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Microsoft has made Office Accounting 2007 available for FREE download. this would allow accountants to work on accounting for FREE. from the official site: "This application is tailored to the millions of home-based, sole proprietor and small businesses that currently use pen and paper or spreadsheets like Excel to do their accounting." More details are available at: http://www.sbaisbetter.com/overview.html

Windows Live initiative has added another service to its boque called the Live Barcode. More details about the service is located at: https://barcode.ideas.live.com/ The idea here is to use a barcode sort of thing (QR Code) to exchange information. the live service will provide you with ability to create QR Code you can then use a decoder software to capture QR Code via a built-in camera.  I forsee a Windows Mobile application coming out soon for this :)

In a recent poll with merawindows.com , Windows Media Player got the place as the "Favourite Media Player" with 56% of the votes. A close second was WinAmp with 24% of all the votes. At that time, the current version of the Windows Media Player was 10. Microsoft has now announced the release of Windows Media Player v11. You can download the same from here . A lot of plug ins as also available at: http://www.wmplugins.com/   Technorati tags: windows media player , software , microsoft

Simply put Windows Defender is FREE anti-spyware from Microsoft. the official description reads as - "Windows Defender is a free program that helps you stay productive by protecting your computer against pop-ups, slow performance and security threats caused by spyware and other potentially unwanted software."   Defender has been in BETA for quite sometime. It has now been released as a supported product at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=435bfce7-da2b-4a6a-afa4-f7f14e605a0d&DisplayLang=en With BETA phase, the product gained huge maturity with community support (SpyNet). It is one of those elements that are quintessential to any PC installation. So, if it is not still on your PC, get it on!

The MVP Program gives out annual award to community members who have demonstrated leadership in the community. Though one can apply anytime, the awards are announced once a quarter. The ones awarded this quarter are:   Abhishek Arya Visual Developer - ASP/ASP.NET Amit Agarwal Windows - Shell/User Anand Khanse Windows - Shell/User Aneesh Retnakaran Windows Server System - SQL Server Baalendu Sharma Windows - Shell/User Mahesh Mitkari Visual Developer - Visual C# Mahesh Satyanarayana Windows - Security Praveen Nair Visual Developer - ASP/ASP.NET Rahul Nathan Windows - Networking Saurav Srivastava Windows - Shell/User Sujay Sarma Visual Developer - Visual Basic Thota Umesh Windows - Shell/User Vishal Gupta Windows - Shell/User   More information at: www.microsoft.com/india/mvp   Technorati tags: india , MVP

If you are a developer and have worked in mobile space the biggest hurdle would have been ensuring connectivity between desktop DB and the Mobile DB. Some of us used replication to get over the issue and the more daring ones used RDA or something highly customised. Microsoft has now come up with a very very cool alternative called the Access Database Synchronizer (ADS) that would synchronize the data from your Access database to the Mobile SQL DB via Active Sync. In official terms: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition Access Database Synchronizer provides a way to synchronize data between Microsoft Access database on a desktop and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition database on a device. The setup installs the desktop component required for synchronizing Microsoft Access database with SQL Server Everywhere Edition database on the device. It also includes a read me file which has the documentation for the solution and a sample application. The sample application ...

The September Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Cider is now available! The September CTP of Cider is being released as part of the September CTP for Visual Studio Code Name 'Orcas' – Development Tools for .Net Framework 3.0. This toolset includes both Fidalgo and Cider. There are no any new features in this CTP. It is merely a refresh of August CTP bits to make them compatible with the new .Net Framework September CTP. The Cider feature set is identical to the feature set released in August. (For more info on the features available in August CTP, see August CTP Release Notes .) Full release notes and installation information for the September CTP are available on external Cider Wiki . But the basic install instructions are: 1. Visual Studio 2005 RTM 2. .Net Framework 3.0 September CTP 3. Visual Studio Code Name ‘Orcas’ for NetFX 3.0 Sept. CTP Category: microsoft , Visual Studio ------------------------------------------------------------------------...