Webster said he initially came up with "Bang." The name had a few things going for it, he noted. "It's there, it's an exclamation point," he said. "It's the opposite of a question mark."
But somehow it didn't work as well when used as a verb.
"Oh, I banged it' is very different than 'I binged it'," he said.
In the end, he said, Bing proved to be a near-perfect choice, representing what he called "the sound of found."
"We really hit the jackpot with Bing," he said.
This Free ebook from Microsoft Press - Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (DRAFT Preview)
This DRAFT Preview contains three chapters from what will be a ten-chapter ebook when it’s released this summer. The three chapters make up Part II, “Moving from Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 to Visual Studio 2010.”
You can download the DRAFT Preview of this ebook in XPS format here.
Download size: 63.8MB
Source – Microsoft Press Blog
At the VoiceCon Orlando 2010 conference, Microsoft Corp. announced that the next version of its unified communications software, code-named Communications Server “14,” will be available in the second half of 2010. In his keynote address, Gurdeep Singh Pall, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Office Communications Group, demonstrated the new software for the first time publicly and said Communications Server “14” will help make communications simpler, more open and more cost-efficient.
Pall said the new software includes a complete communications solution, with full enterprise telephony; a familiar and powerful way to communicate and collaborate using a sleek, simplified Communicator client that works with Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint Server and Microsoft Exchange; and a versatile platform that allows customers to embed communications in applications. In addition, customers will be able to use instant messaging, presence and other capabilities of the software both on-premises and in the cloud with Microsoft Office Communications Online.
Among the capabilities demonstrated today, Pall showed how Communications Server “14” helps people find colleagues based on their expertise through a new skill search feature; understand when their colleagues are available to collaborate and, with a new location-awareness feature, where they are available; easily initiate collaboration; and bring together the content, resources and people needed to work together.
Source- Microsoft Press Release
Bing, a new search decision experience, takes a new approach to helping customers use search to make better decisions, focusing initially on four key user tasks and related areas: making a purchase, planning a trip, researching a health condition or finding a local business.
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Internet Explorer 9 platform preview release is available now for download but its made available only for windows 7 and Vista platform.
Though its Platform preview version, you will not have the extra features which is available in previous version. This is made available for the public only to check the HTML5 and CSS3 Capabilities.
you cannot see even the address bar so if you want to open the webpage in IE9 PPR, Select Open from the Page menu or type Ctrl+O, The Open Web Page dialog box will always show the URL of the current page, Enter the Internet address (URL) of the Web page to which you wish to navigate. Alternatively, you may type the path of or browse for a file on your local computer and click OK. You can press F5 to refresh the currently open page if the file or Web page is not found, you’ll see only a blank page.
At the IE9 homepage there are different Graphics , HTML5 and CSS3 demos are available to test on Internet Explorer 9 PPR.
The Microsoft® Silverlight™ 4 SDK RC contains online documentation, online samples, libraries and tools for developing Silverlight 4 applications.
Usage of the SDK is subject to the SDK License (included in the package).
For a limited time, you can download this free e-book. First Look: Microsoft Office 2010, by Katherine Murray, offers 14 chapters of early content.
Download :
First Look: Microsoft Office 2010 PDF file
First Look: Microsoft Office 2010 XPS file
The book includes
Part I, "Envision the Possibilities,”
Part II, "Hit the Ground Running,”
Part III, "Next Steps with Office 2010,"
The time with a tweaking utility called windows 7 taskbar thumbnail Customizer. This tool will allow you to resize & tweak the Windows 7 taskbar thumbnails left & right, in & out!
Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer will allow you to customize Windows 7 taskbar thumbnail previews in detail. You can change the size of the thumbnail, its spacing, top, bottom, left, right margins and text height too!
Find the spacing or margin not to your liking? Go ahead and change them! Or maybe you want to customize the text height! You can do that too.
Once you have made your choices, click on Apply Changes. The explorer.exe will restart to apply the changes.
It has been developed by Kishan Bagaria, age 12 and a Class VII student. He blogs at Kishan.info, and it is inspired by a MVP Ramesh Srinivasan blog Winhelpline.com.and the credit for the tweaks used in this app goes to him.
A ramping up for TechEd EMEA and tonight came across conclusive proof that Windows 7 is: Smart, has a small footprint and is available in multiple languages..
What can I say? I am a geek at heart..
Cheers
The Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 (Web PI) is a free tool that makes getting the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including Internet Information Services (IIS), SQL Server Express, .NET Framework and Visual Web Developer easy. The Web PI also makes it easy to install and run the most popular free web applications for blogging, content management and more with the built-in Windows Web Application Gallery
Support for Web Platform Installer can be received by visiting the Web Platform Installer Forum to discuss issues and suggestions.
“Twitter is a social network used by millions of people, and thousands more are signing up every day to send short messages to groups of friends.
To make Twitter as easy as possible , they have released the user manual or the guide book called Twitter guide book
This book covers a majority of features of Twitter & lot of How-to including Twitter basics, Twitter for Business, Managing your business via Twitter, Building your community etc.
A PDF reader is required to view the Guide.
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