I am Microsoftie 4 ever (18+ years) working in Windows Services and Content team in the UK, my blog is mainly focused on the Windows family of products and trying to provide help pointers and resources for customers on our products.
Did you know about Microsoft Easy Assist?
“You can use Microsoft Easy Assist to allow a Microsoft support professional to remotely connect to your computer and help you solve a problem. Using a secure connection, the support professional can view your desktop and perform diagnostics and troubleshooting steps. Before using Easy Assist, you'll need to speak to a support professional and obtain a session ID. For contact information, go to the Microsoft Support website. Once you have a session ID, go to the Easy Assist webpage”
“You can use Microsoft Easy Assist to allow a Microsoft support professional to remotely connect to your computer and help you solve a problem. Using a secure connection, the support professional can view your desktop and perform diagnostics and troubleshooting steps.
Before using Easy Assist, you'll need to speak to a support professional and obtain a session ID. For contact information, go to the Microsoft Support website. Once you have a session ID, go to the Easy Assist webpage”
What is Microsoft Easy Assist?
Rob
If you like your Windows 7 in Malay (Brunei Darussalam), then you can download the latest Language Interface Pack (LIP) today.
Click here to download the Malay (Brunei Darussalam) Windows 7 LIP via the Microsoft.com Download Center in either 32bit or 64 bit versions.
Please note that the Malay (Brunei Darussalam) Windows 7 LIP can only be installed on a system that runs an English client version of Windows 7.
If you are after the Windows Vista LIP of Malay (Brunei Darussalam), you can find more info here.
Including bridges, gardens and highways
more info at http://closeup.jp.msn.com/visualstudio2010/
I briefly mentioned Engkoo a while back and just now spotted some additional info about it on Microsoft PressPass including a nice Silverlight demo to watch.
“Teach someone a word and help them once. But teach a search engine linguistics, and it can help people learn an entire language” “According to statistics, about 15 new words and uses for words appear in the English language every day,” says Ming Zhou, senior researcher and research manager of the Natural Language Processing Group at Microsoft Research in Beijing. “Any manual effort will have a hard time keeping up. And translation quality has always been a big issue, so you can imagine the enormous translation potential of using a variety of data from the Web.” (my bolding)
“Teach someone a word and help them once. But teach a search engine linguistics, and it can help people learn an entire language”
“According to statistics, about 15 new words and uses for words appear in the English language every day,” says Ming Zhou, senior researcher and research manager of the Natural Language Processing Group at Microsoft Research in Beijing. “Any manual effort will have a hard time keeping up. And translation quality has always been a big issue, so you can imagine the enormous translation potential of using a variety of data from the Web.”
(my bolding)
Microsoft Engkoo Helps Teach English to Chinese Internet Users: Engkoo, a new language assistance search technology released by Bing in China, helps Chinese speakers learn not just English words but the language itself, complete with slang and idioms.
6 great new Windows 7 Themes available from the Personalization Gallery
Just a quick update on the latest images available via the bing Dynamic themepack as mentioned last week featuring 4 new images from Cannon Beach in Oregon, Kyrgyzstan, Stonehenge in the UK and some seaweed…
don’t forget all that other lovely bing goodies (bings best 1, 2, 3, bing Japan and the bing screensaver)
Previously we have had a great page for downloading the latest language Interface packs for Windows 7 and Windows Vista, well we now have one for 53 available languages for Windows XP as well for all those users still running it.
“You can download and install additional languages to view Windows XP menus, dialog boxes, and other user interface items in your preferred language. Additional languages will work only with a genuine copy of Windows. Language Interface Packs (LIPs), which provide a translated version of the most widely used dialog boxes, menu items, and help content, can be installed over any edition of Windows XP. You can download Language Interface Packs from the Microsoft Download Center by using the links below. To install one, you will need to have the required parent language installed on your PC. “
“You can download and install additional languages to view Windows XP menus, dialog boxes, and other user interface items in your preferred language. Additional languages will work only with a genuine copy of Windows.
Language Interface Packs (LIPs), which provide a translated version of the most widely used dialog boxes, menu items, and help content, can be installed over any edition of Windows XP. You can download Language Interface Packs from the Microsoft Download Center by using the links below. To install one, you will need to have the required parent language installed on your PC. “
Download languages for Windows XP
Just wanted to highlight these accessibility training Step-by-Step Tutorials for Office Applications and Windows
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Download details: Step-by-Step Tutorials for Office Applications and Windows OS
try the following links for the accessibility features in:
Being here at Microsoft for the Windows 95 launch back in 1995 was an amazing time, and it is strange to look back on those heady days of Chicago etc… great to hear anyone's experiences or reminiscent thoughts on Windows 95 so post a comment.
Do you remember this “Start Me Up”…
@winlivematt over on UK MSN has a great article looking back on Microsoft Windows through the ages
We have a whole bunch of new and updated content for getting the most out of Windows Media Player versions 11 and 12 available at
Using Windows Media Player - Help & How-to - Microsoft Windows
Articles include:
Download Windows Media Player and listen to Internet radio via the Windows Media Guide