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Microsoft has announced a new camera for aerial photography. It is a 92 megapixel camera that they used for Bird’s Eye view on Live Maps. Did you know that Microsoft makes camera?

Microsoft has released the final version of Internet Explorer 8 at MIX09. IE8 has many new features with it, like InPrivate Browsing, Web Slice, Compatibility View etc.
The feature I like the most is Web Slice

What is a Web Slice.
Web Slice is a new feature in IE8 which allows users to subscribe to a portion of a webpage. Web Slice behave just like RSS feeds for a portion of a webpage.  Web slice are based on hAtom Microformat and hSlice Microformat. Any developer can create a web slice in a existing webpage just by annotating HTML with class names for title, entry content and other properties.

How to create a Web Slice.
Here is a simple working example.
Note: Web Slice works only when page is served by a server.

WEB SLICE Example


 WebSlice Title


 this is the content that will appear in the preview window





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Microsoft launched its WorldWide Telescope, bringing the free Web-based program for zooming around the universe to a broad audience. The image above shows how the Earth looks like at night,  taken from this utility. visit here

Microsoft Corp. has stepped up its pursuit of a deal to buy Yahoo Inc.,
two newspapers reported on Friday, as the two companies reenter talks
to strike a deal amid huge growth from rival Google Inc.

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I guess its going to be a big leap.

With the launch of office 2007 Microsoft has introduced a new format for office
files. Microsoft office 2007 system use XML based file format. In office 2007
doc file is docx file and ppt and xls files are pptx and xlsx files
respectively. These files are based on Office Open XML format. New file formats
are zipped packages where settings, style, format and content is in xml format
inside. The most important feature of this format is interoperability. Now any application
that supports XML can work with the data in new file format. The development of
office documents like power point presentation would be easier on the server
side without any office component or software installation. You even don’t need
to install office 2007 on a web server to create these documents.

Well, the thing is that We need to create a solution for our
client where we need to generate the PPTs and XlSs files on the fly. We have
decided to use this new file format for this task. As this is new thing around,
so there is not much help available on the net. So I am much like eating the Microsoft’s document on the subject.

http://www.microsoft.com/india/events/devvista/

Here is a counter to those people who look down at Indian IT industry and think it is producing software of low quality. I have read people discussing in forums about the low cost in Indian software market. They end up with the conclusion that India produces Inferior software with low cost. That is groundless opinion, I’d say.

On the contrary, Indian companies have won the faith of clients all over the world. Most of the big banking projects are handled by domestic Indian companies. Lets not go too far, Consider Microsoft’s Vista operating system which is launched in the market recently. Almost 40 patents have been filed my Microsoft India, Hyderabad where about 330 software engineers developed important features of operating system. And this is not first time.

Much awaited Microsoft’s new Windows Vista has been launched.
It is a major release of an operating system after Windows XP in 2001 by
Microsoft.

This edition of Windows contains new improved features.
Security is better than previous versions. It has IE7 already installed, which
is more secure from Internet threats.

Windows Vista is based on a totally new 3D look and feel, Windows Aero

Other new features in Vista
include easier searches, gadget sidebars, and increased security. Windows vista
will be available in six versions. Checkout some cool features here

more later, soon I am gonna have it for my PC.

Zune has been launched in US Market. This gadget seems very
tempting to me. That’s obvious for a music freak like me.

For those folk who don’t know
what is it, it is a Microsoft’s new product, A Digital media player. Remember the Apple’s IPods.
It is one of those kinds of stuffs. It got lot of features. I am waiting for
its launch in India.
Check out this nice thingy here.