Most of the people over the net uses Antivirus or antimalware programs to protect their system against unwanted malicious threads. Microsoft recommends all windows 7 users to have an protection against these threads. They have provided list of all Antivirus tools which is compatible with Windows 7 systems.

Most of the times a normal internet user faces this stage while he receives a mail with the title “the Best Virus Protection for your system” or “Download free antivirus 2011″, and the user without knowing the source, downloads the file which tends to system crash or hack. Always go for verified Antivirus provider to get a best virus protection. You should carefully investigate the source of antivirus and other products before downloading and installing them.

Some of the best security programs (selected by Microsoft ) can be found here.

For windows 7 users, there is inbuilt program called “Windows defender” used to filter the malicious codes from incoming and outgoing ports of the system. Indeed, Microsoft has developed an security product called “Microsoft Security Essential” which provides the best virus protection and gives you wing to surf & download from the internet.

In the current market, top 3 Security system providers are “BitDefender”, ” Kaspersky” and “WebRoot”. apart from these my suggestion is to go for “ESET Smart Security” and the Microsoft Security Essential, if you want better performance with ease of speed.

Caution : Before installing any system security product, first check for installed anti-virus program. This may cause an system crash or hang if you are using more then one Anti-virus program at a time.

On the Move, checkout your important mail, Connect, Share anything through your windows phone or any other mobile device with Windows Live Hotmail Mobile. You can Login quickly and easily into your Hotmail account and you can Read, compose, and send e-mail on your phone as you do on your PC.

Get the Hotmail mobile features you know, optimized for your phone. With your smartphone, you’ll see more messages with less scrolling than before. Plus you can preview messages so you know what you need to reply to now and what can wait. Hotmail Mobile comes under the full package of Windows Live which contains Messenger, Bing, MSN Mobile, Spaces, MSN peoples, Microsoft My Phone, Photos.

Hotmail Mobile also contains an auto complete feature which will complete your word while typing a couple of letter and specially designed to fit in Phone’s screen. You can click the pic from mobile camera and directly upload to the Live Gallery and you can also share or email it to your friends circle through Live People Connect. Recently Microsoft has released Windows live for the Apple iPhone which can be downloaded through iTunes app store (available free).

Get Hotmail Mobile for your Phone

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.

Students who have laptops running Microsoft Windows and OneNote receive the polling questions and teacher annotations in real-time within their OneNote Notebook. In addition, students can add their own notes to the slides using the features provided in OneNote.

They can also respond in real-time to the questions during the lesson. Students without laptops can participate in polls using hardware clickers. This gives educators real time feedback on how well their students are grasping their lessons.?

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There are plenty of applications that work but are not supported, as well as plenty of applications which are supported but don’t work because they have a bug in them. Now we can conclude, which application will support Internet Explorer 8 or not.

The Internet Explorer 8 Application Compatibility List for IT Professionals is a Microsoft Office Excel-based spreadsheet listing software applications which are compatible or not compatible with Internet Explorer 8, based on public support statements from software publishers, or statements made to Microsoft from software publishers.

Download Application Compatibility List for IT Professionals

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.

Each Snack is delivered by using innovative Microsoft Silverlight technology and includes various media, such as animations and recorded demos. At the end of each free presentation, you can view more Snacks, learn more about the topics.

Learning snacks are available under following technologies.

• Core Infrastructure Optimization
• Learning Central
• Management Reporter 2.0
• Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
• Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0
• Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010
• Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step 2010
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
• Microsoft Office 2010
• Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
• Virtualization
• Web 2.0 Development
• WebsiteSpark
• Windows 7
• Windows Essential Business Server 2008
• Windows Server 2008 Release 2 (R2)
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Vista

Links:

• Browse through all the learning snacks
• What is silverlight snack player

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.

You can build forms from existing templates and populate them with data from data sources including SQL Server, SQL Azure, SharePoint, and others. There is integrated support for working with Microsoft Office for tasks such as exporting data to Excel without having to write code.

Microsoft says that LightSwitch dramatically decreases the time it takes to build a custom application by automatically handling routine code; it’s a rapid application development tool that offers application shells and screen templates to allow the developer to concentrate on the core business logic.

Links :

• LightSwitch Homepage
• LightSwitch Demo (MSDN blog)

Got my vuvuzela up and yes, its celebration time. Many of the users around the globe had played the word cup contest, organized by Infolinks, over their Facebook Fan page. And BingoO, I entered in final contest by predicting  the final goal fixture between the Netherlands vs. Spain final Fifa worldcup 2010, and won the cool Ninetndo Wii and the official FIFA World Cup 2010 game.

I would specially like to thanks to Infolinks team for organizing such a great contest and for the winning prize. Better luck next time all the participants and stay tuned to Infolinks’s Facebook Fan page for the future contests.

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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.

The Typemock Isolator 2010 is unit testing tool, for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0, which takes control over hectic methods and Code snippet. It occupies less testing code and simplifies unit testing by simpler and cleaner code. It provides support for variety of .NET Framework Technology including including WCF, WPF, SharePoint, Asp.Net and Silverlight.

This add in for VS 2010 auto-completes  and generates the cods and gives the developer to isolate or mock any method of class in a programe , such as Public, Private and Protected methods or Abstract or static class. It verifies the call arguments by delivering different fake objects and control behavior.

The Typemock Isolator Unit testing tool is simple to implement, easy to handle and contains simple API. It also supports the older .NET technologies rather then .NET 4.0.

As many of the internet user knows that Windows 7 Service pack 1 has been leaked to Torrent sites. The leaked Windows 7 SP1 release has the build number 7601.16562.100603-1800 and it was originally distributed to select beta testers, and will expire in-between April – July 2011.

Users, who don’t like to download the leaked Service Pack 1 beta (7601.16562.100603-1800) from torrents and other file sharing sites, can now  officially download Service Pack 1 directly from “Softpedia”.

Links :

• Notable changes in Service pack 1
• Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 KB list
• Download Windows 7 Service pack 1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta build 6.1.7601.16562 (Softpedia)

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Microsoft Corp.co-founder Bill Gates said he supports chief executive officer Steve Ballmer, as rival Apple Inc. overtook Microsoft last month to become the technology company with the highest market capitalization.

“I happen to like the things that Steve’s doing,” Gates said when asked if he had confidence in Ballmer, according to the transcript of an interview for broadcast later on Sunday on ABC’s This Week programme. “It’s not my full-time work, but as a board member, you know, I see a lot of great things going on.”

Apple became the most valuable technology firm in the world on 26 May. Cupertino, California-based Apple’s market capitalization was $230.70 billion (Rs10.8 trillion) as of 11 June; Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft’s was $224.90 billion.

Asked why Apple overtook Microsoft, Gates said: “Oh, Microsoft is doing a lot of great stuff,” and that the opportunities in the software industry are pretty phenomenal.

“The way that people think about TV, the way they think about reading, about learning, software is going to revolutionize that,” said Gates.

Asked about the economy Gates said the President can’t just pull the levers and make the economy take off. He said reducing the US budget deficit will be difficult. “It’s a tricky thing, because almost everybody agrees we need to keep spending up, you know, not take all country deficits to zero right away. But over time, you have to move in that direction,” he said.

Gates also repeated his call for the US government to increase spending on clean-energy research and development. “Without such research, the problem we’ll run into is that we’ll have more crises like the oil spill and we’ll have the supply disruption. We’ll start to see more and more effects of the climate problem. The costs will go up because you’re looking for oil in harder and harder places,“ Gates said

Courtesy Livemint(Joshua Zumbrun) June14