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Office Live Workspace Beta – Now Publicly Available Worldwide

Last week I reported about Office Live Workspace’s first feature update, now, just a few days later, everybody can get instant access to this service! It is now available, in English, Worldwide:

REDMOND, Wash. — March 3, 2008

Office Live Workspace – first feature update goes live

Office Live Workspace launched last December and just got its first update, what’s new:

  • A new Activity pane to help you keep track of what’s happening in your workspaces and email notifications so you always know when the people

Windows Mobile Developer Center Renewed

The Windows Mobile Developer Center has been renewed. First of all you’ll notice there are 4 big boxes delivering the latest articles per category:

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Beside those boxes, on the top right, you’ll find “Getting Started with Windows Mobile”. There you …

Upgrade to Windows Live Messenger 8.5 coming

New upgrade round, in two phases, coming up:

Phase 1. – For those who still aren’t using Windows Live Messenger 8.5 (Windows XP and Vista, optional upgrade): 

First, everyone running Windows XP or Windows Vista will get a prompt

Earth? No, the Sky is the limit?!

We can already look at Earth with Virtual Earth, but what about the Sky? Microsoft doesn’t have anything for that yet. Yes, that’s right, YET! This might change on February 27th at the TED Conference in Monterey California:

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Microsoft DreamSpark – Free software development tools for students

On Live in Europe, Brian Groth reported students can get free software development tools:

Over on Channel 8, the video blog for students, Bill Gates just announced free software for students in a program called DreamSpark.

 

Microsoft, Yahoo!, the merger and Google – Online Video

First let’s take a look at some comScore statistics on this one:

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Google Video Sites:
Google Video
YouTube

Yahoo! Video Sites:
Yahoo! Video
Yahoo! Live

Microsoft Video Site(s):
MSN Video (includes Soapbox)

Note: YouTube.com accounted for more than 97 percent

Attention all students! Imagine Cup Software Design Windows Live Award

Windows Live Messenger Translation Bot

Over at meraTechPort, Vasudev reports the launch of the Windows Live Messenger Translation Bot:

Microsoft Research Machine Translation team has come out with an IM Translation Bot. MTBot prototype project which made it possible to combine machine translation technology

Crawler Improvements for Live Search Announced

 Live Search Webmaster Center Blog announced the following updates:

Today we’re pleased to announce several improvements in the crawler for Live Search that should significantly improve the efficiency with which we crawl and index your web sites. We are