New XBOX 360 coming this fall

Some call it SLim & some are crazy about the new kinect motion tracking peripheral that is a part of the bundle with all new XBOX 360 from Microsoft that seems to hit the market this fall. As revealed with a internmal market survey its been said : “part of a bundle with the newly designed Xbox 360 console” but Microsoft quickly adds that “we have no additional details about pricing or retail strategy to share at this time.” Meanwhile, GameStop is stating that an Elite bundle will be selling for 399 dollars, while an Arcade one will cost 299.”

Its being speculated that XBOX 360 Slim might be priced very competitively at $199 onwards. This console will feature a 250 Gigabyte of Hard disk space and an internal WiFi Card. HDMI output will also be a option.

Kinect, formerly known as Natal, ables the players to control the games they play without any physical controller, but using a camera and software. Microsoft has setup a launch date of Nov. 4 for North America Region. For rest of the world and about pricing information you have to wait will August.

Source|Original Story| Softpedia | TCN Writeup| Shantanu

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June 22, 2010 · Filed Under Hardware, Microsoft

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Try Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft Office 2010, the latest release of Office is now available to be purchased worldwide. Office 2010 has got improved user interface and lot new features. This release of Office was RTMd about two months back and it was shelved in stores on June 15th 2010. The popularity of Windows is a well-known factor to everyone, Office 2010 not being too far behind recorded over nine million downloads as beta in November of 2009 that crossed over the Beta download mark for Windows 7 that was 8 million.

So what is so special in this version of Office?

Microsoft in itself is a certificate that the product you are buying is worth the price. Office 2010 when compared to anything else in its league has got a lot of Pros. So what is that special? , Office 2010 has got the most pleasant NUI or Natural user Interface, This interface is so streamlined that it sooths the eye and gives the user what is needed. The Most talked about Ribbon Interface which has been inherited from Office 2007 has been greatly worked upon and has been made easier to work on. Office 2010 gives its user the control and editablity of how things should work; the whole interface is adjustable according to the user need.

In today’s computing needs, every application makes you think if your PC can handle it, with Office 2010 you will have to think less, as it need a very polite configuration to run on. A minimum of 500 MHz processor and a recommended 512mb ram with just 3 GB of disk space is needed to this amazing suite.

Your Office is where you are. Office Web apps is another thing greatly talked about. It gives you complete control on where and how you want to use your file. The user should have a Windows Live ID and you will get all your files where you need them through SkyDrive.

Office Mobile is yet another fantastic experience. Word mobile, Excel Mobile, PowerPoint Mobile, Onenote Mobile, Sharepoint workspace Mobile and Outlook Mobile all into one. Office Mobile will however be available with a lot of device as a pre-installed application.

All this and you still think whether you should get Office 2010 or not. Oh wait.. Did i tell you now you can use this full-fledged Office 2010 suite for 60 day? Yes, you can. Microsoft is offering a 60 days trail (with all features) to everyone. So go ahead and download Office 2010 today.

Word 2010 comes with enhanced photo-editing capabilities, while PowerPoint now offers video and broadcast features, and Excel contains Sparklines, a new feature that enhances the way users visualize data. And there is more, for example OpenType typography in Word 2010 and in Publisher 2010, the new Paste with Live Preview feature, the improved Navigation Pane in Word, the enhanced Conversation View in Outlook 2010, etc.

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June 20, 2010 · Filed Under Microsoft

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Windows Phone 7 feature Video

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June 20, 2010 · Filed Under Microsoft

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Microsoft Surface Apps connects to Mobile Devices- via bluetooth

Just watch this video to have a fair idea of what this new resource is, which has been made available by Microsoft, this free resource gives a workability to developers to build on top of Microsoft surface, so that to connect their application to bluetooth enabled devices. This can be downloaded from the MSDN code gallery ( http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/surfacebluetooth )

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June 19, 2010 · Filed Under Microsoft

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WordPress 3.0

WordPress 3.0 is not available for general public to download and install, those are running their blogs on wordpress and using the automatic upgrade plugin, should already be seeing the Upgrade to 3.0 banner. WordPress 3.0 is beleived to be feature packed and to come with a lot of bug fixes and enhancements. The only thing that concerns me is the spam comments, Even after using Akismet, the previous release gave a lot of Spam comments.

This release of wordpress offers are new default theme, twenty-ten, custom post types , the merger with wordpress multi-user and menu management. WordPress 3.0 is beleived to be a major release as it has fixed over 1200 bugs and given a lot of updates. The dashboard is polished and user will feel a greater experience blogging. I hope to enjoy that. Going right to upgrade now.

To download the wordpress setup and the famous five minutes install : visit http://wordpress.org

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June 18, 2010 · Filed Under Other

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