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As we’re hearing, Microsoft is ready to deploy Vista SP2 and Windows 7 Beta 1. Beside it Office SP2 is being prepared and today Microsoft announced Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the 2007 Microsoft Office System.

TechNet Blog says:

We’re pleased to announce that Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the 2007 Microsoft Office system is expected to be released in the near future.  Although we aren’t yet announcing the exact release date, it will fall between February and April of 2009.

Historically, we have waited to communicate details about service packs until their release (or very shortly before).  As we communicated with SP3 for Office 2003 and SP1 for the 2007 Office System, we will be taking steps to increase transparency and visibility into the Office servicing model at the request of our customers.  To that end, we would like to start sharing some details into what will be included in SP2 for the 2007 Office system.  This is by no means an exhaustive list of everything included in this service pack and we will share more details prior to the final release, but we want to start communicating to customers what they should be aware of at a high level. 

To be fair, this is not the first time we have talked about SP2.  Several months ago, we announced that we’ll be further demonstrating our increased commitment to interoperability by including support for Open Document Format (ODF), XML Paper Specification (XPS), and Portable Document Format (PDF) in SP2.  In addition to those file format additions, some other highlights that you’ll find in SP2 include:

For Office Desktop Programs:

• Improved Outlook Calendaring Reliability
• Improved Outlook Performance
• Enabling Object Model support for Charts in PowerPoint and Word
• Improved cryptographic functionality by supporting all cryptographic algorithms offered by the operating system
• Improved functionality in Excel’s charting mechanism
• Ability to ungroup SmartArt graphics (and as a result, the ability to add animations to them in PowerPoint)
• Ability for Visio to export UML models to an XML file compliant with the XMI standard
• Tool that enables the uninstall of Office client Service Packs

For Servers:

• Performance and manageability improvements to variations in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) including STSADM commands for repairing links between source and target pages
• Improvements around processing status approvals from Office Project Web Access into Office Project Professional 2007
• Improvements to read-only content databases and index rebuild timer jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

 

In the coming weeks, individual product teams across Office will begin updating their blogs and highlighting some of the specific work that they’ve included in SP2.  You can find the links to some of the blogs at the end of the post.

In the next few days we will also invite a select set of Office enterprise customers to a private SP2 beta.  From these customers we hope to gather great feedback about the service pack, including areas that we’ll need to improve upon before we release it to the general public.  Based on the success of the SP2 beta program and customer needs, we will certainly evaluate whether to expand this in the future.

Please check back for additional updates!

Thanks,

Office Service Pack Team

Source: TechNet Blog

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Probably a program was registered to launch automatically when you inserted a DVD, and that program was removed and when you insert any other DVD and try to launch a program, it prompts “Application not found.”

Its simplest trick that helps to get rid of such problem as well as initialize drive’s (including hard drives and DVD drives) context menu to default.

How to-

1. Run regedit (Registry Editor)
2. Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2
3. Remove or delete MountPoint2 key completely and close Registry Editor.
4. Logoff or restart your PC to take effect.
5. Now check n double click on your DVD drives. Happy Windows computing.

How do I ?, Windows 7, Windows Vista

Windows 7 has lots of features over Windows Vista, that make the difference of the Windows revolution. Send Feedback tool is one among those features & tools. It is used to direct submission of suggestions & report bugs of Windows 7 to Microsoft.

Its link has been placed just before min|max|close button of Windows 7 explorer but sometimes its annoying so here is a small registry trick that helps to get rid of Send Feedback tool’s link.

It works all Windows 7 M3 build 6801 or later builds.(not tested)

How to-

1. Run regedit (registry editor) and navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
2. Create or modify a DWORD value named FeedbackToolEnabled and set 0 and any even unsigned integer value (like 0,2,4…and so on) to hide or remove the link and set 1 or any odd unsigned integer value (like 1,3,5…and so on) to show or enable the Send Feedback tool link in Windows 7 explorer.
3. Logoff or Restart your PC to take effect.

How do I ?, Windows 7

Windows Live services and applications released into earlier of Q4 of the year 2008. As of December 15, 2008, Windows Live made yet another step forward, loosed the Beta tag. At the start of this week, Microsoft introduced the Windows Live Essentials Beta Refresh.

A number of Windows Live applications, including Live Messenger, Live mail,Photo Gallery, Live Writer, Movie Maker (still handing on beta tag) clients are now available for download as Beta Refresh builds.

Windows Live Messenger Build 14.0.8050.1202

 Full Offline Setup & Web Setup

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Microsoft India has announced BizSpark program for indian early startup stage enterprises. Microsoft BizSpark™ is a global program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage Startups by providing these resources:

Software. Receive fast and easy access to current full-featured Microsoft development tools, platform technologies, and production licenses of server products for immediate use in developing and bringing to market innovative and interoperable solutions. There is no upfront cost to enroll.

Support. Get connected to Network Partners around the world — incubators, investors, advisors, government agencies and hosters — that are equally involved and vested in software-fueled innovation and entrepreneurship who will provide a wide range of support resources.

Visibility. Achieve global visibility to an audience of potential investors, clients and partners

As a Microsoft BizSpark member, you’ll be tapping into a rich, vibrant ecosystem of peers, partners and support resources around the globe, helping you grow and succeed. Microsoft BizSpark is the quickest way to get your Startup fired up.

Software 

Development Tools, Platform Technologies and Production Licenses

• All the software included in the Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System Team Suite (VSTS) with MSDN® Premium subscription
• Expression® Studio Version 2
• VSTS Team Foundation Server (standard edition)
• Production use rights to host a “software as a service” solution (developed during participation in the BizSpark Program, on any
  platform) over the Internet, with regard to products including:
  – Microsoft Windows Server® (all versions up to and including Enterprise)
  – Microsoft SQL Server® (all versions)
  – Microsoft Office SharePoint® Portal Server
  – Microsoft System Center
  – Microsoft BizTalk® Server

Support 

Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN)
The Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) is a set of online services designed to help developers write applications using Microsoft products and technologies, including Web developers, hardware developers interested in the operating system, developers standing on the various operating system platforms, and developers leveraging the API and scripting languages of Microsoft’s many applications. The information is presented through assorted media: Web sites, newsletters, developer conferences, trade media, blogs and software distribution.

MSDN Library
A library of official technical documentation content intended for developers developing for Microsoft Windows®.

MSDN Premium
Each of your registered developers will get access to a MSDN Premium subscription.

Technical Support
Support for two incidents per Startup. This doesn’t literally mean just two phone calls: Your two incidents are attended to by Microsoft until they are fixed, no matter how many calls it takes.

Customer Support
Unlimited program support for non-technical issues to ensure your startup never misses a beat.

Global Community
Enrollment in Microsoft BizSpark connects you to a global community of peers, the Microsoft BizSpark Network Partners; they will provide you with an exclusive array of world-class legal and financial services, catered to Startups, to help guide you through all the dilemmas that entrepreneurial ventures face. And you’ll get priceless visibility with potential customers, partners and investors.  Expect to network and mingle with some of the hottest contacts in the industry.

Visibility 

Raising Your Profile
You have the opportunity to profile your company in the online Startup directory, BizSparkDB.com, on the Microsoft Startup Zone, giving you exposure to potential investors, partners and customers. Every day, Microsoft features Microsoft BizSpark Startups on the Microsoft Startup Zone Web site — just let us know about your innovation and you could be featured.

Microsoft BizSpark Availability

The program is available in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, U.K., Ukraine, Vietnam and the United States. 

Please visit http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark  for complete information on Microsoft BizSpark availability.

Program Eligibility

Requirements? Extremely minimal: If you’re a privately held company building a software-based product or service (even using open source code), in business for less than three years and have less than USD$1 million in annual revenue, you’re in.  For complete eligibility requirements, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark.

Microsoft is committed to the success of your Startup — and because spending money is the last thing you need to be doing when you’re just starting up, there’s no upfront cost to enroll.  Your participation in Microsoft BizSpark lasts as long as three years from the date of enrollment, unless you choose to exit the program early (or go public or are otherwise acquired). Renewal in the program is annual. Microsoft will assess a USD$100 program offering fee when your Startup exits the program.

Program Enrollment

To enroll, Startups simply find a BizSpark Network Partner at http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark

Note: If your Startup is not able to locate a Network Partner in its region, your Startup can contact a Microsoft representative and ask for assistance. This can be done directly from the Startup Enrollment Web site. http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/findnetworkpartner.aspx

Once the simple enrollment process is complete, participants will receive a welcome e-mail that includes a unique subscription ID that can be used to activate the software download benefits delivered via MSDN.

Microsoft BizSpark is currently offered in Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian.

Source: Microsoft India

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Microsoft has rolled out an updated look and feel  to the Genuine Microsoft Software Web site.

What changed?

The new look and feel is now more consistent with other Microsoft sites, such as Windows.com.  Microsoft has also added site navigation to the top of the page, so people will be able to find the information their looking for more quickly and easily.  Reporting piracy is also easier, including the process of applying for a complimentary replacement kit if you have been sold counterfeit software.  

What’s coming next? 

Over the next months Microsoft has a number of content updates planned including providing more information about Microsoft program and products, additional information about activation and validation technologies, as well as how Microsoft has been fighting piracy and making it easier for customers to avoid buying counterfeit Microsoft products.

Source: WGA Blog

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