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Vista Sidebar Gadget for WHS (Windows Home Server) users
2008-05-03 21:32:00
The Home Server Hacks blog has just announced a new Windows Vista Sidebar gadget just for Windows Home Server users. This gadget, called "ShareMaster for Home Server," gives you quick access to the Windows Home Server's standard shared folders (Music, Photos, Public, Software, Users and Videos). The gadget has six icons on it that correspond to those six shared folders on the server. Clicking an icon on the gadget will open up that network shared folder. What's even cooler, though, is that you can drag and drop files onto the icons themselves to automatically move them from your PC to your Home Server. That's handy! This is definitely a must-have tool for any Windows Home Server owners. You can download the gadget from here. (image via Home Server Hacks) Source Taimur Asad (The Microsoft "Wow" Blog!)
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MSN Video/Soapbox Vista Sidebar Gadget now available
2008-05-03 21:25:00
David Cronshaw and I chat about the new MSN Video /Soapbox Vista Sidebar Gadget which is now available for download.  The official MSN Video/Soapbox Vista Sidebar Gadget is now available for downloading and installing: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.as px?li=b4ea67a2-5cb6-4a15-8ae1-048cccaf8ff c&bt=1 Some of the Highlights of the MSN Video Vista Sidebar Gadget:  Display Localized MSN Videos with links to MSN Video Destination Site Display Soapbox Videos and play natively Inline Localized for over 30 countries and languages Top-Level market Navigation Numerous Sort-by options Display Search terms Display Related Videos Customize number of thumbs and pages to show Auto-scroll Pages at defined intervals And much more?? Source Taimur Asad (The Microsoft "Wow" Blog!)

Xbox 360 Blu-ray console shipping by September?
2008-05-03 15:30:00
For all of Microsoft's denial, the Xbox 360 Blu-ray console rumors just will not die. In fact, they are getting more and more specific. The Chinese language Economic Daily News is reporting that Pegatron, an OEM subsidiary of ASUS, has won the order from Microsoft to assemble the Xbox 360 with Blu-ray Disc ROM drive -- shipments are expected to being in Q3 of this year. Now come on Microsoft, just come clean on the matter, we won't tell anyone. Source: engadget         Taimur Asad (The Microsoft "Wow" Blog!)
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Good news for TechNet Plus subscribers looking for XP SP3
2008-05-03 12:36:00
The full Windows XP install with SP3 integrated (also referred to as the Slipstream build) is now available for Tech Net Plus subscribers to download.  The following languages are currently available: Chinese-Simplified, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese-Brazil, and Spanish.  Additional languages will be added as they become available so watch on TechNet Plus Downloads for new languages. Download now at: http://technet.microsoft.com/subscription s/downloads/default.aspx Taimur Asad (The Microsoft "Wow" Blog!)
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Microsoft Expression Studio 2 Ships, Advancing Superior Developer and Desig
2008-05-02 15:45:00
Microsoft Corp. today delivered on its commitment to rapid innovation for the newest Microsoft platforms and latest Web technologies by announcing the release of Expression Studio 2. The suite of professional design tools includes Expression Web 2, Expression Blend 2, Expression Design 2, Expression Media 2 and Expression Encoder 2 and works seamlessly with Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008, solving the age-old designer and developer workflow challenge. The innovations in Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML), used by both Expression Studio and Visual Studio, allow for unprecedented designer-developer collaboration for the creation of both standards-based and Microsoft Silverlight-enhanced Web experiences as well as Windows Vista and .NET Framework 3.5 client applications. Geotagging with Virtual Earth: Take advantage of geotagged images with Virtual Earth integration. View more high-res screen shots. In line with the team?s commitment to short release cycles, Expre...
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HTC Touch Find
2008-04-30 21:53:00
HTC is making many models of phones nowadays, of which several are almost the same. Here comes HTC Touch Find - yet another member of HTC Touch family: Specifications: GPRS, UMTS, HSDPA, GPS Quad Band: 850/900/1800/1900 Mhz Display 2.8'' Touch Screen with 65K colors Operating System: Windows Mobile 6.0 connectivity: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi primary camera: 3.0 Mpixel FM radio, GPS included TomTom GPS navigation software with one free map (of one selected city) QVGA display (320x240) This phone will be on sale in Italy for 599 Euro. We will see on May 6 several new Windows Mobile phones announced but obviously some phones from HTC Touch series are rather evolutionary than revolutionary enhancements - what may be not bad after all... although we would recommend spending a bit more money and getting a phone with VGA display (640x480 pixels) instead - it makes a huge difference! Source: msmobiles Taimur Asad (The Microsoft "Wow" Blog!)

Microsoft cuts Xbox 360 prices in Asia
2008-04-30 19:56:00
Microsoft is ratcheting up the battle against rivals Sony and Nintendo in the hotly contested Asia n market, cutting the price of its Xbox 360 between 5 percent and nearly 20 percent in four areas throughout the region. The price of the 20GB model was cut 17 percent in Taiwan, 10.7 percent in Hong Kong, and 5 percent in South Korea. The steepest reduction was made in Singapore, where that version of the gaming console dropped 19.5 percent and the company cut the price of two other models: The 120GB Elite was reduced 12.5 percent and the Arcade, which has no hard drive, was cut by 13 percent. At the same time, Sony went in the opposite direction in Singapore and raised prices for its 40GB PlayStation 3 to $394. Nintendo, for its part, said late last week that it had no plans to cut prices on either the Wii console or its DS handheld in any regions. "This price drop is part of Microsoft's ongoing strategy to bring Xbox's high-definition gaming and entertainment experience to an ...
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Mike Klucher: XNA Framework games running on Zune
2008-04-29 16:15:00
Mike Klucher talks about building XNA Framework games for the Zune and shows the soon-to-be-released CTP that enables developers to build Zune projects, adds a new menu on your Zune for games, and also enables device debugging directly from Visual Studio. For more information, go to creators.xna.com. Low res versionMP4 version Taimur Asad (The Microsoft "Wow" Blog!)
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Search Command for Office Ribbon. Official Download!
2008-04-28 15:34:00
Search Command s 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. Click here to download. Requirements:32 bit Windows XP or Windows Vista. Office 2007. Limitations: English only. Works with Word, Excel and PowerPoint only. Last updated: 04/23/2008 Taimur Asad (The Microsoft "Wow" Blog!)
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Virtual Machine Snapshots with Hyper-V
2008-04-27 23:20:00
Snapshots are a new feature of Windows Server 2008 Hyper -V. Snapshots are a point in time version of a virtual machine?..what does that mean you ask? It means that you can be running a virtual machine, take a snapshot and at any point you can select a previous snapshot and revert back to that point in time.  You end up with the virtual machine in the EXACT configuration that it was when you took the snapshot?and I mean exact?.memory, virtual hardware, processes, state, etc. So you can have a running virtual machine, take a snapshot, change the virtual hardware configuration, format the disk and install a different OS, it does not matter, when you apply the previous snapshot it looks exactly like it did when you took the snapshot. Snapshots do not affect the running state of the virtual machine, meaning that taking a snapshot does not change the virtual machine hardware, applications, or the currently running processes. It also means that deleting a snapshot does not change the virt...
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Gates talks Google, Vista and (maybe) Yahoo
2008-04-25 23:15:00
Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited bid to acquire Yahoo Inc. is still up in the air, but maybe it's inevitable in the eyes of Bill Gates . During an appearance Friday afternoon at the University of Washington, the Microsoft chairman at one point referred to his company as if it were second in Internet search. In reality, Microsoft is in third place in search market share -- although it would move into second place, still well behind Google , if it's able to bring Yahoo into its fold. "Often if you're No. 2 -- and in this case, a distant No. 2 -- you can try harder, so to speak, and try out new things that are quite different," Gates said when discussing Microsoft's technological ambitions in Internet search. Whether it was a slip or a sign of Microsoft's determination to finish the deal, the comment was the closest Gates came to even alluding to the acquisition drama. But he touched on many other topics during the event ? which felt like a combination homecoming and farewel...
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Microsoft Launches New Windows Vista Ultimate Extras
2008-04-23 13:25:00
Despite no announcement being made on UltimatePC.com, Microsoft have released a new sound scheme and a content pack for Windows DreamScene as part of its Windows Vista Ultimate Extras offerings for customers who purchased the Ultimate edition of Vista.After installing the sound pack customers get Ultimate Extras Pearl and Glass sound schemes and additional Windows DreamScene Content. exclusive to Windows Vista Ultimate only! Source: Neowin Taimur Asad (The Microsoft "Wow" Blog!)

Live Mesh Technology Preview Announced
2008-04-23 13:21:00
Today Microsoft is unveiling a technology preview to a really neat new software+services platform called Live Mesh . Live Mesh is a brand new platform that helps your devices act together through the internet enabling users such as you and me to manage, access, and share their files and applications from nearly anywhere. By bringing user's files, applications, and devices together along with the combination of social networking (such as with news feeds) - Live Mesh creates a unique platform experience. First and foremost Live Mesh is a new platform.  The first phase of the technology preview process provides a foundational experience that exposes core concepts and functionality of the platform.  In the near future developers can expect to be able to take advantage of Live Mesh to extend their software to the Web, and their services to the desktop and devices. Today's technology preview is a pre-Beta release designed to get early feedback to make the platform even better. I've b...
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Windows Server 2008 IT 24-7 Robot Wallpapers, Screensavers and Buddy Icons
2008-04-22 21:04:00
Check out Windows Server 2008 Unleashed's IT 24-7 Robot   Wallpapers in 4 Action Poses in 8 different screen resolutions. Download from here, For each screen resolution there are 4 different poses wallpaper : 1920 x 1200 = IT 24-7 Robot Pose A, B, C, D 1600 x 1200 = IT 24-7 Robot Pose A, B, C, D 1600 x 1050 = IT 24-7 Robot Pose A, B, C, D 1440 x 900 = IT 24-7 Robot Pose A, B, C, D 1280 x 1024 = IT 24-7 Robot Pose A, B, C, D 1280 x 960 = IT 24-7 Robot Pose A, B, C, D 1280 x 800 = IT 24-7 Robot Pose A, B, C, D 1024 x 768 = IT 24-7 Robot Pose A, B, C, D Also check out the IT 24-7 Screensavers : I.T. 24/7 Robot Screensaver #1 (size : 9 MB) I.T. 24/7 Robot Screensaver #2 (size : 12 MB) And the Buddy Icons : http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver200 8/en/us/serverunleashed/default.html Here is IT 24-7 in one of the poses as shown in wallpaper Source: meraTechPort Taimur Asad (The Microsoft "Wow" Blog!)

Leaked Details of Windows 7 M1 March 2008 Edition Version 6.1 Build 6574.1
2008-04-21 22:43:00
Windows 7 is alive and kicking, and despite the fact that Microsoft has gagged the details about the next iteration of Windows almost to perfection, details managed to slip through the Redmond giant's fingers. The initial Windows 7 Milestone 1 build was dropped at the end of 2007, and in early January 2008, only to close partners of the company. But the development of Windows 7 has moved along since version 6.1 Build 6519.1.x86.fre.winmain.071220-1525. From build 6519.1, Microsoft went up all the way to Version 6.1 Build 6574.1, reportedly made available in March 2008. But even with the development milestone label of 6.1.6574.1, Windows 7 is still at the Milestone 1 stage as ThinkNext revealed. With this release, the Redmond company has tweaked the installation process of the operating system only superficially, but now the License Agreement references Windows 7 instead of Windows Vista. The next version of Windows still features the same kernel as Vista, the move to MinWin has ye...
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Windows XP Service Pack 3 Released to Manufacturing
2008-04-21 20:29:00
Today we are happy to announce that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has released to manufacturing (RTM). Windows XP SP3 bits are now working their way through our manufacturing channels to be available to OEM and Enterprise customers. We are also in the final stages of preparing for release to the web (i.e. you!) on April 29th, via Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center. Online documentation for Windows XP SP3, such as Microsoft Knowledge Base articles and the Microsoft TechNet Windows XP TechCenter, will be updated then. For customers who use Windows XP at home, Windows XP SP3 Automatic Update distribution for users at home will begin in early summer.  Thanks to everyone here who installed the public betas ? you not only gave us detailed feedback but also helped each other out with timely troubleshooting. Through the beta program we found several important issues and were able to confirm some essential fixes. We couldn?t have done this without you. We will still be moni...
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Hyper-V: How to make sure you are getting the best performance when doing p
2008-04-20 20:03:00
As we have moved from Beta to RC the number of questions I have been getting around Hyper -V performance have grown quite a bit. It?s time to put some tips out on how to avoid some common pitfalls. Pitfall 1: The first and most common has been running without Integration Components (http://blogs.msdn.com/tvoellm/archive/20 08/01/02/hyper-v-integration-components-a nd-enlightenments.aspx )  This is understandable because they are new with Hyper-V and figuring out if they are running is not simple unless you know a few tricks. The IC?s are important because they can improve overall workload performance from 10?s of percent to more commonly 100?s of percent. This is why they are so important. Resolution: Make sure IC?s are installed. I have two tips on how to do this. The first is to connect your VHD?s / Drives to the Virtual Machine using the virtual SCSI controller. What?s nice about this is if your drive shows up is Disk Manager (run diskmgmt.msc) you know you are using IC?s. The virtu...
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Microsoft Plans MSDN Revamp
2008-04-20 19:41:00
Don't look now, but Microsoft is finally working to tune up its Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) site. The effort promises to resolve long-running frustrations developers have encountered working with the online library and resource. Redmond Developer News has learned that Microsoft has assembled a task force to determine how it can improve MSDN, a site that aggregates much of Microsoft's technical content for developers. The task force, which spent much of this week in New York interviewing developers, made a stop last night at the monthly meeting of the NYC .NET Developer's Group held in Microsoft's New York offices. The task force revealed its effort to a group of more than 100 people attending the meeting. "There's great content there. It's very thorough, but from a practical standpoint, it doesn't really meet people's needs," said Brian Hsi, a product manager involved in the effort, who made his pitch at the meeting. "It's kind of static. It's really...
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Microsoft Launches Beta of New All-in-One Service for Consumers
2008-04-19 11:39:00
Microsoft today launched a private beta program for a new service, code-named ?Albany.? PressPass spoke with ?Albany? Group Product Manager Bryson Gordon to learn more about what consumers can expect from the service and what it will enable them to do. PressPass: What is ?Albany?? Gordon: ?Albany? is the codename for a new all-in-one subscription service of essential software and services consumers told us were most important to them. We?ve pulled together the productivity tools people need to organize their lives, security to help keep their personal information safe and online services that make it easy for them to keep in touch with friends and family, and folded them all into a single service that also ensures the user?s PC is running the latest security and productivity software. With just a few clicks, ?Albany? subscribers will be able install the whole package, which includes Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007, giving them the latest versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint ...
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New white paper on the advantages of a Core Install of Windows Server 2008
2008-04-18 20:29:00
Microsoft IT just published a new technical case study called ?Enhancing Availability with a Server Core Installation of Windows Server 2008?. It talks about how they deployed this new install option, which removes applications and components typically associated with client installs, like Internet Explorer, Windows Explorer, Media Player and Windows Mail. They listed several benefits of the new Core install option, including: Reduced management and maintenance  Reduced attack surface  Streamlined installation  Maximized hardware utilization Server Core does not apply to every Windows Server role, but they mention deploying the following scenarios: Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)  Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS)  Domain Name System (DNS) Server service  Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Server service  File services  Hyper-V Internet Information Services (IIS)  Print services  Windows Media Services Here?s a quote from that paper: ?T...
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Microsoft to open Apple-like retail shops
2008-04-14 15:29:00
Our sources close to Microsoft have confirmed that the company wants to reach out for the retail market presence. Microsoft wants to open and create many retail shops dedicated exclusive to Microsoft and its products.This is something that Apple did with its many Apple retail stores around the world. Microsoft will put its retail people in the shops with hope that these skilled people will be able to show the true Microsoft experience.We can only guess that the shop will be filled with lot of software, but it?s likely to include some peripheral stuff such as keyboards and mice as well as some MP3 Zune players. You can count on some computers, but the last paragraph is something we suspect not something that has been confirmed. If they put all that we just listed, it will definitely look like a Microsoft copy of Apple retail stores. Maybe even some windows phones?It worked well for Apple, so Microsoft has the chance. Source: Fudzilla Taimur Asad (The Microsoft "Wow" Blog!)
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Microsoft ready to 'Mesh it up'
2008-04-13 14:55:00
Live Mesh is expected to be a service that synchronizes data between a number of different devices. Microsoft has talked about a long-term vision in which you need to only store things once, in the cloud, and have them appear on various devices. For example, music could be licensed once and appear on multiple gadgets without having to go through the more cumbersome process of transferring it from the original source. Likewise, contacts and other data could more easily be sent down to PCs and other devices. The invitation was short on details, reminding me more of Apple's typical strategy than Microsoft's. A big headline screams "Mesh it up with Microsoft," and it says the evening event will be invitation-only. Additional details have come out since Ozzie's Mix presentation, however, with ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley saying a beta test version is due this month and noting that the product's general manager, Amit Mital, is due to speak at the Web 2.0 conference on April 23. ...
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BlueScreen (BSOD) Screen Saver v3.2 from Microsoft
2008-04-11 21:17:00
Yes you read it right! a BSOD (BlueScreen of Death) screen saver from Microsoft ! One of the most feared colors in the NT world is blue. The infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) will pop up on an NT system whenever something has gone terribly wrong. Bluescreen is a screen saver that not only authentically mimics a BSOD, but will simulate startup screens seen during a system boot. On NT 4.0 installations it simulates chkdsk of disk drives with errors! On Win2K and Windows 9x it presents the Win2K startup splash screen, complete with rotating progress band and progress control updates! On Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 it present the XP/Server 2003 startup splash screen with progress bar! Bluescreen cycles between different Blue Screens and simulated boots every 15 seconds or so. Virtually all the information shown on Bluescreen's BSOD and system start screen is obtained from your system configuration - its accuracy will fool even advanced NT developers. For example, the NT bui...
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Evidence mounting: Windows 7 going modular, subscription
2008-04-10 21:09:00
When Windows 7 launches sometime after the start of 2010, the desktop OS will be Microsoft's most "modular" yet. Having never really been comfortable with the idea of a single, monolithic desktop OS offering, Microsoft has offered multiple desktop OSes in the marketplace ever since the days of Windows NT 3.1, with completely different code bases until they were unified in Windows 2000. Unification isn't necessarily a good thing, however; Windows Vista is a sprawling, complex OS. A singular yet highly modular OS could give Microsoft the best of all possible worlds: OSes that can be highly customized for deployment but developed monolithically. One modular OS to rule them all, let's say.  Mary Jo Foley is wagering that one of the big changes coming with Windows 7 is that it might be "available in pieces." That is to say, Windows 7 could be a modular OS. I'll go further. Windows 7 will be a modular OS, and we can already see the clues in Windows Vista, because ...
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Video review of Windows Mobile 6.1
2008-04-10 17:18:00
Our reporter Alli Flowers was at CTIA 2008 this week, and here is a video review of the newly announced Windows Mobile 6.1: In this video you can see among others: home screen improvements, copy and paste now also in devices without touch-scren, usability improvements in e-mail inbox, threaded text messaging, full web browsing with support for Flash (including support for regular, non-mobile, YouTube site). Now also transcript of Robbie Bach's keynote at CTIA 2008 is available here and Windows Mobile 6.1 was an important part of it: So, that leads us to the next innovation we want to announce, which today is Windows Mobile 6.1. Now, Windows Mobile 6.1 is a very important release for us on the operating system level. It does a number of things. Primarily it's designed to make the phone simpler and easier to use when you're using for voice, data, communications, and entertainment, because that's actually a lot of breadth to span, and we need to continually work to make sure use...
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Xbox 360 "Newton" Motion Sensing Controller Confirmed
2008-04-10 09:31:00
I can now confirm the existence of the Xbox Wiimote clone project and I can tell you the project code name : "Newton " The "Newton" controller's code name is after the physicist Sir Isaac Newton. The internal Microsoft engineering code name is for this controller is "Newton" as in Newtonian Physics relating to gravity, inertia and acceleration. This is not to be confused with the defunct Apple Newton PDA, this is just and internal name, when this controller comes to market it will have a retail name. The hardware is still being worked on and it might be a couple months before we see leaked shots of prototypes when they start to mass manufacture it but I am sure that there is an early software developer kit and prototype out there. Nintendo is not the first company to make something like the Wiimote. The concept for the Wiimote has been called a 3d Mouse or a "Flying Mouse". There is a company called Gyration that makes wireless controllers an...
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Microsoft rival to Wii Remote planned for 2008 release?
2008-04-08 00:02:00
The Nintendo Wii and its motion-sensitive Wii Remote controller have, undeniably, taken the videogame world by storm since their arrival in late 2006. Sony, meanwhile, has failed to ignite a similar level of excitement with its tilt-responsive SixAxis controller for the PlayStation 3, which leaves Microsoft the only player of ?the big 3? left to jump on the motion-control bandwagon. However, if a report discovered today is to be believed, Bill Gates? company has plans to release a Wii Remote rival for the Xbox 360 by the end of the year. While nothing has been officially announced as yet, a source has divulged to MTV News that Microsoft, in partnership with Rare, has been working on a controller that does everything the Wii Remote does - and more - since August last year. MTV?s source explained that the controller?s functionality is similar to the Wii Remote, although it will include four face buttons, an analogue stick and a microphone (rough sketch ? right). In addition, he/she e...
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Microsoft To Release Silverlight 2 In Late Summer
2008-04-07 14:58:00
Microsoft has been working like gangbusters to create the perception that its cross-platform multimedia runtime Silverlight is a viable alternative to Adobe's Flash, and the vendor will soon put updated tools in the hands of Silverlight developers. In a Thursday blog post, Microsoft developer Ashish Thapliyal said Microsoft is "targeting late Summer " for its release of Silverlight 2.0, which is currently in its first beta release. Silverlight 2.0 supports VC-1, WMV, MP3 and WMA content, but Microsoft has no plans to support the Flash video (.flv), used by Youtube and many other Websites, said Thapliyal. Microsoft's rationale here is to avoid paying licensing fees and to keep the Silverlight download file size as small as possible, he added. "Silverlight isn't designed with an extensible codec model in mind, so there is no date/version announced for this," wrote Thapliyal. A second Silverlight 2.0 beta is due in May, and this version will be very similar to...
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Silverlight Roadmap questions
2008-04-05 11:57:00
Silverlight is about 7 month old kid but it is already making such a big buzz. One of my colleague Rahul did excellent job in terms of putting up a FAQ regarding the roadmap 1. When exactly will Silverlight support all the codecs that a standard Windows Media Player support? How about supporting .flv since most of the video on internet currently is using this format? Silverlight isn?t designed with an extensible codec model in mind, so there is no date/version announced for this. Silverlight supports playing VC-1, WMV, MP3 and WMA content.  It doesn't support arbitrary codecs since those get complicated from a licensing perspective (Microsoft needs to pay the owners of those formats royalties), and they also dramatically increase the size of the download (which we want to keep small to enable really easy deployment). Currently the alternative to this is Expression Media Encoder. It will have support for taking different formats like flv and converting them into Silverlight support...
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Windows 7 Build 6519 Screenshot Gallery
2008-04-04 09:41:00
A few weeks back, the first external build of Windows 7, the next version of Windows, fell into my hands. I installed it initially in just a virtual machine and took hundreds of shots, and that's what you're looking at here. Essentially, Windows 7 build 6519--dating back to December 2007--is just a slightly enhanced version of Windows Vista. My guess--and at this point, it's just a guess--is that things will change more significantly over time. But even in this early build, a number of interesting developments emerge. I'll have more to say about that in the days ahead. For now, enjoy this first screenshot gallery. It won't be the last. Source: Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows Taimur Asad (The Microsoft "Wow" Blog!)
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