As part of promoting Microsoft softwares among young generations, Microsoft is giving away its famous products for free, to students. The program named DreamSpark, they says "it's all about giving students Microsoft professional-level developer and design tools at no charge so you can chase your dreams and create the next big breakthrough in technology - or just get a head start on your career", has been kicked off aiming to build trust and awareness among the young generations about the MS Products.

The products lined up for DreamSpark program are, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition, MS Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition, Microsoft Expression Studio, XNA Game Studio 2.0, XNA Creators Club Online and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition. Everything free of charge!!!.

If you are a student who belongs to any of the accredited schools in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, China, Germany, France, Finland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium, then you are lucky enough to claim this free offer today itself. Also Microsoft mentioned that, they are working towards to add more countries and schools to their DreamSpark program.

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This new Vista Media Center Edition will be including in the versions Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows Vista Premium; in Windows Vista Home BASIC we will not have multimedia center. The basic functionalities are those that already have come observing during these last year’s within Media Center, TV, DVD, Photos and in general all the related one to the digital entertainment, which if it has improved remarkably is the experience of user and the menus of navigation which now they are from top to bottom and left to right.



Seeing tale and the DVD: The televising experience has improved slightly, the controls are such of always and the functionalities also, now the use of software is more intuitive, the improvements are practically imperceptible. Music, videos, photos… multimedia! Now he is much more intuitive to add folders from the system to the bookstore and is centralized in a single point. The system detects automatically that type of multimedia we are adding so that later he is available in each one of the menus. The interface does not have great improvements in functionalities, but the usabilidad and the interface have given an important qualitative jump. We can see discs of a much more familiar way, being able to order by author, sort, album… The photography’s have a spectacular system of “slideshow” the quality with which we see the material is excellent.

Media Center Extenders: Perhaps we have proven to connect XboX 360 to our Media Center; this is to extend commonest in all the houses, in previous versions Now it is easier that to never connect extenders to the PC, simply with an assistant, introducing the code that indicates Extender to us, the system will be connected automatically.

In summary: The next version of Windows Media Center bring us many surprises, and of course for many Media Center goes has to be one of them, since it continues being one of the great strangers in the world Windows. With the arrival of the digital home integration between TV and PC increases day to day and MC will help us to have all our bookstore perfectly organized multimedia.

Microsoft is in the process of giving its download portal a new intuitive interface and look & feel to match up with its own Windows Vista.

The new website for downloading softwares from Microsoft, has integrated live search for searching softwares. This site gives more emphasis on popular downloads and newly added downloads. The site also includes categorized links for downloads, which helps users to easily browse through and get what they are looking for.

This change in download portal of Microsoft, underscores their user friendly perception in internet. [ View Microsoft's Download site preview ]

Microsoft corporation has launched a website for helping people to choose right computer configuration specific to each users need. The web site named myrightpc.com gives a very easy and user friendly interface to help users to choose their best PC configuration satisfying their needs.



In order to choose the best configuration for your needs, user has to visit the myrightpc.com and answer very few questions. After collecting all the inputs from user, the site will give the PC configuration report. The report will have all the details about the different components in the PC that fit best with user's needs.

This site is mainly targeted to promote Windows Vista from Microsoft, thus you cannot expect any other Operating System prescribed in the configuration. Also there is a list of retailers in different cities across India for purchasing the prescribed PC configuration. Although the site targets Indian users, but the PC configuration wizard can be used in other countries like United States, United Kingdom, Singapore, Germany, Japan, Russia and China.

Photo Story 3 for Windows is an excellent tool from Microsoft to convert or to say express your photos and images as video. Photo Story 3 gives you a very user friendly interface, that will let you narrate your story with photos and images.



Photo Story 3 offers lot of cool features

• This will let you import images as group.
• You can adjust color level and correct the red eye in images.
• It allows you to give lot of effects like black and white, sepia, washout, negative and diffuse glow and heading to each photos.
• You can even customize the time of motion in each photos.
• Even this will allow you to put background music to your video story, either by selecting a pre-existing one or by creating by itself.
• You can even create the video album for your Smart Phone or Pocket PC with Windows Media Player 10 Mobile or even for Portable Media Center.

Photo Story 3 is a great tool that will let you create a video album from your static photos of an event. This will be very much helpful if you wish to create your marriage video album from your marriage photos. Here is a tutorial from Microsoft that will explain you how to make wedding photos to a wedding memories video album.
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Even if you doesn't have Microsoft PowerPoint you can view the PowerPoint presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2007. You can view all the Microsoft PowerPoint presentations created in PowerPoint 97 and later versions but without following Microsoft PowerPoint features.

• Information Rights Management (IRM) presentations.
• Running macros, programs, or opening linked or embedded objects.

System requirements for Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2007 are:

• Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4; Windows Server 2003; Windows Vista; Windows XP Service Pack 1
• RAM Requirements:
• For Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4: 64 MB of RAM
• For Windows XP with Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2003: 128 MB of RAM
• For Windows Vista: 512 MB of RAM
• Disk requirements: 5 MB of available hard disk space
• Display requirements: Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher screen resolution

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Here is an offer for small businesses from Microsoft, Microsoft® Office Accounting Express 2007. This has everything a small business need to make their business idea flourish. Whatever may be your idea, you can take it further with the help of Microsoft® Office Accounting Express 2007.

Its great features are:

Helps you save time on everyday tasks

• Create quotes and invoices; track expenses and employee time.
• Enter data once and share it seamlessly with other Microsoft Office system programs.
• Manage payroll and taxes with ADP’s integrated payroll service.

Helps to have a complete view of your business

• Store and organize all your customer, vendor, employee, and financial information in one place.
• Get business insights with over 20 customizable reports.
• Easily share your books with your accountant through Office Live.

Facilate the growth of your business online

• List items on eBay, track sales activity, and download and process orders.
• Email invoices and get paid faster with PayPal.
• Monitor your customers’ business credit in real-time through Equifax.
• Share your financial data with your accountant easily through Office Live.

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Want to experience the thrill of Microsoft Office 2007, without installing it??.
Yes Microsoft has launched its Office 2007 Test Drive.

You can have the test drive for:
* Microsoft Office Access 2007
* Microsoft Office Excel 2007
* Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
* Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
* Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
* Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager
* Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access
* Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
* Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007
* Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
* Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007
* Microsoft Office Visio 2007
* Microsoft Office Word 2007


Basic requirements to make the test drive are,* Windows 98, 2000 and XP
* Internet Explorer 5.5 and later
* Citrix Browser Plug-in

So, go ahead and enjoy the thrill of Microsoft Office 2007 Test Drive.

Microsoft has published the learning materials for its exciting Office 2007. Microsoft Learning has the resources that you need to take full advantage of the new set of powerful tools available in its Office 2007.


For a limited time, you can take free E-Learning courses, find special offers for classroom training, and download free E-Reference books from Microsoft Press.
The learning materials are classified for targetting Home & Office Workers, IT Professionals and Developers.
So, Start Learning today and master Microsoft Office 2007 for tomorrow!!!
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Its time for Office 2007 trial. Yes, Microsoft is giving you all its new Office System fora trial period of 60 days. With this offer users can enjoy the rich and exciting features ofMicrosoft Office 2007, with its new array of tools and applications.

The System requirements for Office 2007 are:

• Operating system:Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 2 or later or Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (or higher) required.
• Computer and processor:500 megahertz (MHz) processor or higher; 256 megabyte (MB) RAM or higher; DVD drive; 1 gigahertz (GHz) and 512 MB of RAM or higher is required to run Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager.
• Hard disk:2 gigabyte (GB) necessary for install; a portion of this disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard drive.
• Monitor resolution:Minimum 800x600; 1024x768 or higher recommended.
• Internet connection:Broadband connection, 128 kilobits per second (Kbps) or greater, for download and activation of products.
• Additional components:Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 with service packs, Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 or later required for Outlook 2007 users. To install Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, you will need to first install Outlook 2007.

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