Street Level - MS Virtual Earth

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have you imagine that you can walk in the street through your Computer Screen, Well if this was a dream Microsoft Make it True.. Just imagine that Microsoft Virtual Earth Team announce two months ago the awesome street level technology , Now you can drive your car through the streets see the left, right and the front view as Reality. I was watching Channel 9 and I couldn't believe my eyes that this is true. They captured million of images to make this true and Ajax help the community to do an amazing feature like this. Try it your self dude and say Wooohoooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

http://preview.local.live.com/

local coupons via RSS

check this out: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/04/12/local-coupons-at-zixxo/

Microsoft writes a law for Oklahoma giving it the right to inspect your hard drive !!!

What the hell is that :- !! ,

check this out: http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=4963

is that true Microsoft ??!! or this is peace of crap ..

60% of IM users prefer MSN Messenger

quoted: http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/4/11/3557

What client do you use for instant messaging? According to a recent study by comScore Networks, there's a decent chance that it's MSN Messenger, which lassoed in 61 percent of worldwide instant messaging (IM) market share.

Besides determining the leading IM client, the survey also returned a hodgepodge of other interesting results. For instance, Europe has more people (82 million) using IM than the United States (69 million) does, which amounts to 49 percent and 37 percent of web users in the respective locations. In the United States, MSN Messenger usage is about even with AOL Instant Messenger usage while Yahoo's IM client only trails by a few notches. One other interesting point mentioned in the survey: 14 percent of all instant messengers use Skype, but that only amounts to 3 percent of IM users in the United States.

comScore based its survey on roughly 2 million consumers who gave the company permission to track their online habits. Companies which use comScore's services consist of AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Verizon, Best Buy, The Newspaper Association of America, Tribune Interactive, ESPN, Fox Sports, Nestlé, MBNA, Universal McCann, the United States Postal Service, and Merck and Orbitz

Helath problems related to the geek lifestyle :)

i duno if this is a right place to post this article but it may be useful for some of us ;)

Check this out: http://www.carotids.com/lifestyle/health-problems-related-to-the-geek-lifestyle/

are they facts guys or just peace of philosophy?!! .. My self yes i feel some headache in the mid of night but am sure that geeks has faster response than any one could imagine + they think logically in their life-line, but what am sure is when they will get divorced all what they will do is to call the garbage collection as to redim another girl again :D, just joking.

The next generation of Microsoft application building and Web authoring tools

check this out: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA101205221033.aspx

"What happened to FrontPage?

After nine years of being an award-winning Web authoring tool, FrontPage will be discontinued in late 2006. We will continue to serve the diverse needs of our existing FrontPage customers with the introduction of these three brand-new application building and Web authoring tools using the latest technologies, Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Designer 2007 for the enterprise information workers, Microsoft® Expression™ Web Designer for the professional Web designer and Microsoft® Visual Studio 2005 for the Web developer.""

Microsoft have announced the file formats for Office 2007

Microsoft have announced the file formats for Office 2007, the next version of Microsoft Office which is due to be released in early 2007. The most notable change is the obvious visual change in file names. No longer based around 3 characters (e.g. .doc), they are now 4 letters long.

Word = .docx
Excel = .xlsx
Powerpoint = .pptx

The naming change reflects the new xml technology being used by the files. We can but help think it reflects a desperate need to show that things have changed with Office 2007. But we're probably wrong.

The files will allow backwards compatibility with older versions of Office. Office will also support natively a save as PDF feature, and saving files as XPS. XPS is a file format that allows for advanced digital rights. The Office 2007 is still be trialed in beta, which you can get online.

Google v. Microsoft: New Search Interfaces

^{Posted by Michael Arrington http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/28/google-v-microsoft-new-search-interfaces/}

Google and Microsoft both have new search interfaces in beta.

Google is testing a new “green bars” interface to the left of search results, allowing easy linking to search results for the web, images, groups, froogle and local. The green bar is an indication of what appears to be a result count.

Microsoft, through Live.com, is beta testing a new search interface that includes RSS feeds for each search, a much different image search (lots of results thumbnailed) and an “infinite scroll bar” that continues to refresh as you scroll down through results.

Live.com is usable by anyone who visits the site; the new Google search is available only to random users. However, Google Blogoscoped (as well as Digg and Download Squad) have instructions that show how anyone can see the new Google results. Based on this, I’ve had a chance to test Google’s new search interface as well.

In my opinion, both are lacking but for very different reasons. After testing each, Google’s new interface doesn’t seem to actually do much of anything, and Live.com, while inspired, is very poor in actual performance, mostly speed.

Google first. The quick links have been moved from the top of search to the left sidebar. The green bars do communicate total results information, but that’s it. For the majority of searches, the number of results is not important to deciding whether or not to click on the link. All in all, this is a feature that didn’t need to be released outside of internal testing before being scrapped or quietly incorporated. Furthermore, it makes no sense that Google would not incorporate blog search results into the sidebar along with froogle, images, news, etc.

Live.com is a different matter. The image search is excellent in that a very large number of results appear on the screen at one time. There are also more search results than on MSN search, and each search has a RSS feeds that can be added to your Live.com home page with a single click. Finally, the infinite scroll bar is a great way to save clicks to further results pages for deeper searches. But, Live.com has unacceptably slow loading times for searches, and the infinite scroll bar is extremely slow as well. So slow it is effectively unusable.

All in all, Live.com’s effort is much more creative and head turning than what Google seems to be testing. Others might argue, of course, that Google’s clean interface has served them (and us) very well over the years and needs little, if any, tweaks at this time. As Live.com becomes more responsive and faster, it will be interesting to see if people drift away from Google Search and over to Live.com. Either way, Microsoft finds itself in a difficult position - Google controls over 40% of the U.S. search market v. about 15% for Microsoft.

MS Virtual Server 2005 R2 for free!!

Microsoft is providing MS Virtual Server 2005 R2 for free, if you have never used Virtual Server now i think you should do, just imagine how could you play with your windows screen online using Microsoft Virtual Machine Activex Control nevertheless create your own machines and customize them as your demand. When we lack to use Virtual Server is in testing issues even i development and linking different servers together on the same local machine. My first experience with virtual machines were in Mac and it impressive to run different os during the runtime of another os but now with Microsoft Virtual Server you have reliable product that support more than 600 different OS. Wooho!

Link: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/default.mspx

WPF/E

"So what is WPF/E? It is a cross-platform, cross-browser web technology that supports a subset of WPF XAML. WPF/E also has a friction-free install model and the download size we’re targeting is very small. WPF/E supports programmability through javascript for tight browser integration. The WPF/E package also contains a small, cross platform subset of the CLR and .NET Framework that can run C# or VB.NET code. Yes, we are bringing C# programming to the Mac."

The big news in Mix 2006 that this feature will be shipped in summer and it will release in the first half of 2007 to allows web designers to write an amazing UI using XAML. i can't wait till it's over guys!

Those are some samples taken from Mikes' Harsh Blog:

Clock: http://static.flickr.com/35/116850753_ddda342668_m.jpg

WPF/E pan and zoom: http://static.flickr.com/37/116850754_f9628b295d_m.jpg

source article link: http://blogs.msdn.com/mharsh/archive/2006/03/23/559106.aspx

AJAX

Check out http://www.start.com/ and See How AJAX-style is Booming J

My Graduate Project

Today iam gonna start building my graduate project after it took a long time for analysis, Requiremnets and design. When it will be ready ?? Actually still not sure that it will take a month but i have to work as fast as i can cause am participated within Imagin Cup Contest neither. Tools inside my project are: SqlServer 2005 + Web services + Mobile Application + ASP.net 2.0 + SSRS 2005 . Hopefully iam gonna follow the standards for building effieceient realiable solid application. My Project Codename now is "Hayat".

Wish me the good luck please :)

Microsoft to unveil console-cum-tablet-cum-sat-nav

Microsoft looks set to reveal a new gadget next month, currently known under the name of 'Project Origami'.

A video purporting to show the gizmo – a cross between a Nokia 770 and an iPod, according to the mutterings on the gadget grapevine - was reportedly discovered on the website of DigitalKitchen, a marketing agency whose clients include Microsoft.

The device, which resembles a small tablet PC, is used as a mini Media Center in the clip, with individuals using the device to surf the web as well as a games console and satellite navigation device.

The device is also shown devoid of integrated keyboard, with users in the video entering information via a stylus or with a detachable keyboard.

A Microsoft spokeswoman confirmed that the device was genuine but said it was not a current version of the product. "While Origami is a concept we've been working on with partners, please know that the video seen on Digital Kitchen’s web site is a year old and represents our initial exploration into this form factor, including possible uses and scenarios," she said.

Microsoft said it will reveal more about Project Origami in the coming weeks. The software giant already has a website seemingly devoted to it at origamiproject.com which promises Windows watchers can "learn more" on 2 March.

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I Love LIVE SERVICES!!

Download the new Windows Live Messenger (BETA). It Rocks!!

http://www.comicbox.net/download/Install_Messenger_Beta_562_EN.exe

Note: You have to be invited from Microsoft Live team in order to use Live Messenger Products. check http://ideas.live.com

EDC 2006

Tomorrow East Med Developers Conference will fire, My Friend Bandar will present 4 sessions (last count) also Eyad Ghoshi and Dawsar will present amazing Technologies. The Conference will take the handle to deliver technical sessions talking about MS SQL Server 2005, MS VS 2005, and MS BizTalk 2006. So, it's amazing 3 days to attend. I Just need to be close to the IT-Professionals I need to see how they are acting. Am looking forward to present one day in such amazing event like EDC as Bandar did. He has been chosen due to his activity and qualifications to do it. I've been invited to attend a close VIP sessions which makes me proud of my self. Through this event hopefully am gonna take some experience fly to achieve something in the near future.

Http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/edc

Muslims vs Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) Cartoons

Since no one knows how suppose Prophet Mohammed Looks like then Muslims avoid drawing pictures for him to be away from deformation. Qura'an didn't says frankly that it's banned but Muslims respect there prophet place in their hearts as they respect all the previous prophets neither. I was like you wondering why Muslims protest against the cartoons but after i read some articles about how that prophet was, now i think the cartoons were so unjust and it hurts other feelings.

Muslims weren't one day looking for killing or tourism as most of the god damn western media says and iam one of them and they are so kind and lovely dude, Look out what Christianity and Jewish did for them in Afghanistan, Palestine, Spain or Iraq and then you will notice obviously how revenge they are keeping inside regarding what massacres been made, above all that they love Jesus but not as a sun of God but as a prophet means that they believe in him cause that's what Qura'an impose as a duty to believe in all the prophets who propagandize to believe in One God no else.

I Think Media keep hiding the fact that they are who teach modern world the peace from centuries when others were killing there women and children and in the opposite they were treating others' soldiers, protecting women children and old men when Jehad happened.

Take some time to learn about them from a lot of webs and below some:

www.islam-online.net

www.islamtoday.com

Don't judges tell you read and see the fact in eyes of reality not eyes of others.

Microsoft set to launch ID management across multiple sites

Quoted: http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?NewsID=5377&inkc=0 By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG news service

Microsoft plans to allow users to manage their passwords and indentites across multiple websites. The company is set to include technology in both Windows XP and in the forthcoming Vista.

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates discussed Microsoft's plans for the technology, code-named InfoCard, during a keynote at the RSA Conference 2006 in San Jose, California. The technology acts as a "wallet" where users can store the identity and password information for how they would like to be identified on various websites, said Michael Stephenson, Microsoft's director of product management for identity and access.

Using InfoCard will eliminate the need for users to remember multiple identities and passwords for websites with which they do business, he said. It also will help them manage what information is provided across those sites.

Companies have been trying to solve the problem of managing authentication and identities across multiple websites as e-commerce, online banking and other online business has become increasingly pervasive.

Microsoft users will see InfoCard in the control panels of Windows Vista and also in Windows XP, as well as in Internet Explorer 7, which the company plans to offer for both versions of the OS.

InfoCard also must be supported on a website in order for a Windows user to take advantage of it, Stephenson said. Microsoft plans to include the technology as a part of WinFX, the programming model for Windows Vista, so developers can use the technology in Web-site development, he said.

Additionally, Microsoft Tuesday released a developer resource kit for InfoCard that can be used in conjunction with the test preview of Windows Vista that was released in September.

Hundreds of cyber attacks against Danish and western webservers

List of the Danish websites that been hacked due to spiteful pictures about Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him) that been published within the Denmark newspapers last month under allegation (Freedom of Writing).

http://www.zone-h.org/en/news/read/id=205987/

Live Mail Beta!

bscFinally am a hotmail VIP member. So I've got the response to join the Live Mail beta experience. At first blush It's amazing (Faster, Solid, And Wonderful). It looks like the outlook interface. I like the caching mechanism and also I liked the right click context menu also the keyboard shortcuts but am sure a lot of features still hidden. I Think Live Mail (codename Kahuna) Team should include these features which will shine the new web mail service.

1- Spelling Tool.

2- Using Attached Pictures within the editor.

3- Ability to draw Tables within the Editor.

4- Ability to get feeds from the outlook calendar.

5- Ability to import Windows Address Book Contacts Outlook contacts.

6- Open the mail in the new Window.

7- From your Mail to your Space.

Syria Trip

I went to Syria and spent there 4 days. It was an amazing trip, actually my feedback wasn't regarding tourism places but it was about the first impression i got when I went there, an old school friends were waiting me and a big big damn hug did there. Syria is distinguished by its local market which basically depends on the local products. Which means that Syria does not care for the western threat in cutting the Global Relations. I liked the sweets out there, i went to a street called Al-Medan believe me it's one of the lovely sweety streets ever seen, contains more than 30 sweet shop with different Kinds - Knafi, Mlapas, etc. I've stayed in my friend's home "MuhieAlddien" he was so kind and generous also so funny dude :D. I've visited a Software Shop called Dark Side, this shop is amazing specially that all the cd's are copied and hacked by the same person :D. I found MS Visual Studio 2005 Pro. DVD only in 100 Lera which is approx. equal to 1.86 Dolar :D. My God what bill gonna do if he knows that :D. Meals out there is delicious more by 1000,000 times than Jordan and also so cheap compared with high rates in Jordan. Girls are pretty in Halab, they are white as the snow, Sobhan Allah. It was a wonderful trip since I've missed guys out there. Hopefully I will did it again soon. Btw Syria has approved for the KFC to open two months ago and it considered as the first foreign Restaurant in the whole country. The Rest. is kind of empty since less people buy from there, Local products much delicious, attractive and cheap. Simply even if it's not that modern country but i enjoyed staying there a lot! :)