Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

Microsoft Equipt: $69/year Subscription for Microsoft Office 2007 + Live OneCare

Published on July 2nd, 2008   Filed Under Technology   0 Comments

Microsoft will offer annual subscriptions for Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student edition with Live OneCare for $70/year. Dubbed as Microsoft Equipt, the package will be available from Circuit City stores in the US starting from mid-July.
The software bundle includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote, Windows Live OneCare security software and Windows Live tools. Windows Live [...]

Image Resizer PowerToy Clone for non-XP Windows

Published on May 9th, 2008   Filed Under Tools, Windows   5 Comments

Windows XP has some nice add-ons called powertoys, these are quite useful and increase your productivity. Out of these Image Resizer is the most useful, you don’t need to open Photoshop to just resize an image or a bunch of images, Image Resizer powertoy will do that for you in a mouse click. But this [...]

Windows XP Service Pack 3 is Now Available

Published on May 6th, 2008   Filed Under Microsoft, Windows   2 Comments

After delaying for a week Microsoft finally made available the Windows XP Service Pack 3. Visit the Microsoft Update page to download SP3, it is not yet pushed via Windows Automatic Update, but you can download it from the Update page.
“Windows XP SP3 includes all previously released updates for the operating system, in addition [...]

Microsoft Live Mesh Tech Preview Launches

Published on April 23rd, 2008   Filed Under Microsoft   1 Comment

Microsoft has launched a tech preview of its new service called Live Mesh. Live Mesh is a kind of all in one solution to online storage, web OS and file syncing. Currently it only supports windows PCs but you can expect Mac and Mobile support by the end of the year. Using this app you [...]

Download Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1

Published on March 5th, 2008   Filed Under Microsoft, Technology   2 Comments

Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 today. The new browser shows many improvements, standards compliance.
New features
Activities: “Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any page.” It works like this, suppose you are on a restaurent web page and wants to see where it is located, this is a form [...]

Internet Explorer 8 Enters Private Beta

Published on February 24th, 2008   Filed Under Microsoft   2 Comments

Microsoft sent our invitation letters to beta testers to participate in Inter explorer 8 beta 1. Other than the invitation there are not many details about IE8, this will be released soon to the general public.
According to ZDNet, Microsoft will show off IE 8 at Microsoft’s Mix 08 conference in early March in Las [...]

Microsoft PDF Plugin for Office 2007

Published on February 24th, 2008   Filed Under Microsoft   0 Comments

Microsoft is offering an official save as PDF or XPS plugin for Office 2007. This plugin allows you to export and save Micorosoft Office 2007 documents in PDF and XPS format, you can also send these PDF and XPS files as attachments with some of the Office programs.
To download the plugin you need to verify [...]

Windows Live SkyDrive Now Offers 5GB Storage, Leaves Beta

Published on February 21st, 2008   Filed Under Microsoft, Technology   2 Comments

Microsoft has increased the Live SkyDrive space from 1GB to 5GB. They increased the SkyDrive storage space back in October from 500MB to 1GB and introduced RSS feeds.

Along with 4GB bump SkyDrive is now out of beta. Earlier it was only available in US, UK and India but now they have expanded it to other [...]