Start developing custom applications for your Windows Mobile 6.5 device

Microsoft has officially released Windows Mobile 6.5 in CES, now a new series of videos from MSDEV will help you develop your applications for Windows Mobile 6.5.

This series of Web seminars will lead you through common application development scenarios in Windows Mobile 6.5. From “hello world” to embedded databases, from sending a simple SMS messages to using the new touch-screen enabled Gesture APIs, these sessions will get you started developing custom applications for your Windows Mobile 6.5 device.

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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.

Project Natal Camera Sensor with Xbox 360 Console

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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.

Version Boxed Product Product Key Card
Office 2010 Home and Student $149 $119
Office 2010 Home and Business $279 $199
Office 2010 Professional $499 $349
Office 2010 Professional Academic $99* N/A

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How to link Online IDs with Windows User Account

If you have an online account, such as an e?mail account, you can link that account with your Windows user account. Linking these accounts provides the following benefits:

  • People can share files with you on a homegroup using your online ID instead of having to create a Windows user account for you on their computer.
  • You can use your online ID to access your information on other computers on a network, such as accessing files on a home computer from your work computer.

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Broadcast your PowerPoint Presentation over the web

The Microsoft PowerPoint Broadcast Service makes it easy for PowerPoint 2010 users to share a presentation on the fly with anyone, anywhere, over the web.

Just send a link, and in one click everyone you invite will be watching a synchronized view of your slide show in their browser, even if they don’t have PowerPoint 2010 installed.

To broadcast your slides to an audience, follow the directions below.

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All about Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool

ILITWebpage_Title_394x112Now 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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