Archive for December, 2007
Windows Server 2008 RC2 Confirmed?
A few days ago I was reading an article over at the Realtime Windows Server Community (noticed it via ActiveWin) where they were wondering whether Microsoft would release an RC2 build of Server 2008 prior to RTM. Well, thanks to the new Windows Server 2008 RC1 with Hyper-V Beta which is available publicly here, Microsoft may have inadvertently already answered that exact question. Since the Server 2008 build included with the Hyper-V Beta is a newer compile (6001.17119) than the originally released Server 2008 RC1 (6001.17051), Microsoft have included an updated EULA which directly mentions RC2: 
Of course this doesn’t guarantee that Microsoft will definitely release an RC2 build however it probably is a pretty good indication of things to come.
News Source: WinBeta
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Google Announces Launch of Google Toolbar 5
Today google announced the latest version of Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer. The beta version is now available in US-English at http://toolbar.google.com/T5. Google Toolbar makes browsing the Internet simpler and more efficient with integrated Google search and other web tools. This release is about improving the way the millions of Toolbar users can engage with content on the web and personalize the browser experience.
Google Toolbar now lets you:
- Add Google Gadgets
- Fill in forms with a single click
- Access your Toolbar from any computer
- Clip and collect content as you browse
- Get suggestions for broken links
More info can be found here
The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 1 (SP1) available for download!!!
Office 2007 Service Pack 1 is now available for download. It’s the real deal, not a beta, so grab it while it’s hot.
The 218MB Service Pack can be downloaded from this site today. It will reportedly appear as part of the regular Windows Update system in a few months.
The 2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 1 delivers important customer-requested stability and performance improvements, while incorporating further enhancements to user security. This service pack also includes all of the updates released for the 2007 Office suite prior to December of 2007.
Service Pack 1 will install even if a publicly available update has already been installed on your computer.
SP1 also includes stability improvements developed as a result of user input from the Microsoft Online Crash Analysis and from Microsoft Product Support feedback.
This update applies to the following programs:
* Microsoft® Office Basic 2007
* Microsoft® Office Enterprise 2007
* Microsoft® Office Home and Student 2007
* Microsoft® Office Professional 2007
* Microsoft® Office Professional Plus 2007
* Microsoft® Office Small Business 2007
* Microsoft® Office Small Business Management 2007
* Microsoft® Office Standard 2007
* Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007
* Microsoft® Office Access® 2007
* Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007
* Microsoft® Office FrontPage® 2007
* Microsoft® Office InfoPath® 2007
* Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007
* Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007
* Microsoft® Office Publisher® 2007
* Microsoft® Office Word 2007
* Microsoft® Office OneNote® 2007
* Microsoft® Office Groove® 2007
Source & Download: Microsoft Official Website
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC available for download
Finally the public version of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC is available for download.All those who were waiting to try the legal version can now download from the MS site.To download visit here
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC is available through Windows Update.Windows Vista SP1 RC distributed through Windows Update will be applicable to Windows Vista machines that are running on any of the 36 languages supported by Vista RTM.
If you already installed the Service Pack to your machine by using the standalone package, you must uninstall before you scan Windows Update for Windows Vista SP1. Systems running on Windows Vista RTM require as many as three updates before SP1 can be installed. These updates are permanent to your Windows Vista systems. Windows Update will detect your system configuration and offer the prerequisite packages that are applicable to your system.
New Google webapp comes to iPhone and iPod touch
Google has just released an integrated web application for iPhone and iPod touch. It offers you access to Google search, gmail, calendar, and reader applications in a single, convenient place. A recent Staff Pick, it’s one of the more than 450 news, games, weather, sports, and other web-based applications for iPhone and iPod touch you’ll find on Apple’s web apps page. Like information about designing, coding, optimizing, and submitting your own web application? Then visit Apple’s iPhone Dev Center.
Here is what the Apple site reads-
About Google Search
Get the answer you’re looking for – fast. Anything from flight updates and sports results, images and weather reports to web and mobile web pages is just a click away. We’ll also make sure that pages are formatted appropriately for your iPhone.
Local listings at your fingertips. Search and locate everything from restaurants to a local dry cleaner. Google will suggest businesses in your area and remember where you are. So the next time you search, you’ll get to the listings you’re looking for faster and easier.
What’s New in this Version
- The new Google experience is integrated to make it quick and easy for you to find, use and switch between Google’s mobile applications including Search, Gmail, Calendar, Reader and more.
Source- Apple Hot news
Yahoo! Messenger for Vista™ released
Yahoo today released the preview version of Yahoo! Messenger for Vista, the first Yahoo! Messenger built from the ground up for the Windows Vista operating system. This is your chance to try it out .
This is a preview version only (pre-beta) so not everything is in here that you might be used to seeing in other versions of Yahoo! Messenger. Here’s a list of the features included today:
- Entirely new interface that harnesses the power of WPF, the graphics subsystem in Windows Vista
- Organize your conversations into tabs, or drag and drop a tab out to create a new window
- Keep up with your favorite contacts by dragging them into the Windows Sidebar gadget
- Send enhanced emoticons that have some extra oomph
- Change the color of your IM windows with a built-in skin chooser. Go crazy with a different skin for every IM window!
- Adjust the display size of your contacts with a handy slider
- Arrange your contact list into multiple columns just by resizing your window
- Send instant messages to your Yahoo! and Windows Live Messenger contacts
- Send files to friends as large as 2 GB
- Find contacts quickly with the contact search bar. Type in a few letters of the contact’s name or ID and they’ll come up in filtered results.
- As-you-type spell checker that’s smart enough to know that “LOL” is not something to correct
- A preferences menu you can access by right-clicking anywhere at the top of the main Messenger window
What are you waiting for? Download it now!
Windows Vista SP1 Release Candidate (RC) to Public next week
According to the Windows Vista Blog the Windows Vista SP1 Release candidate will be available to public next week, so all those who are eager to get it just have to wait for one more week and we will update as soon as it will be available.
Here is what the Windows Vista Blog reads
Today we’re making available the release candidate (RC) of Windows Vista SP1 via Microsoft Connect, and tomorrow subscribers to TechNet and MDSN will have access to those RC bits too. In addition, the RC will be available to the public next week via Microsoft’s Download Center. The release candidate phase of beta software is typically the final phase before the RTM (release-to-manufacturing) of a product and indicates that the code has attained a significant level of performance and stability.
Let me call out several changes made since the Beta release of Service Pack 1 — many of which came about as a result of direct feedback from our Beta-testing community (thank you!):
The size of the standalone installers have decreased significantly. For example, the standalone installer packages consisting of all 36 languages (x86 and x64 chip architectures) are smaller by over 50%. The standalone installer packages consisting of just the 5 languages (again, x86 and x64) slated for initial release are more than 30% smaller in size.
The required amount of disc space for SP1 installation has also decreased significantly. Furthermore, with the RC, if more space is required to install SP1, an error message will now display exactly how much space is needed to complete the installation.
Previous SP1 versions left behind a directory of files that wasn’t needed after installation and occupied about 1GB of space; the RC includes automatic disk clean-up to remove this directory.
Installation reliability has been improved based on bug reports and error codes reported from Windows Update (thanks, Beta testers!). Testing shows that these improvements have significantly increased the proportion of successful installations of the RC.
We’ve improved the user experience of installing SP1 via Windows Update. During the Beta release, users installed without much guidance from Windows Update. The RC now contains a series of screens with detailed information on SP1.
Source : WindowsVistaBlog
