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Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live Messenger Interoperability

July 13, 2006

Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corporation announced yesterday that they have made their instant messaging networks interoperable. Currently it is available for limited public test. Now you can send and receive instant messages between Windows Live […]

Critical Zero-Day vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2002 – 2003

May 30, 2006

A new ‘zero-day’ vulnerability has cropped up recently in Word 2002 and Word 2003. No patch exists currently for this. This is categorized as high threat by antivirus vendors as a few viruses already started […]

Microsoft Expression Designer Preview

May 21, 2006

The first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft® Expression® Web Designer is released today. It is a professional design tool to help create modern standards-based Web sites. There are three editions of Microsoft® Expression®. Microsoft® […]

Office Live Beta and Ananthapuri.net

February 23, 2006

I registered for Microsoft Office Live beta, and started using the free basics edition. Office Live Basics beta provides company domain name, a hosted web site with 30 MB of storage and five free e-mail […]

Visual Studio Express and SQL Server 2005 Express for FREE!

November 7, 2005

Good news for Microsoft Technology enthusiasts! Microsoft now understands that they should open up their products to the developer community in order to sustain in the market. Thanks to the success of the various open […]

Windows Live & Office Live

November 1, 2005

Microsoft announced its new web-based Windows Live and Office Live. The Live is Microsoft’s answer to Web 2.0. Windows Live will be primarily ad supported and free. Office Live is the internet based services for […]

Microsoft Changes How It Builds Software

October 4, 2005

This article from Wall Street Journal talks about the changes Microsoft adapted in Windows Vista programming (earlier, code named Longhorn). Worth reading for all software engineers. Link to the article at WSJ (subscription required). A […]

Virtual Tour of the Earth from your Desktop!

September 30, 2005

Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips. It’s a globe that sits inside your PC! You can take a virtual tour […]

Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

September 21, 2005

The IE Developer Toolbar is very useful for web developers to understand and analyze webpages. It provides several features for deeply exploring and understanding Web pages. Download IE Developer Toolbar Quoted from Microsoft website — […]

STRIDE Model of Threat Categories

August 21, 2005

Microsoft uses a specific model to categorize software security threats. It is called STRIDE. The six letters in STRIDE each represent a particular risk. These are used in security bulletins to describe the nature of […]