Posts Tagged ‘beta’

January 1 2010

Office 2010: New features

I’ve been using the Office 2010 Technical Preview and the Beta for quite some time now. In this post, I share 10 new features in Office 2010 that I like.

Video Editing features in Powerpoint
You can now easily trim a video (i.e. play only a section of a video) or [...]

May 25 2009

Windows 7 Beta: Shutdowns begin from July 1

Windows 7 Beta will begin bi-hourly shutdowns starting from July 1, 2009. The Beta will completely expire on August 1, 2009.
Windows 7 Beta users should do a clean install of Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC), which will expire on June 1, 2010. Bi-hourly shutdowns of the RC will start on March 1, 2010.

May 14 2009

SharePoint Server 2010 needs 64-bit SQL Server

SharePoint Server 2010 will require a 64-bit edition of SQL Server – more specifically either SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008 running on Windows Server 2008.
SharePoint Server 2010 will not support Internet Explorer 6. Users will have to use Internet Explorer 7 or above. However, non-Microsoft  browsers such as FireFox 3.x (on Windows & [...]

April 26 2009

Instant Messaging inside Outlook Web Access

Outlook Web Access in Exchange Server 2010 offers integrated instant messaging capability right from the browser.
Check this out:

You also see presence information against each contact in an email header.

You can also change your status from the top right corner of the OWA page:

April 26 2009

Exchange 2010 Beta

The public beta of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, part of Microsoft’s unified communications family, is now available. Exchange 2010 is the first server in a new generation of Microsoft server technology designed and developed to work on-premises and as an online service, and introduces a new integrated e-mail archive and features to reduce costs and [...]

February 24 2009

Ribbon Interface in Windows 7

February 24, 2009
It has been quite a while since Paint and WordPad, two of the most common Windows accessories got some makeover.
Paint was one of the first Windows tools I ever used. Back in the Windows 3.x days it used to be called “Paintbrush”. WordPad used to be called “Write”.
Those days have gone by, [...]