The collaboration service codename "Tahiti", a screen sharing beta software rebranded as Microsoft SharedView from Microsoft is now available for public download . This tool can be considered as a hybrid collaborative experience that Microsoft is putting out which is a cross between Windows Meeting spaces and the web hosted MS Office Livemeeting service. This tool is targeted at the small meeting space ( maximum of 15 users) to share screen and collaborate real time. It requires you to sign in with a  Windows Live ID account to initiate MS SharedView meeting. You will still have to wait for the future releases of Microsoft SharedView to get chat/audio support. How to use MS SharedView? To start a session using this program, you ...

What is Microsoft Silverlight?Microsoft Silverlight is a media player that can run web applications on Windows and MAC in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.  It is designed to work in concert with XAML and will be scriptable with Javascript. In the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha, the support of .NET languages has been introudunced. There is no support for Linux and Opera in the current beta, but additional platforms are still in consideration. In the word of Microsoft - Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework for building and delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web and devices. Components Browser Plugin (Activex control in case of Internet ...

Google has agreed to pay $3.1 bn cash for the computer-tracking cookie provider Double Click, the biggest buyout in Google's history.  The purchase is a big blow to Microsoft which began bidding for the company in March for around $2 bn.  Microsoft has struggled to catch up to Google in the advertising market and chances are , will continue to do so after this buyout. Yahoo and Time Warner were also in race of this bidding. What is DoubleClick?New York based DoubleClick has been majority owned by a private equity firm Hellman & Friedman since 2005, when they paid around $1.1 bn for its stake.  DoubleClick helps link up advertising agencies, marketers and web publishers to put ads online, very similar to Google ...

It is just me or you guys are also seeing the same differenes. I have got two Windows Live account and I use one of them mainly for checking and testing the beta version of Windows Live Services, But the Live Ideas website display different list of Beta Services. Snapshot of the Beta services available on my normal Windows Live account Snapshot of the Beta services available on my Windows Live account which I use to check and test beta services   Technorati tags: Windows Live Ideas, Windows Live Beta Services, Microsoft Windows Live, Windows Live for TV Beta, ...

Microsoft Research has released "Deepfish" a prototype browser for Windows Mobile 5+ phones that users can sign up for and try out. What is Deepfish? Deepfish is a lightweight client application that leverages a powerful server side technology for delivery of content such as web pages to a Windows Mobile device. Content is displayed in a familiar desktop format that requires no additional work by the content or site author. Deepfish provides: * A familiar look and feel of web pages on mobile as seen on desktop. * Bandwidth optimized rendering for faster content delivery. * Address bar web navigation. * Intuitive zooming, panning and cue map for quick navigation and browsing. ...

Microsoft Corporation today announced the industry's first pay-as-you-go personal computing offerings powered by Microsoft® FlexGo(TM) technology, enabling more-flexible Microsoft Windows®-based PC purchasing options for customers in emerging markets. Customers can get a full featured Windows-enabled PC with low entry costs that they can access using prepaid cards or through a monthly subscription. How the platform worksMicrosoft FlexGo has two key components. First, there are specially-built PCs powered by Microsoft FlexGo technology that enable pay-as-you-go computing. Second, Microsoft FlexGo includes a provisioning server system that enables payment systems to add usage time to each PC with unique provisioning data.1. Metering-capable PCs ...

Microsoft, for the first time, is telling PC owners exactly what it'll take for them to run its forthcoming Windows Vista OS. As expected, the software giant on May 18 unveiled its Windows Vista Get Ready Web site, along with a set of minimum PC hardware guidelines for Vista Capable PCs — which call for at least an 800MHz processor, 512MB of RAM and a DirectX 9-capable graphics processor, but ask ...