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-Mithun Dhar

We've all been waiting for this for a long time now! I've got ton's of email asking me about PDC 08! Ladies and Gentlemen, Wait no more - Register for this year's PDC! Take advantage of the Early Bird discount and save $200 on your registration.

                                    When: October 27 - 30th

                                    Where: LA

                                    Agenda: http://microsoftpdc.com/Agenda/ 

                                    Fella's it happening in LA - Don't be caught dead without your BLING!

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Dessert is finally here!

As we head to close the financial year at Microsoft, we are pleased to announce our best event yet – SharePoint Web 2.0 Fire Starter!

In typical FireStarter event style, we aim at delivering a first class experience to all attendees and make them experts on developing on SharePoint technologies before the end of the event. We have great speakers from the Microsoft rooster presenting some awesome topics that will help you build and customize websites with SharePoint and Web 2.0 technologies. You cannot miss this action packed day!

Here’s what the agenda looks like: 

 Where: Microsoft Conference Center (Building 33) – Kodiak Room

 When: June 11^th 2008 - Wednesday

Register NOW! <-- Click to Register

If you have any questions, please contact via comments on my blog or email: mithund@ms.com – be sure to expand MS.

Update:

We are now simulcasting this event on the web as well - If you are unable to attend in person Register HERE to watch the event live! Note you will need to register to get all appropriate updates.

- Register HERE to attend via Live Meeting!

Thanks,

-Mithun Dhar

WOW! This is really cool...I've not yet explored it completely but I think I'll be watching the universe from a whole different monitor later tonight! :) I miss being in Microsoft Research :(

Download and check it out...

-Mithun Dhar

PS:

While you are at it, check out the Search feature. It's c o o l...

Expression Studio launched today! Yay!

You can either Buy or Subscribe! Very cool!

-Mithun Dhar

At Microsoft we have the tradition of bringing in a lb of M&M's for every year we complete. This year, I brought 6 lb's of M&M's. This week, if you bee lined to Building # 36 which is the Microsoft Office Building you'd find 25 lbs of M&M's. Can you believe it's 25 years since Microsoft launched its first version of Word. I am so glad that Mr. Clippy is no longer alive. I think he was about 6 years when MS decided to put him to sleep with MS Office 2007...lol!

May 2, 1983 — Microsoft announces the latest addition to its Multi-Tool Family of productivity tools, Microsoft Word. Word provided many features previously available only on dedicated word processors costing up to $10,000, including undo, style sheets, and cut/paste between multiple document windows.

Also important was the ability to use the new Microsoft Mouse to "designate text (e.g., for underlining or deletion), scroll through text, select commands, select options within commands, and even execute the commands." Many early Word advertisements included prominent shots of the mouse, as in this week's featured image.

It's amazing to see how software's evolved. I'd love to see the next versions of word with Speech built in. It's already included but I think it can be much better. Arguably, it's one of my favorite programs.

-Mithun Dhar