Welcome Windows Mobile 7 | The Next Generation Mobile phone series

Finally we have got the li’l bit hope of windows mobile 7 release, today at Mobile World Congress 2010, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the next generation of Windows Phones, Windows Phone 7 Series.

“Today, I’m proud to introduce Windows Phone 7 Series, the next generation of Windows Phones,” said Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer at Microsoft. “In a crowded market filled with phones that look the same and do the same things, I challenged the team to deliver a different kind of mobile experience. Windows Phone 7 Series marks a turning point toward phones that truly reflect the speed of people’s lives and their need to connect to other people and all kinds of seamless experiences.”

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Project Natal on the Air

Microsoft has announced to the visitors of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Project Natal will go on sale in November 2010 it will work on all existing Xbox 360 consoles.

Project Natal was first announced at the E3 video games conference in June last year. It is the system allows users to play games controlled by body movements and speech rather than a handheld device.

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Office 2010 Pricing details revealed

Office 2010 Engineering blog has released Office 2010 U.S. retail pricing today. According to them, Office 2010 will be available in four different flavors that best suits for you – Office Home and Business, Office Professional, Office Home and Student, and Office Professional Academic. Here’s a chart that outlines the features and pricing for each version.

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All about Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool

Now a days we feel that for many languages like Hindi, entering text on PC is difficult. And there are many products and tools in market out there today through which we can enter text in hindi by any translation widget. But most products have some barrier – e.g. some require users to know a fixed transliteration scheme; some others allow free form transliteration, but work only on webpages etc.

But Microsoft peoples has made their efforts to create a tool that can bring translations to the desktop such that it can be used to enter text in any application on the PC, and that is a key focus of the Indic Language Input Tool.

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Microsofts’ vision to Health care | Health tech Today

Health Tech Today with Dr. Bill Crounse is a monthly online series providing cutting-edge stories at the intersection of health and information technology. It highlights the latest industry trends and features examples of proven solutions that are improving health and changing lives for clinicians, patients and consumers worldwide.

The series of videos features informative interviews with some of the world’s top health leaders; compelling health-related personal stories; and the latest new technology and IT innovations.

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Welcome WebsiteSpark | A new developer resources platform

WebsiteSpark is launching officially in Ireland on Tuesday, October 20th at the Guinness Storehouse.  WebsiteSpark provides web designers, developers, students, freelancers and anyone else who is interested software licenses, support and business resources to help them grow and succeed.

WebsiteSpark will provide you the following software licenses for three years.  After enrolling here, you can download & immediately use the software.

• 3 licenses of Visual Studio 2008 Professional
• 1 license of Expression Studio 3 (including Blend, Sketchflow, Web & Encoder)
• 2 licenses of Expression Web 3
• 4 processor licenses of Windows Server 2008 R2 (can be used for development and/or production)
• 4 processor licenses for SQL Server 2008 Web Edition (can be used for development and/or production)

Along with the licenses, WebsiteSpark provides a business network to help grow your business, product support and free, online training.

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