Microsoft has announced a new email platform Outlook.com.This is the new Hotmail, which is now called Outlook.
What’s new in Outlook.com?
Clean Interface metro UI
social integration
SkyDrive integration
Skype integration
Just go to Outlook.com and sign up for Outlook.com mail account.
You can also upgrade your account to Outlook.com from Hotmail.com or Live.com email address.
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Microsoft has announced Microsoft Office 2013 Customer Preview and also announcing that the Office 2013 preview is available for download.
System Requirements:
Computer and processor: 1 Ghz or greater x86/x64 Processor with SSE2 instruction set
Memory: 1 GB RAM (32 Bit) /2 GB RAM (64 Bit)
Hard disk: 3.5 GB free disk space
Operating System: Windows 7 or newer, either 32-bit or 64-bit; Windows 2008R2 or newer with .Net 3.5 or greater.
Graphics: Graphics hardware acceleration requires DirectX10 graphics card and 1024 x 576 resolution
Note :To use with Windows 8 you must be running the Release Preview version or higher.
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Microsoft officially announced Officer 365 for education and it is now available for K-12 and college students and faculty members for free.Office 365 for education offers Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote — and combines it with Microsoft Lync, SharePoint.
Main features:
shared workspaces
synchronized notebooks
instant messaging
audio- and videoconferencing
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Microsoft has announced the $1.2 billion purchase of Yammer, enterprise users the social network. It has more than five million users.The deal closed for $1.2 billion in cash.
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Microsoft has announced Surface, windows 8 pro and windows RT based tablets at the company’s Los Angeles press event by the company’s CEO Steve Ballmer.
Microsoft Surface Windows RT tablet features:
Os:Windows RT
10.6″ cleartype display
micro SD,USB2.0,micro HD video,2×2 MIMO antenna
VaporMg Case and stand
Touch cover and Type cover
32 GB and 64GB editions
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Microsoft announced an update to its SkyDrive with new cool features.SkyDrive now available for Windows,Mac OS X ,Windows Phone and iOS.
What’s new?
7GB free for all new SkyDrive users.
Ability to upload large files – up to 2GB.
Paid storage plans (+20GB, +50GB, +100GB) and prices (US$10/year, US$25/year, US$50/year).
SkyDrive for the Windows desktop:
View and manage your personal SkyDrive directly from Windows Explorer on Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows Vista with this new preview app available in 106 languages worldwide.
Fetching files through SkyDrive.com:
Easily access, browse, and stream files from a remote PC running the preview app to just about anywhere by simply fetching them via SkyDrive.com.
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Microsoft has announced that it will move the Bing Search API to Microsoft’s Windows Azure Marketplace and going to charge for it’s search API calls.
Some Notes:
approximately $40 (USD) per month for up to 20,000 queries.
transition will begin in several weeks and will take a few months to complete.
After the transition period, Bing Search API 2.0 will no longer be available for free public use
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AOL announced that it has entered a agreement to sell over 800 of its patents and their related patent applications and licenses for AOL’s remaining 300 patents to Microsoft.
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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is now available for purchase and download.What’s new in this release?
SQL Server AlwaysOn- a new high availability solution delivering increased application availability.
xVelocity – boost data warehouse and analytics performance by up to 100x.
Power View -a web-based, highly interactive, data visualization and presentation solution.
new SQL Server Data Quality Services and enhanced Master Data Services.
Enhanced PowerPivot functionalities.
New Business Intelligence (BI) Semantic Model.
SQL Server Data Tools.
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Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 has gone on sale.”LightSwitch offers downloadable starter kits and flexible deployment options that help you create and easily release custom business apps that look professional and polished, with no coding required”.And it includes customizable templates and enables you to write custom business logic.To know more click
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