Sky Player in Windows 7 Media Center now available
Sky Player, Sky's online TV service, is now available to Windows Media Center UK users in Windows 7. Sky kicked off the service on the Xbox 360 late last month. The service will allow users access to Live TV, on demand content, movies and sport. Existing Sky TV customers will... Read on »
Microsoft live labs introduces Pivot visual search
Microsoft's Live Labs division demonstrated a new technology called Pivot today at PDC 2009. Microsoft Technical Fellow Gary Flake revealed Pivot as a standalone application based on Microsoft's established Seadragon and Deep Zoom technologies. The application highlights a new way of searching using a series of linked data. In the... Read on »
Windows Mobile 7 UI confirmed by Microsoft?
Microsoft confirmed today that the company will unveil its plans for Windows Mobile 7 at the MIX 2010 conference in March next year. Microsoft Office Vice President Kurt Delbene confirmed the news at the end of day two at the Professional Developers Conference here in Los Angeles. Little is known... Read on »
Microsoft goes social with Outlook 2010
As part of Microsoft's Office 2010 announcements today the company has taken the wraps off a number of social networking add-ins that... Read on »
Microsoft Office 2010 public beta available
Microsoft has made the Office 2010 beta available publicly today. Earlier this week Microsoft released the beta to MSDN and TechNet customers.... Read on »
Microsoft Office 2010 top new features
Microsoft introduced a public beta of Office 2010 today. Neowin has taken a look at Office 2010 and we have pulled out our favourite new features. Check them out below. Embed, edit and manage videos within PowerPoint 2010 PowerPoint 2010 now allows you to easily insert local videos and web... Read on »
Microsoft demos Internet Explorer 9
Microsoft today demonstrated an early, three week old, build of Internet Explorer 9 at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2009. IE 9 will take advantage of the power of the GPU for all page rendering and developers can exploit this using CSS, DHTML and javascript. In just three weeks Microsoft believes... Read on »
Neowin hands on: Seesmic for Windows
Neowin met with Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur today at Microsoft's Professional Developers conference. Loic gave us a great walk through of the recently announced Seesmic for Windows WPF application that is launching later today. Seesmic is a social networking application primarily used to access Twitter and Facebook. The application... Read on »
Microsoft set to announce Internet Explorer 9 plans
Today at a packed out keynote for Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) Microsoft's Ray Ozie hinted at the next generation of Internet Explorer. According to sources close to Neowin, Microsoft VP Steven Sinofsky is set to unveil the software giants plans for Internet Explorer 9 tomorrow. Neowin understands that the... Read on »
Microsoft Office 2010 beta available on MSDN/TechNet
Microsoft has made the latest beta of Office 2010 available to MSDN and TechNet customers. The release follows news that Office 2010 beta builds have begun leaking from the software giant. It's widely expected that a public beta build of Office 2010 will be available this week. Microsoft has kept... Read on »
Microsoft: Sorry we used GPLv2 code illegally
Microsoft tonight issued an update on the reports that the company used open source code in their Windows 7 USB/DVD tool, illegally. Neowin originally reported earlier this week that Microsoft had pulled the tool after complaints by Rafael Rivera over some of the content of the Windows 7 USB/DVD download... Read on »
Microsoft Office 2010 beta build leaks
Microsoft's highly anticipated Office 2010 beta suite has leaked this week on peer-to-peer file sharing networks. The build, numbered version 14.0.4514.1009, is tagged with the "beta 2" naming. The leak reportedly requires keys to install but accepts Office 2010 Technical Preview keys. Michael Aulia of Craving Tech posted some screen... Read on »
Microsoft investigating zero-day Windows 7 hole
Microsoft confirmed to Cnet News that it is looking into a report of a vulnerability in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 that could be used by a malicious attacker to remotely crash PCs. The software giant is looking into claims of a "possible denial-of-service vulnerability in Windows Server Message... Read on »
Microsoft updates Windows Marketplace for Mobile
Microsoft announced today that it has made some important changes to its Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Marketplace for Mobile is Microsoft's Windows Mobile equivalent of the popular Apple iPhone App Store. Marketplace was introduced alongside the new Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system on October 6, 2009. Currently the Marketplace does... Read on »
Microsoft Office Starter 2010 beta invites sent out
Microsoft has begun sending invites to the Office Starter 2010 beta program today according to the I Think Different blog. The invites are the latest clear indication that Microsoft plans to release an Office 2010 public beta shortly. Last week Microsoft sent out an email update to Click-To-Run Technical Preview... Read on »
Neowin Live Blog: Microsoft PDC 2009, November 17-19
Neowin will be covering Microsoft's 2009 Professional Developers Conference (PDC) live from Los Angeles next week. We've teamed up with a number of well known Microsoft bloggers to blog the Day 1 and Day 2 keynotes. The live blogging will include Ed Bott, Kip Kniskern, Long Zheng, Mary Jo Foley,... Read on »
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