Microsoft Expression Media Reader (Mac)

Expression Media Reader is a free application that enables you to share Expression Media catalogs with anyone on the Macintosh or Windows platform who may not own Expression Media.

Expression Media users create catalogs that they can subsequently save and distribute, along with the original images, if they choose. Users who do not own Expression Media can then use Expression Media Reader to view, label, rate, and add comments to the distributed catalogs. Expression Media Reader opens catalogs written by Expression Media, iView Media, and MediaPro 1.5, 2.x or 3.x. and is also compatible with all the files that Expression Media can open. In addition, Expression Media Reader features the Slide Show function included in Expression Media.

For more information about Expression Media, visit the Microsoft Expression website.

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Microsoft Math 3.0 Trial

According to an independent survey conducted by Microsoft, 77 percent of teachers and 73 percent of parents claim math and science are the most difficult homework subjects for students. To help with this problem, Microsoft developed a new resource.

Introducing Microsoft Math!

With Microsoft Math, students learn how to solve equations step-by-step while gaining a better understanding of fundamental math and science concepts.

Microsoft Math has these great features:

The Graphing Calculator, with extensive graphing and equation-solving capabilities.

• Step-by-Step Math Solutions that guide students through problems in subjects from pre-algebra to calculus.
• The Formulas and Equations Library, with more than 100 common math equations and formulas to help students identify and easily apply the right equation.
• The Triangle Solver, a graphing tool that students can use to explore triangles, and understand the relationship between different components to solve sides, angles, values and formulas.
• The Unit Conversion Tool lets students quickly and easily convert units of measure including length, area, volume, weight, temperature, pressure, energy, power, velocity and time.
• New! Ink Handwriting Support works with Tablet and Ultra-Mobile PCs, so students can write out problems by hand and have them recognized by Microsoft Math.

Download the free 30-day trial version now

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Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1

Beta of Exchange 2007 SP1 (to be released through TechNet plus this April), and as always we wanted to discuss it publicly here first. We are targeting final release with Longhorn Server 2nd half of this year.

Our work in this service pack is purely in response to your feedback on earlier releases of Exchange 2007. A partial list of what you'll find included in this SP is:

Standby Continuous Replication (SCR)

With Exchange 2007, we introduced Clustered Continuous Replication (CCR) for replication of data between 2 servers within a cluster within the same datacenter. With SCR, data replicates to a non-clustered server in a remote datacenter. If the primary datacenter becomes unavailable, the standby replica in the second datacenter is readily available to be activated.

Mobility

New policies for:

* Enforcing encryption of main memory contents on device
* Enforcing which applications are allowed/blocked from running on the device
* Enforcing networking capabilities: disable wifi, Bluetooth, infrared, external storage
* Enforcing communication capabilities: disable SMS, MMS, POP/IMAP, disable camera

OWA

SP1 will fill in the feature holes that we just didn't have time to complete by RTM:

* Personal distribution lists
* S/MIME
* Rules
* Monthly calendar view
* Deleted items recovery

OWA 2007 SP1 spell checking will add support for:

* Arabic
* Korean

OWA 2007 SP1 will add support for viewing Office 2007 file formats as HTML.

Exchange Management Console

SP1 will fill in the GUI holes that we just didn't have time to complete by RTM, including:

* Public folder configuration
* POP and IMAP configuration
* SendAs permission configuration
* Delegation wizard scenarios

Web Services

New web service coverage will include:

* Public folder access
* Delegate management
* Folder permission management

IPv6

On Longhorn Server, we will support Exchange 2007 on native IPv6 networks.

Move Mailbox

This vital tool administrator tool has been beefed up to include import and export to a .pst

Windows Desktop Search 3.01

Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.01 is a minor update to Windows Desktop Search 3.0 that adds: support for indexing UNC files, additional support for enterprise deployment, and stability improvements. WDS 3.01 installs on Windows XP and Window Server 2003, but is not needed for Windows Vista since the WDS component is already included in Vista. Windows Desktop Search 3.01 helps you to find, preview, and use your documents, e-mail, music, photos, and other items. The search engine in Windows Desktop Search 3.01 is a Windows service that is also used by applications such as Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and OneNote 2007 to index application content and deliver instant results when searching within that application.

If you choose to install and use Windows Desktop Search, you can search for e-mail, documents and other files located on your computer. No information about the files on your computer will be sent to Microsoft as part of this process. Instead, Windows Desktop Search will index the content of your computer and store the index file on your computer. You can customize Windows Desktop Search to index only specified folders on your computer. Windows Desktop search will not store copies of e-mail or documents after they are deleted.

Note WDS 3.01 can be installed as a new install or as an upgrade from 02.05.xxxx, 02.06.xxxx or 03.00.0000. On an upgrade from 03.00.0000, you will not need to rebuild your index.

This download package includes the Update.exe, ADM File and Add-in for Files on Microsoft Networks.

After you install these items, you may have to restart your computer.

Also available:

• Windows Desktop Search 3.01 for Windows XP x64 Edition (KB917013)
• Windows Desktop Search 3.01 for Windows Server 2003 (KB917013)
• Windows Desktop Search 3.01 for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB917013)
• Multilingual User Interface Pack for Windows Desktop Search 3.01 for Windows XP (KB917013)

News source: Microsoft

Virtual PC 2007

Save time and money as Virtual PC allows you to maintain the compatibility of legacy and custom applications during migration to new operating systems and increases the efficiency of support, development, and training staffs. With Microsoft® Virtual PC 2007, you can create and run one or more virtual machines, each with its own operating system, on a single computer. This provides you with the flexibility to use different operating systems on one physical computer.

System Requirements

• Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition; Windows Vista Business; Windows Vista Business 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Enterprise; Windows Vista Enterprise 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Ultimate; Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition; Windows XP Professional Edition ; Windows XP Professional x64 Edition ; Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
• An x64-based or an x86-based computer with a 400 MHz or faster (1 GHz recommended) processor with L2 cache
• Processor: AMD Athlon/Duron, Intel Celeron, Intel Pentium II, Intel Pentium III, Intel Pentium 4, Intel Core Duo, and Intel Core2 Duo
• RAM: Add the RAM requirement for the host operating system that you will be using to the requirement for the guest operating system that you will be using. If you will be using multiple guest operating systems simultaneously, total the requirements for all the guest operating systems that you need to run simultaneously.
• Available disk space: To determine the hard disk space required, add the requirement for each guest operating system that will be installed.

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News source: Microsoft

WSUS 3.0 Release Candidate Beta Now Available

The Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 Release Candidate Public Beta Program is open. Registered WSUS 3.0 beta participants will be able to download the Release Candidate beta build from the download page. Give us your feedback via the public beta newsgroups, or the feedback page of this site. Experience peer and product team support via the WSUS 3.0 RC public newsgroups (see the newsgroup link for access instructions).

WSUS 3.0 is the next generation of WSUS with new feature and design investments dedicated to making deployment and update management simple yet powerful. Key areas and features investments in the new WSUS 3.0 include:

Straightforward Installment

· In place upgrade over 2.0

· New configuration wizard to guide setup and configuration Improved Administrative Experience

· New MMC based powerful UI (can also be installed as a remote console on clients (e.g. XP) & host multiple WSUS servers in one console

· Custom views and results filtering

· Report Viewer only admin group

· Integrated “in-context” reporting

· Clean up wizard for management of stale clients/content & built in email notifications

· Reporting rollup support

· Multiple, granular auto-approval rule options

· Enhanced Target group concepts including hierarchies for approval inheritance or block, and overlapping target group membership support

Flexible Deployment Options to improve Branch Office support

· Support for language sub-setting on downstream replica servers

· Independent replica content source options (MU or Upstream Server)

· Optional Peer-cashing capability

· Synchronization up to every hour (vs. 1xday)

Performance Enhancements and Operational Reliability

· 50% improvement in reporting performance – report viewers only admin group

· Native support for x64 platform

· Network Load Balancing & SQL cluster support

· MOM management Pack for proactive alerts on server health

More Content Access and On-demand client synch:

· Easy access to drivers and hot fixes

· Personalization to make the MU Catalog customized to your downloading needs

· Client ‘synch me now’ quick check-in/download support of pending approved updates from WSUS or needed updates from Microsoft Update

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News Source: connect.microsoft.com

Lots of Virtual Earth New Birds Eye coverage in Europe

Over the last few days we've published over 100 new cities of Birds Eye Coverage. The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and Spain received the most new coverage while all of you in Drammen Norway will be pleased to know your city is covered as well. A full list of the new European Cities is below.

Here's a nice shot of the Monte Carlo Casino.

For a complete list of cities see source

News Source: virtualearth.spaces.live.com

Microsoft Phonetic Input Tool Release Candidate 1

Microsoft Phonetic Input Tool provides an intuitive method that allows users to type English letters that are mapped to a phonetic scheme using a QWERTY keyboard, and then converts these English letters into complex script languages and various encoding formats. It is very useful for bilingual and multilingual users who normally use a QWERTY keyboard and would like to type English letters to compose messages or documents in their native Indic language. Users who speak but do not write a language can use the phonetic schemes to write in that language.

download- http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/5/7/65788b59-bd6d-46f2-a11c-9bfd69d8db9c/MSPhi.msi

WLMDesktop Beta Updates available through Microsoft Update

Up to this point, the Windows Live Mail Desktop team could only inform users of new builds via email invites, blog entries and newsgroup posts. Starting from today's Build 1226, any new builds will also be available through Microsoft Update. You can update with Automatic Updates, or alternatively, you can use the “Check for Updates” option in the Help menu – it should take you to Microsoft Update (if you're on Vista, enable Microsoft Update on the Windows Update Client). Still unable to get the update? Be patient, the update will be available “in the next couple days” and you'll also be able to grab it from ideas.live.com. This release is nothing major; it is mainly bug fixes and small improvements. It is not a mandatory one but the one available in the next couple weeks will be. The only known issue is losing the program shortcut when upgrading through Microsoft Update. The team emphasizes, however, that the software is still in beta and urges its testers to hunt down bugs.

News source: Windows Live Mail Desktop Blog

Microsoft Experience Pack for Windows Vista

Here are four programs that provide unique functionality and fun to enhance your experience using a Tablet PC. And don’t forget Microsoft Ink Desktop, which is available separately for download.

Media Transfer
Copy or stream media files from your home computer to your Tablet PC, so that you can enjoy your favorite music, videos, or pictures wherever you go.

Ink Crossword
Solve crosswords on your Tablet PC using your tablet pen. Twelve puzzles come with Ink Crossword. You can also download a free daily puzzle and purchase more puzzle packs online.

Equation Writer
Easily add mathematical expressions to your papers. Handwrite a math equation, and then convert it into a neatly typewritten image to paste into a report or a presentation.

Ink Flash Cards
Create flash cards to help you learn facts or study for an exam. Handwrite a question on the front of a card and put an answer on the back. Draw, insert graphics, and add text, too.


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Microsoft Phonetic Input Tool (Beta)

The Microsoft Phonetic Input Tool (Beta) provides an intuitive method that allows users to type English letters that are mapped to a phonetic scheme using a QWERTY keyboard, and then converts these English letters into complex script languages and various encoding formats. The Microsoft Phonetic Input Tool (Beta) is very useful for bilingual and multilingual users who normally use a QWERTY keyboard and would like to type English letters to compose messages or documents in their native Indic language. Users who speak but do not write a language can use the phonetic schemes to write in that language. The Microsoft Phonetic Input Tool (Beta) supports the following 11 Indic languages in this release.

• Bengali
• Gujarati
• Hindi
• Kannada
• Konkani
• Malayalam
• Marathi
• Punjabi
• Sanskrit
• Tamil
• Telugu

The following features make the Microsoft Phonetic Input Tool (Beta) easy to use:

• The Microsoft Phonetic Input Tool (Beta) utilizes a QWERTY keyboard--no special hardware is required
• Languages can be easily selected from the standard Windows Language bar

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Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007 - for Free!

Office Accounting Express 2007 is the ideal accounting solution for new or existing home office–based small businesses. Office Accounting Express 2007 helps small business owners and bookkeepers save time on everyday tasks, work the way they want, and grow their business through online sales, online invoicing, and payment processes. And Office Accounting Express 2007 comes with the familiar look and feel of the Microsoft Office system.

System Requirements

• Supported Operating Systems: Windows Vista; Windows XP
• The following is also required: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

In addition to the requirements listed, the following should be noted:

• Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager Update or higher is required to share financial data with the Microsoft Outlook messaging and collaboration client.*
• Microsoft Office Accounting Professional 2007 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager.
  Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 or higher is required to export to Microsoft Office Excel as well as create, email, or print customized invoices, sales orders, quotes, customer credit memos, customer statements, and purchase orders using Microsoft Office Word.
• * Third party services, including Credit Card Processing, ADP payroll, eBay Online Sales, Equifax Credit reporting services, Office Live services are available for additional fees.

Download: Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007
News source: Microsoft

NASA World Wind 1.4.0 Final

World Wind, an open source 3D interactive world viewer, was created by NASA's Learning Technologies project, and released in mid-2004. It is now developed by NASA staff and open source community developers.World Wind allows any user to zoom from outer space into any place on Earth. World Wind uses satellite imagery and elevation data to allow users to experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if they were really there. Virtually visit anyplace in the world. Look across the Andes, into the Grand Canyon, over the Alps or along the African Sahara.

World Wind offers the following built-in features:

* Earth - The planet we live on.
* Moon - Usually the brightest object in the night sky.
* Venus and Mars - Our inner and outer neighbours in solar system - the "morning/evening star" and the "red planet".
* Jupiter - The king of solar system planets.
* SDSS - Nothing less than the universe - the sky with stars and galaxies.

NOTE: World Wind 1.4 requires .NET 2.0 and DirectX December 2006

Download: NASA World Wind 1.4.0 Final
Link: Releases Notes
Link: World Wind Home Page