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Windows Phone 7.8 SDK releasesd

Post last modified:January 23, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Windows Phone 7.8 SDK is now available for download.What’s new in this windows phone SDK?

Windows Phone 7.8 emulator: This OS image emulates your app running on a 512-MB device running Windows Phone 7.8 (build 8858).
Windows Phone 7.8 256MB emulator: This OS image emulates Windows Phone 7.8 (build 8858) running on a 256-MB device.
If you’re running a Windows Phone SDK 7.1 installation, the update will also download and install the Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 update onto your machine as part of the update.
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Windows 8 Pricing after january 31, 2013

Post last modified:January 19, 2013
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Post author:Manikandan

Windows 8 upgrade editions will be sold as follows after jan 31st 2013:

The Windows 8 Pro upgrade edition will be available online and at retail for $199.99 MSRP (U.S.).
The Windows 8 upgrade edition will be available online and at retail for $119.99 MSRP (U.S.).
The Windows 8 Pro Pack will cost $99.99 MSRP (U.S.).
The Windows 8 Media Center Pack will cost $9.99 MSRP (U.S.).
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60 million Windows 8 licenses sold

Post last modified:January 9, 2013
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Post author:Manikandan

Windows Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Financial Officer Tami Reller has announced that 60 million licenses of Windows 8 have been sold to date and it includes both upgrades and sales to OEMs for new devices. And the Windows store has passed the 100 million app download mark in just two months.According to Tami there are more than 1700 certified systems for Windows 8 and Windows RT.

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Penguin Mark – web browser performance benchmark

Post last modified:December 22, 2012
Post category:Websites
Post author:Manikandan

Microsoft launched its 2012 holiday web browser performance benchmark website called Penguin Mark.”This website brings together hardware-accelerated HTML5 capabilities like canvas, CSS3 animations and transitions, audio, WOFF, power and performance APIs, and more. Be sure to turn your volume up for maximum entertainment. The faster your browser, the higher your Penguin Mark score goes.” from IE blog.
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Microsoft shuts down Expression suite

Post last modified:January 8, 2016
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Post author:Manikandan

Microsoft has announced that its Expression suite of Web and design-oriented tools (Expression Studio 4 Ultimate and Expression Studio 4 Web Professional) will no longer be sold.User who have previously purchased the software will have their mainstream support end in 2015 and extended support ends on 2020.Expression Design 4 and Expression Web 4 are now available for download at no charge. Technical support will not be available for these free versions.Expression Encoder 4 Pro will be available for purchase through 2013. Expression Encoder 4 remains available for
download at no charge.
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Deprecated features on Outlook 2013

Post last modified:December 20, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

Microsoft has released a list of the features that won’t be a part of its Outlook 2013.

The features are:

Classic Offline Mode for Microsoft Exchange accounts
Deliver to PST for Exchange accounts
Calendar Publishing to Office.com (PubCal)
VPN and Dialup Settings
Outlook search via the Windows Shell
Journaling
Import/Export to ACT! Contact manager files, Word 97-2003 (.doc),Excel 97-2003 (.xls),Outlook Express archives
Legacy Contact Linking/Activities Tab

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90 day free trial of Office 365 for Small businesses

Post last modified:December 20, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

Microsoft now offers 90 day free trial of Office 365 ,the online productivity software service. The offer is limited to 10 users per account and business can sign up for this offer until the end of February.No credit card required to get this offer.
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Microsoft adds DMARC and EV features to Outlook.com

Post last modified:December 11, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

Microsoft has announced two important new security features to outlook.com.
The first one is DMARC, a standard that makes it harder for someone to deliver phishing mail to your inbox. And the second one is support for Extended Validation Certificates (EV Certificates), which provides a more secure SSL connection when you are using Outlook.com.

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Microsoft Surface Pro pricing

Post last modified:January 13, 2016
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Post author:Manikandan

Microsoft has announced that the Surface Pro tablet will be priced starting at $899 when it comes out in January 2013.

Surface Pro with Windows 8 Pro will be available in two versions:

64GB standalone version at $899

128GB standalone version at $999
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40 Million Windows 8 Licenses Sold -Microsoft

Post last modified:November 28, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

According to the official Windows blog, Windows business head Tami Reller stated that Microsoft has now sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses since the launch and Windows 8 is outpacing Windows 7 in terms of upgrades.
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