January 5, 2010 23:38 pm by Jal
Microsoft Office 2010 has already created a very positive impression since its betas were out for the general public. People finally seemed to be much satisfied with Office 2010 which not only ironed out some ‘wrinkles’ in Office 2007 but also added some
really useful features. Today Microsoft revealed the prices of different flavors of Office 2010 which are represented in the table below.
| Office Home and Student |
Office Home and Business |
Office Professional |
Office Professional Academic |
| Full Packaged Product:
$149 |
Full Packaged Product:
$279 |
Full Packaged Product:
$499 |
Full Packaged Product:
$99 |
| Product Key Card:
$119 |
Product Key Card:
$199 |
Product Key Card:
$349 |
Not Applicable |
Click here to learn about Product Key Card.
Notes:
1) The Office Home and Student version is not for commercial, revenue generating activities. (umm.. well ok!)
2) The Office Professional Academic is available through authorized academic resellers only.
You can visit the Microsoft’s official declaration here. Download the detailed guide here.
January 2, 2010 11:00 am by Jal
December 3, 2009 7:03 am by Jal
The much anticipated
Bing Maps Beta service is up and running. As suspected, the new Bing Maps Beta relies on
Silverlight 3. I just had a quick glance of it and thought of writing the about its striking new features.
» The new Silverlight interface of the Bing Maps Beta is downright awesome.
» The navigation/zoom-pan is smooth and the maps itself are much accurate than the current version of Bing Maps. [Why Bing Maps is not accurate?]
» Streetside [New Feature] – This is Bing’s answer to Google Maps’ Streetview.
» [New Feature] Photosynth content generated by its users is now integrated to Bing Maps Beta so that you can explore the 3D Photosynth pictures of the location.
» [New Feature] Traffic data helps you keep track of traffic congestion in your city.
» [New Feature] The round up of all the new features presented in Map Apps.
With lots of improvements, the Bing Maps looks amazing and shows the potential to stand out as a solid rival to Google Maps. It will be quite a while for the final version of new Bing Maps to come out. Till then…explore the Bing Maps Beta.
December 3, 2009 1:01 am by Jal
Not a big news but yes, Bing did make some pleasing changes to its Bing US site by introducing ‘History’ on its homepage and a nice hover-over effect to the links which open up new links in a menu. Seems like some Ajax voodoo to me. Go to
Bing US site and check it out.
New set of features are being introduced in Bing and according to Neowin some of the new features may include a ‘Bing Explorer’, a Silverlight version of Bing maps and may be a Wolfram Alpha integration. We can just speculate as of now. By the way, Bing UK and Bing US have already removed the ‘Beta’ tag.
November 25, 2009 22:28 pm by Jal
Microsoft wants to bring a big smile on your faces this holiday season. From the very next day after Thanksgiving, Microsoft will uncover lots of hot deals on their online Microsoft Store. Here is a glimpse of what’s coming:
» Free Lenovo S10 netbook upon buying a Lenovo T400 or X301 notebook, or A600 All-in-one desktop PC.
» Free ground shipping on everything for a limited period of time.
» $70 Discount on Office Home & Student 2007. Now available at just $79.99. Or save almost $80 on Office Small Business Edition.
» Buy an Xbox Elite Console and get 3-month subscription to Xbox LIVE FREE.
» 30% off on selected Xbox accessories.
» Get $50 discount on HP Photosmart Printer.
» Buy an Xbox Premium Console + Beatles Rock Band and Save $50.
» Buy any desktop or laptop (Netbooks excluded) and get $50 discount on any monitor.
These deals are worth a loot and are certainly for a limited period of time. Go to Microsoft Store for more details.
Deals start at 12:01 AM EST Friday, November 27, 2009.
November 20, 2009 13:24 pm by Jal
Today’s technological scenario is all about integration and making every task simpler and every information easily accessible. Well, similar are the thoughts of UXLabs at Microsoft. They have created a very sleek Facebook client application that brings the complete Facebook experience right on your Windows desktop –
Fishbowl.
Although in a ‘trial’ (beta) stage, Fishbowl offers some features that surely will excite Facebook power users. Apart from the seamless integration with Facebook, here are some of the plus points of Fishbowl:
» Fishbowl offers mini-mode which is more fun and less obtrusive.
» Smooth user interface and sleek navigation. It supports drag n’ drop pictures to publish them on Facebook. Furthermore, it can go full screen and play a slideshow of your albums.
» You can update your status, view your friends’ albums, their updates, news-feeds and other notifications.
» “Interest Level”, my favorite feature, helps you filter your stream anonymously in order to avoid boring updates from friends.
» If you are a Windows 7 user, you can monitor your Facebook stream right from your taskbar using jumplists.
If you want to give it a try then click the link below.
Download Fishbowl / 6.6mb
November 11, 2009 1:39 am by Jal
Microsoft SyncToy needs no introduction. It is an excellent freeware utility that syncs files and folders and is mostly used for sharing multimedia and documents across computers and also used for backing up important data.
Microsoft has released its updated version, SyncToy 2.1, with some new features and improvements to meet the Windows 7 standards. The new SyncToy 2.1 has native 64bit support and is available for both (x86 and x64) architectures.
SyncToy 2.1’s help section enlists these new features:
» New Platform: SyncToy 2.1 uses the latest synchronization engine from Microsoft Sync Framework 2.0.
» Better Performance: File copy speed is significantly increased.
» Exclusion Filtering Based on Name: File exclusion based on name with exact or fuzzy matching.
» Improved Robustness: Instead of failing the whole synchronization session on an unknown single file error (including network issues), SyncToy 2.1 flags the error and continues with the remaining files.
Download Microsoft SyncToy 2.1 / 3.5mb
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