A couple of hours ago Microsoft Research released the first public beta of Worldwide Telescope since it’s debut last month. The software is a seamless combination of various state-of-the-art Microsoft technologies including Live Lab’s Photosynth and Seadragon with of course the magical high-resolution pictures from numerous imaging satellites including the Hubble. Those who’ve played with it already will probably agree with how breathtaking the experience is.
Microsoft likes digital
photography enthusiasts as customers, and on Thursday plans to release
a free new utility designed to keep them wedded to Windows.
Pro Photo Tools
is geared for photography professionals and enthusiasts, and its first
notable feature is the ability to geotag photos, or add geographic
information showing where the picture was taken. Geotagging is an
onerous chore with today's technology, but camera makers are working to
build it into cameras, and it can pay off down the road.
Link: CNet
Search
Commands helps you find commands, options, wizards, and galleries in Microsoft
Office 2007 Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Just type what you’re looking for in
your own words and click the command you need. Search Commands also includes
Guided Help, which acts as a tour guide for specific tasks.
Even if the ribbon interface is great...sometimes we search for some feature
& tats the time this helps!
Please note, this is only supported on English 32 & 64 bit versions of
Microsoft Office 2007 Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Download: Office 2007 Search Command ) @ Microsoft Office Labs
You have been invited to the 2008 Servers and Tools Community Launch on Wednesday , April 30th, 2008.
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Interact with the Professionals around you, learn something new, and enjoy your time hanging out with the Community, this Wednesday at the Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT) from 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM!
NOTE: This session will be in conjunction with the Jordan SharePoint User Group Monthly Meeting
For Directions to the Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Click Here.
For more Information please contact:
Ayman Farouk @ 0795727344
Najeeb Jarrar @ 0788630145
We'll be looking forward to seeing you there!
We
are excited to introduce “The Server Unleashed” ad campaign featuring
Windows Server 2008 personified as a robot delivering super-human
reliability, stability, management and security. Just as Windows Server
is not your average server, this is not your average campaign. The
website provides great resources like case studies, product information
and downloads and even cool screensavers….check it out!
Why “IT24-7?”
Across
IT infrastructures, both integration and consolidation are happening at
ever increasing rates. This can bring huge benefits for IT Pros and
enterprises, but it also puts great pressure on the server OS to
deliver unprecedented levels of security, manageability and
reliability. As the infrastructure becomes more interconnected, the OS
must deliver rock-solid reliability.
Windows
Server 2008 is up to the challenge. As positioned in our integrated
campaign, Windows Server 2008 is the innovative must-have solution to
meet the stringent new demands of the changing IT infrastructure.
Windows Server 2008, with its significant improvements and innovations,
delivers the game-changing reliability needed to run a changing IT
infrastructure.
To
bring this to life we created the Server Unleashed campaign which rests
squarely on the strong shoulders of the “IT24-7” Robot, who embodies
innovation, strength, and unstoppable reliability. The IT24-7 robot is
the server’s potential unleashed. It is a server OS that finally
combines the forward-thinking features that IT Pros want with the
never-failing reliability that they need.
More @ Source
With Service Pack 3 for
Windows XP just over the horizon, we’ve managed to get our hands on the
internal schedule for the release of the highly anticipated update to the aging
operating system. As you can see in the list below, most of the stages will
occur before the end of the month, though forced automatic updates won’t land
until June. This delay should give system administrators an ample amount of
time to prepare for the upgrade or simply come up with an excuse when things go
awry.
- April
14, 2008: Support is available for the release version of Service Pack 3
for Windows XP
- April
21, 2008: Original Equipment Manufacturers, Volume License, Connect, and
MSDN and TechNet subscribers
- April
29, 2008: Microsoft Update, Windows Update, Download Center
- June 10,
2008: Automatic Updates
More details about Service
Pack 3 for Windows XP available in
PDF at Microsoft’s site.
Microsoft has released its first preview of
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008, a re-named and re-designed
version of its 2006 robotics studio software.
Microsoft
Robotics Studio 06, according to the company, had over 200,000 copies
downloaded and over 50 companies in the partner program. Today's update
was unveiled at the Robobusiness Conference and Exposition in
Pittsburgh, the same conference that hosted the premiere of the earlier
version.
This version promises better runtime performance,
improved distributed computing capabilities with LINQ support, and some
new tools. The virtual simulation environment (VSE), for example,
received the ability to record and playback simulations and a new
floorplan editor.
The software is freely downloadable
for noncommercial applications, and with its availability, Microsoft
also announced a virtual robotics competition launching on April 21.
Robochamps (site requires Silverlight) will see Microsoft paired up with SimplySim in getting users of all skill levels to experiment using Robotics Developer Studio and simulate their results.
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Don't you miss The Great Lecture
By
Sergei
Vassilvitskii
Research Scientist in Search
technologies
@
Yahoo -
Research
Computational Advertising:
Past Successes and Current Challenges
Sunday 13/4/2008
Princess Sumaya University for
Technology (PSUT)
Loui Shammout
Auditorium
Dear All
You are all invited to join us for another Jordev Community Night, this Wednesday, March 26, at PSUT. (Princess Sumaya University for Technology)
For more information regarding the location of the Community Night, please contact:
Ayman Farouk: 079-5727344
Najeeb Jarrar: 078-8630145
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Microsoft has made the announcement at its Microsoft
Research TechFest 2008 event in Redmond, that the Singularity Research
Development Kit (RDK) 1.1 is now available for academic non-commercial use. You
can download it from Microsoft's open source code project hosting website.
Singularity
is a Microsoft Research project started in 2003 to build a highly-dependable
microkernal operating system in which the kernel, device drivers, and
applications are all written in managed code. More than 90% of the OS kernel is
written in Sing#, an extension of the C# high-level programming language.
The key developers of Singularity, Galen Hunt and Jim Larus, have said that all
current operating systems such as Windows, Linux and MacOS can be traced back
to an operating system called Multics, which has its origins in the 1960s. In
effect, current operating systems are still based, in part, on thoughts and
criteria from 40 years ago.
Link: WinVistaClub.
Read
full story at neowin...
Microsoft has put in place the preparations for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 ready for Mix 08.
A full features page has been revealed which lists the following additions to Internet Explorer:
- Activities
- WebSlices
- Favorites Bar
- Automatic Crash Recovery
- Improved Phishing Filter
Activities
allow users to lookup/send information in a right-click contextual
menu, such as retrieving an address map from Windows Live Maps,
submitting a story to Digg, sharing a page on Facebook etc. WebSlices
allows users to crop a specific area section of a site and bookmark it.
Improvements have been made to the phishing filter which continues to
block known Phishing sites and now blocks sites known to contain
malicious software that could harm users’ computer or steal their
information.
Perhaps one of the best new features is Automatic
Crash Recovery which recovers your tabs if your browser crashes. It is
widely expected that Microsoft will release the first beta of Internet
Explorer 8 at this years Mix 08 which begins today.
View: Internet Explorer 8 New Features
Download: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
Source Neowin
If
you are an IT Pro, Developer or have some passion to Microsoft
products, I advise you to register to attend the below event for
launching MS Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and MS Visual Studio
2008 that will take place at Hayatt Amman Hotel And Zara Expo March 11
http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/eastmed/launch2008/learn-more/downloads.aspx
This is gonna be one of the biggest events for MS this year…
Btw, you can download trial versions of these products from the same registration link below..
Did you know that MSN messenger recently became the number one instant messenger in the world? Last summer, thanks to the efforts of Helvecio on our team, the MTBot prototype
project quietly launched – to provide a glimpse to the community of
28.6 million unique messenger users what might be possible when you
combine machine translation technology with instant messaging.
The
MTBot prototype project was released in May 2007 with the main goal to
try to understand how useful machine translation would be in IM
conversations. The bot acts as a human translator, participating in
conferences and translating messages as they are sent by all parties.
A
typical usage scenario would be something like this: let's assume you
have a friend in Japan that does not speak English... Well, you would
add MTBot-en_us@hotmail.com to your Live messenger
buddy list, wait until the bot accepts your request (by switching
status to Online) and then you would start your conversation by sending
the "Hello" message... The Bot is going to wake up, and display a list
of languages - enter "ja" for Japanese. Once it gets a valid connection
the Bot will tell you to invite your friend to join the conversation.
That's it... From this point on, everything you type will be translated
from English to Japanese, and everything your friend types will be
translated from Japanese to English.
Another typical use is as
portable translator: using Messenger from any Smartphone a user can
translate simple sentences when traveling to other countries.
As with any prototype effort, do keep in mind that this is
experimental and there is a possibility the bot might be offline from
time to time. The usual caveats about the quality of machine
translation also apply.
We always appreciate your feedback and suggestions – so feel free to do so on this thread.
Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/
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