Following on from the previous announcement about Get Windows 7 for £30 in the UK – Student Offer well the site is now live at http://www.ultimatesteal.co.uk and not only can you get Windows 7 Home Premium / Windows 7 Professional for £30 but also get Office Ultimate 2007 if you are a qualifying student for £38.95*.
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Themes In Outlook Web App (OWA) 2010…
Exchange 2007 came with four built-in themes and a flexibility to customize as well. Seattle Sky, Xbox 360, Zune and Carbon Black. Well, the settings are the same in Exchange 2010, but users can no longer change the theme. The option to change the theme within OWA is missing and Microsoft has confirmed that the feature is not available in this release.
In OWA 2007, you could change the theme to the one of your choice (if it is allowed by the admin in the first place), by navigating to Options –> General Settings –> Appearance Section.
Link – http://www.howexchangeworks.com/2009/09/themes-in-outlook-web-app-owa-2010.html
First Look at Word Web App’s Editing View
Following on from yesterday’s post on OneNote Web App, we’ve got the chance to take a look the Editing View of the Word Web App, currently disabled in the recently released Office Web Apps technical preview. Here’s a screenshot of it running in Windows Live SkyDrive:
Link – http://liveside.net/main/archive/2009/09/26/exclusive-first-look-at-word-web-app-s-editing-view.aspx
Web Deployment Tool (x86)
The Web Deployment Tool simplifies the migration, management and deployment of IIS Web servers, Web applications and Web sites. Administrators can use command-line scripting with the Web Deployment Tool to synchronize IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0 servers or to migrate an IIS 6.0 server to IIS 7.0. The Web Deployment Tool also enables administrators and delegated users to use IIS Manager to deploy ASP.NET and PHP applications to an IIS 7.0 server.
Migrate Web applications between IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0 with ease
Simplify the planning of your IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.0 migrations by determining incompatibilities and previewing the proposed changes before starting the process. Learning about any potential issues in advance gives you the chance to take corrective measures and simplifies migration.
Microsoft WebsiteSpark
Yesterday, Microsoft announced the availability of a new program for Web Professionals called Microsoft WebsiteSpark.
As the latest initiative in the ‘Spark’ family of programs, including BizSpark and DreamSpark, Microsoft is building upon a legacy of working with key communities and providing the additional support, tools and resources needed in order to help them thrive. The WebsiteSpark Program provides Web professionals with Microsoft software and solutions, together with related tools, training and support, to help their businesses succeed. The WebsiteSpark Program also helps drive new business opportunities by connecting Web professionals and hosters with an ecosystem of customers, partners and other professionals with complementary technologies.
Link – http://blogs.msdn.com/tejas/archive/2009/09/25/websitespark.aspx
Firefox gets an early taste of 3D Web standard
A nascent technology called WebGL for bringing hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the Web is getting a lot closer to reality.
Last week, programmers began building WebGL into Firefox’s nightly builds, the developer versions used to test the latest updates to the open-source browser. Also this month, programmers began building WebGL into WebKit, the project that’s used in both Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome.
Windows 7 UK Student Offer – Buy Windows 7 for only £30!
We are offering students the opportunity to buy Windows 7 for an amazing discounted price, £30 for either Windows 7 Home Premium or Windows 7 Professional.
You can take advantage of this offer from October 1st but you will need to be quick as it is for a limited time only and is only eligible to college and university students with a valid .EDU email address (an email address given by the college or university, for example: [email protected] ), a PC that is currently running a genuine copy of Windows Vista or Windows XP and can run Windows 7.
Link – http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windows/studentoffer/default.aspx
It’s official: no plans to sell Zune HD outside the US
Recent whispers across the blogosphere that Microsoft currently has no plans to launch the Zune HD in France prompted us to prod Redmond impatiently for more information. We got it, but we’re sad to say you probably won’t like it if you live north, south, east, or west of the US border. Not only are there no plans for France, but Microsoft is excluding every single country outside of the US, at least for now.
Update for Windows® Vista SP1 or above to enable RemoteApp
This package lets you to run many Windows Vista productivity applications from Windows 7-based PC using Windows Virtual PC. This package needs to be installed in your Windows Vista virtual machine.
For more information about Windows Virtual PC, please visit the Windows Virtual PC website.
The future of Windows phones and Windows Mobile
As a Windows Mobile user who’s doubted the future of the platform at least once, it’s been very reassuring to hear that not only do the at least one person at Windows Mobile genuinely acknowledge and understand some of the shortcomings of the Windows Mobile experience and platform today but in response to this they are committed to updating the platform more frequently than it has been.
Link – http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090910/the-future-of-windows-phones-and-windows-mobile/
Microsoft Unveils Company’s Thinnest Keyboard, Designed Exclusively for Bluetooth Computers
Thin is in; Microsoft Corp. today announced its thinnest keyboard ever — the Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000 — made exclusively for Bluetooth notebook and desktop computers. Projections show that over 55 percent of notebook PCs will ship with Bluetooth by the end of 2010.1 With mobile PCs getting more compact, the Microsoft Hardware team created the Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000 to address consumers’ need for comfortable and portable computing accessories.
Link – http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/Sep09/09-09BMK6000PR.mspx
Office 2010 Icons
The next Office suite will feature a new set of program icons. They are still easily recognisable so users, shouldn’t have any problems working out what’s what.
The most obvious change is the large Letter on each icon, which is the first letter from each program, e.g Outlook will become O.
Check out the full set of icons.
See the download page, to download the icon package – Downloads
Remote Desktop Connection 7 for Windows 7, Windows XP & Windows Vista
Now that we have released Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 to manufacturing, we wanted to share our plans to make the Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) 7.0 client available to Windows XP and Windows Vista. RDC 7 will ensure that when connecting to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 from an XP or Vista machines you are able to take advantage of the rich, advanced RDP7 features such as Media Player Redirection, True Multi-monitor support, etc
Windows Live Movie Maker – get it now
Microsoft has taken the wraps of Windows Live Movie Maker, “the the one-minute way to turn photos and videos into great-looking movies that are easy to share — for free”. You can download Windows Live Essentials now and get the new Movie Maker (and what appears to be some bug fixes for the other WL applications, no real signs of Wave 4 yet).
What is Microsoft® BizSpark
Microsoft BizSpark is a global program designed to accelerate the success of early stage Startups.
BizSpark provides software, support and visibility to Startups:
Software: BizSpark provides entrepreneurs fast and easy access to current full-featured Microsoft development tools and productions licenses of server products, with no upfront costs and minimal requirements.
•All the software included is equivalent to a Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System Team Suite (VSTS) with MSDN® Premium subscription. Additionally, VSTS Team Foundation Server (Standard Edition) is available for use by the entire development team.
•Expression® Studio Version 2
•Production use rights to host a “software-plus-services” solution (developed during participation in the BizSpark Program, on any platform) over the Internet, with regard to the latest versions of Microsoft products including:
