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  • How to share Office doc with Facebook friends ?

    Facebook will be launching a collaborative document-editing tool with Microsoft. Docs.com has been be released to the public. Users will be able to find, create and share Microsoft Office documents with their Facebook friends. The site, which aims to blend two familiar experiences, was built using Microsoft Office 2010. To know more, just click HERE

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  • How do we work and live at Microsoft ?

    At Microsoft, we welcomed 60 nearly young graduates from different Belgian Universities. The idea was to share full experience on how we work and live and how technology enables innovation and flexibility. I had the opportunity to make a presentation with Luc Van de Velde (DPE Lead) on the current Consumer (R)evolution. Take a look

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  • Natal Project (Xbox 360) tested by VTM (News) !

    The natal Project (Xbox 360) has been tested by VTM, during a NATAL Test in Paris. A good accoasion to see how you can play with your BODY. This has been broacasted for VTM News ! To review this, just click HERE

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  • Windows Phone 7 Series represents a dramatic change for Microsoft !

    Windows Phone 7 Series represents a dramatic change for Microsoft.  The new platform strategy is built around prioritizing end user experience, delivering a new development platform and enforcing a consistent hardware standard. During today’s keynote at MIX10, Joe Belfiore, corporate vice president and director of Windows Phone Program Management, revealed the details on the new

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  • Are you in the CLOUD ?

    Today, we are all using services which are in the cloud. But what does it mean ? Steve Ballmer discussed, last week with students from Washington Universities,  what’s ahead for computing, with a focus on how cloud computing that will change the way people and businesses use technology. To know more on this, just click HERE

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  • Positive market’s reaction to Windows Phone 7 (Bloomberg)

    The above video is an interesting look at the market’s reaction to Windows Phone 7. Nicholas Thompson, senior editor at Wired Magazine and a Bloomberg Television contributing editor, talks with Bloomberg’s Betty Liu about Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 7 software and the outlook for its Windows Phone 7 mobile-phone operating system. By the way, Thompson also

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  • I’ve discovered today the new Windows Phone 7 Series

    I’m @ START (Microsoft)  meeting today @ Seattle. In that framework, I’ve seen a demo of the New Windows Phone 7 Series. This is amazing how Microsoft will bring internet to the Consumer by creating an intergrated experience, including services as Windows Live, Facebook, Xbox Live, Zune, … Take a look at this Video explaining this

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  • New alliance between Yahoo and Microsoft : Today, this is the final clearance from the European Commission.

    The Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance combines the complementary strengths of Yahoo! and Microsoft to create a competitive choice in search with the scale to fuel sustained development. Both companies aim to ultimately enable searchers to find relevant results faster, and provide more value for advertisers and better results for web publishers. If you look

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  • Outlook integrates social-network as Linkedin and Facebook.

    This Wednesday, Microsoft issued beta software that brings social-network information into Outlook. The product, called Outlook Social Connector, has been available in the Office 2010 beta. Go to  Outlook Social Connector download site and you will discover that the new version works with Outlook 2003 and 2007 and connects with social-network partners, which wasn’t the case

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  • 10 things to know from Microsoft’s X10 Press Event.

    Microsoft’s X10 press event has come and gone. In case you missed anything, you will find a here below a very good wrap-up. Here-below, another very good overview from Major Nelson ==> 10 things you need to know coming out of X10 today: The Halo Reach multiplayer beta will kick off on May 3. You will be able to

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  • Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 Series

    Microsoft has just unveiled the latest version of its mobile operating system — Windows Phone 7 Series — live at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

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  • Microsoft Game Division Triples Profits In Strong Quarter

    Tech giant Microsoft saw its second fiscal quarter profits rise 60 percent year over year in the three months rounding out 2009, outpacing a 14 percent revenue gain.   Entertainment and Devices Division, a larger division that includes the Xbox 360, Games for Windows, and Zune, managed to triple its profits even as revenue fell.

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  • Microsoft Outpaces Apple in Customer Satisfaction

    Microsoft Corp. got a bigger boost in customer satisfaction from its latest computer operating system than rival Apple Inc. did from its most recent upgrade.The CHART OF THE DAY shows that respondents giving Microsoft a positive grade for satisfaction rose to 67 percent in the week after the Oct. 22 release of Windows 7, from

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  • Create your own @hotmail.be address !

    I’m happy to share something new for Belgian people using hotmail / msn From now, you can create your own @hotmail.be address … So, you can surf to www.hotmail.be (or to Hotmail from www.msn.be) and select ‘register’ to create your brand new @hotmail.be address. So go & create your firstname@hotmail.be address. Quick links (sign out

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  • Record Revenue for MICROSOFT !

    I’m very glad to show you very good performances of the last Quarter Microsoft (the company I’m working for :-)) This is a record for the revenue = $19.0 billion for the last Quarter,  and earnings per share of 74 cents Dec 2009 was a very strong quarter for Microsoft, in which the Windows attach rate started climbing.

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  • A Big-Picture with services from Google, Microsoft, Apple and Yahoo

    The world is changing and the digitalisation of everything (musis, picture, video, …) will accelerate adoption of new technologoes and servies by the consumers. I realize this since I’ve been working for Microsoft. Stepping back further than a single search engine fight, it’s evident that Google, Microsoft, Apple, and even Yahoo are now competing in

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  • 6 biggest Microsoft stories of 2009

    I’ve read a good artcile about the biggest Microsoft stories of 2009 I made a summary of the 6 biggest stories. 2009 was the year of two big product launches, Bing and Windows 7, and finally reached a search deal with Yahoo. Here, in no particular order, are the 6 biggest stories of 2009 in the Microsoft ecosystem.

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  • What has been announced at CES 2010 around Natal ?

    Project Natal and other natural user interface products Microsoft is working on are helping usher in a new generation of human–computer interaction. Robbie Bach demonstrates how body movements control Project Natal, a natural user interface Xbox 360 add-in scheduled for release in the fall. Take a look at the viedo here-below. Bill Buxton first used

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  • What is KODU ? A language for KIDS to design and build new GAMES.

    Kodu is a visual programming language made specifically for creating games. Look at the video here-below to know more on this.  It is designed to be accessible for children and enjoyable for anyone. Go on Kodu Internet Site to discover it : http://fuse.microsoft.com/kodu/ KEY FEATURES Kodu provides an end-to-end creative environment for designing, building, and playing your own

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  • 10 things Microsoft did right in 2009

    Very interesting post done by Joe Wilcox. Click here-below to know more.  http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/10-things-Microsoft-did-right-in-2009/1261377163To summarize, here-below, the 10 things Microsoft did right in 2009:  Opened retail stores.   Flawlessly launched Windows 7. Offered crapware-free PCs. Launched Bing. Released Security Essentials. Promoted Steven Sinofsky. Released Zune 4.0 software and Zune HD. Settled antitrust case with the European

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