Learn at home with Microsoft Interactive Classroom

Microsoft Interactive Classroom helps interaction and collaboration between educators and students by enabling the creation of classroom polls using PowerPoint, and sharing content with students using OneNote. Educators can insert a multiple choice, yes/no, or true/false polling questions to lessons using PowerPoint.

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Presentations on popular Microsoft Technologies | Silverlight Learning Snacks

Long time back i had posted about the availability of Learning snacks on Windows 7, now Microsoft is introducing the new latest range of Silverlight Learning Snacks on various Microsoft technologies. Microsoft Silverlight Learning Snacks are short, interactive presentations about popular topics created by Microsoft Learning experts.

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Another Visual Studio member for Cloud Computing – LightSwitch

Visual Studio LightSwitch, a new addition to the Visual Studio family, helps you to create business class application for Cloud as well as Desktop. With LightSwitch you can create custom applications for the way you do business.

LightSwitch provides a variety of pre-built templates and tools to build business applications that target Windows Client or Windows Azure using as much or as little code as you want to write.

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The Unit testing development tool for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0

Every software development has its stepwise procedure of Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing, and its maintenance. And testing may be kind of many types like Black-box, White-box, Alpha, Beta, Unit, Milestone etc. Many of the development through Visual Studio 2010 needs to be tested before the actual product launch or distribution. Programmer has to make sure to have a command over their code what they have written through Unit Testing.

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Bill gates and Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Amethi On Tuesday

The worlds’ one of the richest man Bill Gates and India’s powerful young politician Rahul Gandhi visited the small village Amethi which is situated in Uttar Pradesh (india) on This tuesday (11th may 2010).

The visit was maintained as a top secret till late Monday evening, to keep the media and others away. Even the main state leaders of Congress were unaware of this visit.

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Getting to know all about Windows Registry

I was going through the Book “Windows 7 UNLEASHED , SAMS publication” that sneaked my attraction on very interesting chapter which was all about the registry. So i thought it would be better to rip out some content for our blog readers.

The Registry is a central repository Windows uses to store anything and everything that applies to the configuration of your system.

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How E-mail System works | Concept of SMTP and POP3 server

For the vast majority of people right now, the real e-mail system consist of two different servers running on the main e-mail server machine. One is called the SMTP Server (Simple mail transfer protocol) which handles outgoing mail and the other is POP3 Server (Post Office Protocol) which takes the responsibility of incoming mail. The SMTP server listens on well-known port number 25, while POP3 listens on port 110.

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Windows XP Mode without hardware virtualization technology

Today, During the Desktop Visualization Hour Webcast , Microsoft has talked about the investments around desktop virtualization technologies and solutions, including virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), to help organizations of all sizes increase flexibility, employee productivity and IT cost savings.

Within this session Microsoft outlined improvements that make it easier to access desktop virtualization. Like New technology agreement with Citrix Systems, features coming in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and about Windows XP mode.

Microsoft had included Windows XP mode in Windows 7 to access the backward compatible application in Windows 7 with the help of hardware visualization technology which force people to upgrade a new infrastructure to run the XP mode and leads to high drop on financial budget.

But now by having a eyes on IT cost savings, Microsoft has decided to give the support for Windows XP Mode that will no longer requires hardware virtualization technology.

This update is not available now but for more information which will go live later at Windows XP mode Homepage.