Microsoft Surface

Microsoft Surface, the 30 inch display that gives users the ability to interact with devices in a familiar way is now being launched in the retail environment. Users can use touch, gestures, and even placement of devices into the display. So it is actually a surface that gives life to learning, exploring, and sharing to anyone who uses it. AT&T will use the Microsoft Surface on its retail stores so that their customers will be able to use their devices without the traditional keyboard or mouse. Because of this, users can have the following benefits:

Learn – customers will be able to see the features of a mobile device by putting it onto the display. This is because Surface will recognize the device and it will put all the graphical overview of the gadget capabilities.

Explore – can use interactive coverage maps at various levels including state, local, or even on the street level by simply making use of hand movement and touch to scale the maps and determine its coverage area.

Customize – customers will have the ability to drag and then drop various media including ring tones, video, and graphics in the future.

As you can see, the Microsoft Surface can definitely provide a whole new experience to customers.

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Microsoft Server Guide for 2008 Now Available

The long awaited guide that provides instructions and great recommendations that will protect your computer against attacks is now released. The Windows Server 2008 has been officially released by Microsoft and you can expect that this tool will provide many other features to your computer system as well. The Solution Accelerator also provides different tools, recommendations, step-by-step procedures, and processes that will streamline the deployment activity of your computer.

The Microsoft engineering teams, outside consultants, as well as customers have all stated that the new Solution Accelerator is a great resource. It is a proven, authoritative, actionable, accurate, and relevant tool that makes it easier for your computer to function.

But probably the key tool in the Solution Accelerator is the GPOAccelerator because it runs a script that will automatically create the Group Policy objects that re required to run the security guidance. There is a workbook that comes with the guide so you will be able to compare and then evaluate the GPO settings.

Everyone should definitely make information technology their business because all computer users are bombarded daily by attacks that try to invade your network or access the servers in order to bring them down. These attacks are part of modern existence but the Windows Server Guide 2008 can help you stop it.

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DirectX 10: Disappointing.

“Many of the newest Windows games will take full advantage of the next-generation graphics technology in Windows Vista called DirectX 10.” says Microsoft. Gamers(mostly) don’t care what is behind the all hyped up DirectX 10. They care about the power it gives and the new feel it gives. And sorry to say, DX10 is not upto the mark.Wondering why? DX10 will only run on systems which have Windows Vista and a fairly high-end graphics card. Developers are really thinking whether to use DX10 considering the slow upgrades by users to Vista.

The upcoming games : Call of Juarez, Lost Planet and Company of heroes have the same kind of the DX9 feel with extra graphical improvements and some new features. Crave even ran a DX10 machine and DX9 machine side by side and it was nearly impossible to detect differences.

OUR TAKE: Don’t be sad that you just upgraded to Vista hoping to see some real game experience. Wait for more titles(more like kind hearted Devs) before you throw that machine to dogs.

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What will Windows 7 look like ?

Analysts said Microsoft probably is keeping tight-lipped about what Windows 7 will look like because at this point, company engineers and executives don’t even know.

“They don’t want to commit because they don’t have a good idea what’s in it,” said Michael Silver, an analyst with Gartner. “We’re three years out, so you can’t really expect that much detail.”

Michael Cherry, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft, said that with so many people still in the midst of upgrading to the latest client OS, Windows Vista, he’s hesitant to speculate on what might be in the next OS. “We barely know the features of the one we just got,” he said with a laugh.

That said, Cherry is expecting less “earth-shattering” new features than improvements on some of the new ones found in Windows Vista, such as the Bitlocker encryption feature, which is currently hard for the average PC user to navigate.

“You have to partition your hard drive and do a bunch of things, and you can only really today protect one drive, whereas many machines have more than one,” he said.

Cherry also pointed to a common hardware performance problem many users face because of Vista’s “very large footprint.” “It’s one of the things they might want to address — hardware utilization and performance,” he said. “It’s hard to put a big wrapper around that; it just needs to be better.”

One Microsoft executive gave a slight hint about what might turn up in Windows 7 earlier this year at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of development with Microsoft’s Windows Core Operating System Division, said in an interview that a “fundamental piece of enabling technology,” such as a hypervisor or a drastic change in the user interface, would likely turn up in Windows 7.

Fathi also said at RSA in February that Microsoft was in the middle of the planning process for Windows 7’s features and would know more over the next few months, which suggests the company now has a good idea what the OS will look like but is declining to disclose that information.

While both a hypervisor and a new user interface are possibilities for Windows 7, the former is almost a given, Gartner’s Silver said. “It almost has to go” in the OS, he said, describing the technology as “a really thin OS” that manages virtual machines running on the system.

It would behoove Microsoft to put a hypervisor in Windows 7 because it would give them more control over the hardware the OS runs on, something the company would prefer to have, Silver said.

“The hypervisor really owns the hardware, and Microsoft likes owning the hardware, and they want to be one of the people to standardize [hypervisor technology],” he said.

Vista includes such new features as desktop search and a new user interface, which also are two areas that leave room for expansion in Windows 7, analysts said.

Microsoft has shown the direction it’s going with the latter with its Surface computer, introduced in late May. That form factor looks like a coffee table with a touchscreen interface that lets users move photos around by hand and synchronize devices by placing them on the table.

With products like the Apple iPhone making the touchscreen popular with consumers, a touchscreen UI in Windows 7 is a possibility, Silver said. “They don’t want to look bad next to Apple,” he said.

Desktop search, a new feature built into Vista, also has room for improvement. Microsoft has said it will link desktop search to Windows Server 2008 so desktop users can search not only for local files but also for files on the server. This is a feature that potentially could be built into the desktop OS.

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Microsoft Launches Next generation of Windows Live

The next gen of windows live has been launched in the India. This next gen windows live comes equipped with a set of various new tools and equips in the country. This updated windows live has many built in security features. This allows the users to communicate and share from anywhere and also access multiple devices. This Os is regarded as an all in one package. This Os compliments the windows vista and desktop applications and it enables to connect both the online and the offline worlds together.

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