Chart Advisor is a prototype Excel Add-In that appears as a button on the Insert ribbon next to the standard charting tools. It attempts to automate the process of chart generation by using an advanced rules engine to scan your data for properties that inherently make good charts. It will generate some charts, rank them, and display the set as thumbnails in a new dialog. From this dialog you can manipulate the charts by changing how the data is mapped and filter out data from the chart. When done, you can insert the chart back into the spreadsheet.
Microsoft's MapPoint 2009 gives you the power to visualize business data and communicate insights with instant impact. Before you hit the road, plug in your stops and MapPoint plots the most efficient course with turn-by-turn driving directions. MapPoint 2009 with GPS Locator adds routing and directions to easily plan your trips and track your location in real-time. (Thanks Chris)
AIM for Windows Mobile-- Stay connected with AIM Instant Messaging on your Windows Mobile (versions 5 and 6) smartphones.
AIM for Windows Mobile Features:
Best-in-Class Experience: It's easy to get started with AIM for Windows Mobile. Send and respond to IMs and seamlessly manage multiple conversations. Even illustrate your point with emoticons - just like you do on the desktop.
Real-time Status Updates: Customize your AIM status with a special message, or update your presence - Available, Away, or Invisible - whenever you're on the move.
Manage your Contacts: View and manage your Buddy List and Buddy Groups. See your friends' buddy icons and check their availability before you IM them. Or add a new buddy wherever you are.
Desktops allows you to organize your applications on up to four virtual desktops. Read email on one, browse the web on the second, and do work in your productivity software on the third, without the clutter of the windows you’re not using. After you configure hotkeys for switching desktops, you can create and switch desktops either by clicking on the tray icon to open a desktop preview and switching window, or by using the hotkeys.
Microsoft has released the first full release of Photosynth. -- Photosynth takes a collection of regular photographs and reconstructs the scene or object in a 3-D environment. For those of you who have seen the videos or tried Microsoft's tech preview, you could experience synths that they made in their lab and get a feel for what Photosynth is and how it works. But now, for the first time ever you can create synths from your own pictures and share them with your friends.
Ready to Make Your Own Synth? This first version of Photosynth has some limitations that you need to be aware of:
All synths are uploaded. They're big, so you need to use a broadband Internet connection.
All synths are public. Your photos will be visible to everyone on the Internet.
Like the viewing experience, the "synther" only runs on PCs (XP and Vista).
Email Prioritizer is a plug-in for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (running on Exchange Server) that helps you manage email overload. This concept test provides a “do not disturb” button that temporarily pauses new email arrival, and prioritizes email with a 0-3 star rating system. We hope this prototype helps you focus on the emails that are most important to you.
Workstation Migration Assistant 1.02 - visual wrapper for the User State Migration Tool, designed to simplify the capture / restore process for your end-users.
A few minor updates, requests and bug fixes:
NEW: Added Target OS Option under Advanced Settings
NEW: Added MigrationExclusionsOlderThanDays option to config. This is ignored if set to 0 (default), but will exclude all accounts not logged in within the specified period, ie. 90 days. This uses USMT’s /UEL: parameter
CHANGE: If MaxMigrationSize is set to 0, there is no limit to the migration size
FIX: Under certain conditions, progress monitoring would continue even when the migration was finished or cancelled
pptPlex is a plug-in that explores an alternate method for presenting a PowerPoint slide deck. Using pptPlex, you can present your slides as a tour through a zoomable canvas instead of a series of linear slides.
Edison is a free energy monitoring application that allows eco-conscious consumers to actively control their PC’s energy consumption – and their household’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. (Thanks Francois)
EDISON Features:
Scheduling – allows users to identify work and non-work schedules to optimize power schemes based on when the PC is in use or on standby.
Settings – provides several options of desired power savings and settings. Simply choose the most appropriate and it applies 24x7x365.
Estimated Savings Reports – offers information that correlates PC power settings to money, kWh and CO2 savings.
Intuitive User Interface – easy to use sliding bars help consumers choose settings and instantly see the power and monetary savings. Clearly marked tabs help users navigate through the interface.
With the Olympics beginning tomorrow, the entire world will see Microsoft's next generation web platform Silverlight. Microsoft created the "NBC Olympics" Website - and it is indeed gorgeous!
Because people bring their "expectations" from one website to another! People will look at YOUR website and wonder why it's not as "good" as the "NBC Olympics" Website
Is it fair for your website to be compared with a website designed by a staff that's probably much bigger than yours? Nope!
But that doesn't matter -- people bring their "expectations" from one website to another!
Microsoft Surface Order Form v1.0 - Pursuant to the attached Terms, submit this Order Form to order Surface Commercial Hardware Units, Surface Developer Hardware Units, additional SDK Software, and/or Services. All orders are subject to approval of credit. Shipment and/or services will be subject to availability of units and/or service support. This Order Form and the Terms are your Agreement with Microsoft for this Microsoft Surface order.
PRICING:
$12,500 = Surface Commercial Hardware Unit – Metal, Black, & White
$15,000 = Surface Developer Hardware Unit – Metal & Black
Speed Launch is an application launcher that extends the functionality and usability of Microsoft Windows XP & Windows Vista. With Speed Launch, users can select their own words to open frequently used websites, documents, and applications. The most compelling feature of Speed launch is the use of a drag and drop interaction model to make this advanced functionality more intuitive to novice computer users.
Microsoft's FrameIt easily creates a "media slideshow" using your collection of photos and other media sources to be displayed on your digital picture frames. While this appears to simply a service for loading images onto your digital picture frames -- because you can also easily include other ("mash-up") web services (i.e. news, RSS, Custom) it's really more like PopFly for our Grand Parents! (Thanks Cynthia)
Select from FrameIT's Digital Media Collection:
PHOTO SHARING SITES:
FrameIT Collection (Media from another FrameIT collection)
Saveen was tired of looking for features within Microsoft Office Vista and also wanted the ability to automate common Visio tasks. So he created a useful program for himself -- that we all can freely use too! (^_^)
SocialMedian - a new social news network that is working on solving the information overload problem, opened its website to the public today.
SocialMedian Launch Features:
Anyone and everyone will now be able to use socialmedian without an invite code
New homepage for unregistered users
Instantly Tweet any news story from socialmedian on Twitter. Just click the "share" button from any story.
A vastly improved News Network creation tool which will make it easy for anyone to create a well-functioning News Network. (Note: If you have created a News Network during the alpha you will get a special email from us later today regarding the changes).
Major improvements to how we search for stories in News Networks (now live!)
Major improvements to location-based News Networks (now live!)
New guided setup for new users (now live!)
Follow other users as Newsmakers and get your news through them, (and get followed yourself) (now live!)
Invite Twitter, Gmail, Hotmail contacts to join your News Networks
A new "noise level" meter for each news network -- each individual can set their own volume level for a particular news network to customize how much or little noise you want to allow in. We launched this for people who create news networks today. This will be fully in place for all users by end of week.
Add descriptions, pictures, and welcome messages to your News Networks to help other people decide whether to join Easily link your favorite sites to your socialmedian profile (e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, FriendFeed, etc.).
Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Phone Edition enables you to make outbound audio calls and answer inbound phone calls from callers (PBX, PSTN, VoIP or soft-phone callers) and provides this functionality from inside or outside the company firewall. In short, you can do everything you can do today with your regular phone - and more.
With Office Communicator 2007 Phone Edition, you have new voice communication capabilities not available with your traditional desktop phone. For example you can:
Set call-handling options to forward calls to another number or contact, so you can get calls on your mobile phone, for example, when you’re not in the office
Configure your presence and view the presence for your Contacts
Touch-to-call a contact without needing to look up their phone number
Easily initiate calls to contacts, transfer calls and conference callers together
Play individual voicemails without needing to go through the full voicemail menu
Search for and call people in your company’s global address list (GAL) without needing to look up their phone number
As a Microsoft blogger, here's MY obligatory link to Microsoft’s "Mojave Experiment"(^_^)
Welcome to the "Mojave Experiment" What do people think of Windows Vista when they don't know it's Windows Vista? Microsoft disguised Windows Vista as codename "Mojave," the "next Microsoft OS" so regular people who've never used Windows Vista could see what it can do - and decide for themselves.
Microsoft's Deep Zoomallows users to explore collections of super high resolution imagery, from a 2 or 3 megapixel shot from a digital camera to gigapixel scans of museum pieces, all without waiting for huge file downloads. The simple zooming interface allows users to explore entire collections down to specific details in extreme close-up, all with fantastic performance and smooth transitions.
We've all played with programs like Group Shoot that stitch photographs together -- but Microsoft's first public demo of Photosynth showed this was possible in 3 Dimensions!
Our near future includes many mobile devices with both GPSs & Cameras. It will be trivial for our pictures to be uploaded to the Internet with tagged geo-coded information.
Even better --most people will have no clue nor care about "geo-coding"! They'll simply think it's cool their pictures are placed on a map, and automatically stitched into a Photosynth 3D World!
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