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Windows Live Apps For Your Domain

Microsoft has quietly launched a free service called Windows Live Community Builder, that offers Windows Live services for domains. This is a similar service like Google Apps for your domain, under this service Microsoft offers Live mail, photo service, messenger, writer and other live services. ... Read More →

Translation widgets for your blog

Google and Microsoft released translation widgets to translate your blog or website into another language. According to wikipedia only 35.2% of the internet users are English, so it makes sense to add translation widgets for your blog to increase the reach for your blog. Microsoft Translator ... Read More →

More Storage Space from Windows Live Skydrive and Gmail

Microsoft Windows Live Skydrive has increased storage space to 1GB. Now users of skydrive can get updates when friends add files to folders through RSS feeds, this is an important feature and it will help to get updates quickly. The other important announcement is now users can share the drives ... Read More →

Windows Live Translator Beta From Microsoft

Windows Live Translator is a new beta service from Microsoft for automatic machine translation of text and web pages. The tool lets you translate text from English to German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian, and vice versa for some ... Read More →

5 Useful Windows XP Powertoys

Powertoys are small add-ons from Microsoft to tweak or enhance your windows XP experience. If you are a serious windows user then you should be using these and these can be downloaded from Microsoft for free. Here is a list of my favorite power toys to increase productivity. Image Resizer: You ... Read More →

Windows Live Folders and Windows Live Gallery

Microsoft announced today the availability of windows live folders beta and windows live gallery beta. Windows Live Folders: Windows live folders is a file storage service for users, currently 500Mb of space is available for storing files. Documents, Photos and Music can be uploaded to ... Read More →

Microsoft IPTV is now Microsoft Mediaroom

Microsoft announced today the availability of Microsoft Mediaroom, the IPTV platform. Microsoft IPTV is renamed as Mediaroom and added functionality. Microsoft Mediaroom features several new capabilities including in-home personal music and photo sharing, dynamic multiple picture in picture ... Read More →

Microsoft Surface Computing

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today unveil Microsoft Surface at All Things Digital conference, "the first in a new category of surface computing products from Microsoft that breaks down traditional barriers between people and technology. Surface computing technology can recognize physical objects ... Read More →

Split-Screen Technology to Double Computer Use

Folks at Microsoft Research Bangalore, India are developing a software that can split a computer screen in two halves, each half can act as an individual computer with its own operating system, desktop, cursor and keyboard. This will help small businesses in developing countries like India who ... Read More →