was down. But the time is drawing near when Microsoft will no longer be a silent and passive participant in the Apple monologue marketing show. The Redmond company has been building up its [...]
Windows 7 Beta Is on the Horizon, Forget XP SP3 and Vista SP1
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008The first Beta of Windows 7 is on the horizon, and in this context it's right about time to look beyond Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1. The next iteration of the Windows client has been a palpable presence only through the Milestone 1 build dropped at the end of [...]
Windows Small Business Server 2008 Has RTM’ed
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Windows Small Business Server 2008 has been released to manufacturing. This in the context in which Microsoft was dropping the first public preview of the Windows Server 2008-based products in Release Candidate 0 stage at the end of May 2008. With the code for both the Standard and Premium SKUs of Windows Small Business Server [...]
Introducing Microsoft AutoCollage 2008
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008While Photosynth has been released to web in August, ending the Technology Preview incubation at Microsoft Live Labs, there are additional projects at the software giant designed to deliver new experiences when it comes down to the digital photographs. One illustrative example in this context is AutoCollage (also referred to as tapestry), a project developed [...]
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