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Friday, February 27, 2009 10:20 AM

Engineering Enhancements to Windows7 based on feedback

The Win 7 team has been hard at work taking user feedback and incorporating them into Win7. Some of the most notable are like being able to press <WindowsLogo> + number key to launch applications. For example if you find that you are launching Internet
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Saturday, February 21, 2009 9:18 AM

Some more love for Windows Live

  Continuing the sequence of more love for Windows Live, I am posting a couple of  more videos which shows the kinds of consumer scenarios that are possible with Windows Live.   Girl From Mars – Just click on the link to left  or the
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Friday, February 20, 2009 8:46 PM

A Little love for Windows Live – How easily Kylie uploads and shares photos

  I am planning to post a series of blog-posts on the ease of use and friendliness of using Windows Live. Well what the heck is Windows Live anyway. Windows Live is a comprehensively and well thought out set of integrated services (there is a key
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Thursday, February 19, 2009 7:10 PM

Windows Azure bringing Cloud computing to the mainstream

Windows Azure is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing platform and it brings several ideas and concepts in one neat coherent whole.   The first is developers should be able to write applications that run on the cloud and test it. This is given below.
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Saturday, February 14, 2009 12:36 PM

Windows Live Essentials – free download

I was chatting with some of my friends and I learnt that they did not know of the free goodies from Microsoft called Windows Essentials . So I decided to write a simple post on that including from where to get it . <Aside> And while you are at it
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Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:05 AM

Cool new nifty feature in Live Search

There is a cool and nifty feature in Live Search. For those who want to know quickly the stock price and or stock chart of a certain stock just type it in the Search box on the right of the browser.  You will immediately see a drop down with the
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009 12:11 PM

Live Services – Training material videos now available

Finally we are publicly releasing the internal Live Services Training power point decks and videos which we did worldwide at 11 locations. You can find the link to it in: http://dev.live.com/training/     The following are the various sessions
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 4:12 PM

Microsoft – Live Maps now available for Major Indian Cities

Check this out. The Live Search maps feature which was available for NA, Europe and a few other countries has now been expanded to be available in select major Indian cities. This is pretty cool for say to get driving directions in cities like Hyderabad
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Thursday, February 05, 2009 1:38 PM

Managing consent after granting “Delegated Authentication” to a website

Once consent has been granted to a Web Site, how does one manage the consent or revoke it. After all the CORE tenet of consent granting via Delegated Authentication is users should be in control. Well it is a very simple process. Log into https://consent.live.com
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