The father of the PC dies aged 68

Tributes have been led by Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen today for Dr Henry Edward Roberts, the man considered the “father of the personal computer” who died on Apr 1st, aged 68 after a long bout of pneumonia.

The man who kick-started the careers of the Microsoft founders was the inventor of the Altair 8800 microcomputer that sparked the home computer revolution.

Ed was willing to take a chance on us – two young guys interested in computers long before they were commonplace – and we have always been grateful to him," the Microsoft founders said today.

They said "We will always have many fond memories of working with Ed in Albuquerque, in the MITS office right on Route 66 – where so many exciting things happened that none of us could have imagined back then”

Source:BBC

Windows 7 –My idea

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.

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Source – Microsoft Press Blog

Communication Server “14”

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