Microsoft Rolls out Hotmail Enhancements

Microsoft is set to begin rolling out the latest enhancements to its Hotmail Web mail service, with an aim to reduce clutter and make it easier to send photos and handle Office documents

Microsoft is taking a clear shot at Google’s success with its online Docs service by making a Web-based version of Office available from within Hotmail’s Web interface that allows use of widely used document formats such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.

Link – http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/196490/microsoft_rolls_out_hotmail_enhancements.html

Re-inventing Windows Live Hotmail – the next generation of personal email

If you’ve been following this blog, you know that we’ve spent a lot of time talking about how consumers are using their email and how they manage their inboxes. We’ve also talked about how we decide what to build based on what we hear from customers.

Today, we’re excited to give you a preview of the new Windows Live Hotmail, representing the next generation in personal email.

Link – http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2010/05/18/re-inventing-windows-live-hotmail-the-next-generation-of-personal-email.aspx

Re-inventing Windows Live Hotmail – the next generation of personal email

If you’ve been following this blog, you know that we’ve spent a lot of time talking about how consumers are using their email and how they manage their inboxes. We’ve also talked about how we decide what to build based on what we hear from customers.

Today, we’re excited to give you a preview of the new Windows Live Hotmail, representing the next generation in personal email.

Link – http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2010/05/18/re-inventing-windows-live-hotmail-the-next-generation-of-personal-email.aspx

Microsoft Business Ready Security Trial Environment

The Microsoft Business Ready Security trial environment provides an end to end trial experience across all of the Business Ready Security solutions:

Secure Messaging – Enable more secure business communication from virtually any location or device, while preventing unauthorized use of confidential information

Secure Collaboration – Secure business collaboration from virtually anywhere and on any device, while preventing unauthorized use of confidential information

Secure Endpoint – Protect client and server operating systems from emerging threats and information loss, while enabling secure access from virtually anywhere and on any device

Information Protection – Discover, protect, and control information contained in data in motion, data at rest, and data in use for organizations

Identity and Access Management – Simplify identity and access management for secure, compliant access to applications on-premises and in the cloud from any location or device

Link – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=726f943e-d107-4b4d-a86e-dfb605e30ce5

Your Office Live Workspace is soon upgrading to Windows Live SkyDrive

Your Office Live Workspace account will soon be upgraded to become a Windows Live SkyDrive account.

In an effort to improve and simplify the customer experience for our Live services, we’ve made the decision to integrate Office Live Workspace with Windows Live SkyDrive into one set of services.

Link – http://ask.officelive.com/workspace/blogs/workspace_team/archive/2010/05/12/your-office-live-workspace-is-soon-upgrading-to-windows-live-skydrive.aspx

Free Office Mobile 2010 for Windows Phones

Today not only marks the availability of Office 2010 for organizations, but also the immediate availability of Office Mobile 2010 for all Windows Mobile 6.5 based phones with an earlier version of Office Mobile FOR FREE! via Windows Phone Marketplace. Office Mobile 2010 for Windows Mobile 6.5 includes new mobile versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and SharePoint Workspace. These new mobile versions offer a more touch-friendly layout and greater ability to work with documents on the phone – like editing PowerPoint presentations.

Link – http://windowsteamblog.com/Windows_Phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2010/05/12/free-office-mobile-2010-for-windows-phones.aspx

SharePoint Server 2010, Standard Trial

This is the trial for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

For small and mid-sized organizations looking to create public Internet sites or basic extranets using the Standard features of SharePoint Server 2010. ​

Link – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=895a1dba-0c3f-47a0-8d6d-163b50364335

Money Plus Sunset Deluxe

Money Plus Sunset Deluxe is designed to be a replacement for expired versions of Money Plus Essentials, Money Plus Deluxe, and Money Plus Premium versions. Note: The Money Plus Sunset versions come with online self-help only. See Overview section for more info.

Link – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=60302e1e-207e-4710-ac80-d19c22e47488

Office 2010 Administrative Template files (ADM, ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization Tool

This download includes Group Policy Administrative Template (ADM, ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization Tool (OPAX/OPAL) files for Microsoft Office 2010.

Download – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=64b837b6-0aa0-4c07-bc34-bec3990a7956

2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (RTM)

This download contains a two Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Virtual Machine set for evaluating and demonstrating Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 and Project Server 2010.

Link – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=751fa0d1-356c-4002-9c60-d539896c66ce

Microsoft to end support for 4,000 newsgroups

Microsoft said it plans to end support for more than 4,000 old-style newsgroups, starting next month, pushing users instead to discussion forums such as those found on the Microsoft Answers, TechNet and MSDN sites.

Although venerable, Microsoft said that so-called Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) newsgroups are past their time in terms of being usable and secure.

Link – http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-management/2010/05/05/microsoft-to-end-support-for-4000-newsgroups-40088845/

phpBB: Available for the Microsoft Web Platform

Today Microsoft is announcing that the Windows Web Application Gallery and Web Platform Installer (Web PI) now supports the download of the new phpBB release, which supports Windows, IIS and SQL Server.

Version 3.0.7-PL1 of phpBB takes advantage of a number of features for PHP applications on the Microsoft Web Platform with Windows, IIS and SQL Server including:

  • SQL Server Driver for PHP 1.1, provides key interoperability for PHP applications to use SQL Server for data storage. Released under the OSI approved MS-PL license and available on CodePlex.
  • WinCache Extension for PHP 1.0.1, provides increased performance for PHP applications on Windows and IIS. Released under the BSD license, is available from the PHP Extension Community Library (PECL) website.

Link – http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/phpBB.aspx

Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 RTW

Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 helps IT enable users to collaborate across organizational boundaries and easily access applications on-premises and in the cloud, while maintaining application security. Through a claims-based infrastructure, IT can enable a single sign-on experience for end-users to applications without requiring a separate account or password, whether applications are located in partner organizations or hosted in the cloud.

Link – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=118c3588-9070-426a-b655-6cec0a92c10b

Producer for PowerPoint

Microsoft Producer for PowerPoint provides users with many powerful new features that make it easier to synchronize audio, video, slides, and images to create engaging and effective rich-media presentations. Producer gives content and media professionals, as well as everyday PowerPoint users a host of new content authoring features.

Download – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1b3c76d5-fc75-4f99-94bc-784919468e73

Office team releases new Outlook Hotmail Connector

If you have been using Outlook Connector 12.1, you already know that it allows you to manage your Windows Live Hotmail e-mail, calendar, and contacts from within Outlook. Outlook Hotmail Connector 14.0 introduces several improvements. For example, you might notice after upgrading that the connection to Hotmail is more reliable than before, and issues such as blank messages being synchronized to Outlook have been fixed.

Link – http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowslive/archive/2010/05/04/office-team-releases-new-outlook-hotmail-connector.aspx

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