Microsoft announced the release of Windows MultiPoint Server 2010. Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 allows multiple users to simultaneously share one computer using multiple screens. Each user individually controls his or her own station with an independent and familiar Windows computing experience. Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 is now globally available to OEMs and will be rolling out to Microsoft academic volume licensing customers on March 1. In addition, Microsoft is announcing new partnerships that create a strong global ecosystem of hardware companies that give customers a breadth of choices to buy and use Windows MultiPoint Server solutions.

Anthony Salcito, vice president of worldwide education at Microsoft Said,

We heard clearly from our customers in education that to help fulfill the amazing promise of technology in the classroom, they needed access to affordable computing that was easy to manage and use. That’s why we developed Windows MultiPoint Server — a solution that meets these needs and delivers an up-to-date, trusted Windows experience.

Bill Rust, research director at Gartner Inc Said,

Shared resource computing can multiply the number of student workstations available to schools, delivering more value while staying within the same budget. Teachers can better align computing resources with instructional strategies while deploying fewer fully configured computers and reducing workstation support liabilities.

NComputing also offer similar kind of solutions to schools and academic institutions using Linux and Windows operating system. NComputing will also incorporate MultiPoint Server across its product lineup. Hewlett-Packard, ThinGlobal, Tritton and Wyse also plan to build products based on the software.

Software vendors, such as AB Consulting, LanSchool Technologies and NetSupport Ltd., will also be developing applications that extend the Windows MultiPoint platform and provide teachers and students with access to classroom management and other education-focused technology.

Presentation Companion is a free application that can be used for controlling PowerPoint presentation from Windows Mobile. Presentation Companion also allows you to view speaker notes on your Windows phone as you control the presentation.

How to use Presentation Companion?

Download and install Presentation Companion

Operating Instructions
Do the following to control the presentation on your laptop from your Windows phone.

On the Laptop

1. Open the PowerPoint file you plan to present.
2. On the Office Ribbon Add-in tab, click Start Presentation Companion. 

On the Phone

1. Copy the PowerPoint file to the Windows® phone using e-mail, Bluetooth, or a storage card.
2. Open the PowerPoint file.
3. On the menu, tap Presentation Companion .
4. When the Bluetooth wizard opens, follow the instructions to connect to your laptop.

Download Presentation Companion

Windows7 will have a Windows XP mode, XPM is built on the next generation Microsoft Virtual PC 7 product line, which requires processor-based virtualization support (Intel and AMD) to be present and enabled on the underlying PC. To run Windows XP in Windows7, users needs a fully licensed copy of Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (SP3). It will be made available, for free, to users of Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions via a download from the Microsoft web site.

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Microsoft Windows includes an AutoRun feature, which can automatically run code when removable devices are connected to the computer.

Disable AutoRun In Windows Vista

1. Click Start Collapse this imageExpand this image,type Gpedit.msc in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER. Collapse this imageExpand this image If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type the password, or click Allow.
2. Under Computer Configuration, expand Administrative Templates, expand Windows Components, and then click Autoplay Policies.
3. In the Details pane, double-click Turn off Autoplay.
4. Click Enabled, and then select All drives in the Turn off Autoplay on box to disable Autorun on all drives.
5. Restart the computer.

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Yahoo has announced the top 10 search terms on its search engine for the year 2008. Celebrities, U.S. politics and TV shows were among the 10 most-searched terms on Yahoo for 2008. Pop star Britney Spears is No. 1 on Yahoo’s list of top 10 overall searches,just like she did last year, WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) at No. 2, and Barack Obama, president-elect of the United States secured No. 3. Singer Miley Cyrus and videogame RuneScape came in at 4th & 5th position.

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Vista Start Menu is the best replacement classical Windows XP Start Menu . Vista Start Menu enables you to access all available applications and files on your hard drive in just one or two clicks. Vista Start Menu is fully compatible with Windows Vista, Windows XP and all other modern Windows platforms. Let’s have a look some of the advantage of Vista Start Menu over other Windows Start Menu

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Microsoft released to manufacture (RTM) Windows Embedded Standard 2009, the next generation of Windows XP Embedded, on October 7^th, 2008. Windows Embedded Standard delivers the power, familiarity, and reliability of the Windows operating system in componentized form, helping device makers to easily create smart connected devices requiring rich applications, services, and end-user experiences. Featuring technologies that easily connect with many common industry standards plus several Microsoft desktop and server technologies leading to lower costs in application development, operating system deployment, servicing, and maintenance. With Windows Embedded Standard, developers get access to a mature technology portfolio of embedded specific tools that work in the familiar developer environment of Visual Studio allowing them to rapidly configure, build, and deploy devices with enhanced security reliability and manageability.

Windows Embedded Standard Toolkits will be available by end of November 2008. The evaluation version of Windows® Embedded Standard will be available for download from windows embedded website

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Amazon takes another big steps towards it’s EC2 services. Amazons is planning to include Windows Server and SQL Server to it’s EC2 cloud services. Currently Windows server on EC2 is in private beta. The big question is, Will Microsoft adopt a true utility pricing model for virtual computers running Windows, allowing Amazon to roll the operating system licensing cost into its hourly fee, or will the Windows licenses have to continue to be purchased separately.? The 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows Server will be available and will be able to use all existing EC2 features such as Elastic IP Addresses, Availability Zones, and the Elastic Block Store. You’ll be able to call any of the other Amazon Web Services from your application. According to Amazon

Amazon EC2 running Windows Server or SQL Server provides an ideal environment for deploying ASP.NET web sites, high performance computing clusters, media transcoding solutions, and many other Windows-based applications. By choosing Amazon EC2 as the deployment environment for your Windows-based applications, you will be able to take advantage of Amazon’s proven scalability and reliability, as well as the cost-effective, pay-as-you-go pricing model offered by Amazon Web Services.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced in London today that the company will unveil its own "cloud operating system" at its big developer conference at the end of this month. According to The Register, Ballmer said:

We need a new operating system designed for the cloud and we will introduce one in about four weeks, we’ll even have a name to give you by then. But let’s just call it for the purposes of today ‘Windows Cloud’. Just like Windows Server looked a lot like Windows but with new properties, new characteristics and new features, so will Windows Cloud look a lot like Windows Server.If you talk to Google they’ll say it’s thin client computing but then they’ll issue a new browser that’s basically a big fat operating system designed to compete with Windows but running on top of it, Our big problem is there’s just no secret that gets kept in Microsoft. The guy in the office next door to somebody working on Midori is not supposed to know about Midori. The last thing we want is for somebody else to obsolete us, if we’re gonna get obseleted [sic] we better do it to ourselves

It happens many times we lose Internet access when waking our system from sleep mode, the network icon shows ‘local only’, then normally we restart machine and restore the wireless link. So first you need to check the life of device driver for notebook’s wireless adapter, it may be older than the machine.

So now you will have to update driver, visit the notebook vendor’s site and get the latest version of the driver, download & update then restart machine. Now put machine on sleep mode for a longtime then wake it up and check at bottom-right corner indicate Internet connection.

For that you’ll have to chose correct way to update Window drive driver because wrong selection may be the cause, if anything happens unlikely.

Guideline for driver update

• This may be the batter option for those, who are not able to get updated version of driver from the notebook vendors site for the appropriate update, get your driver from the PC vendor. System vendors often customize the drivers for their machine.

• Update driver one at a time, if you try to load several driver at a time then it can create some problem and also bit tough to find-out which one is not supporting or creating problem.

• Create the restore point, suppose if anything happens wrong during updating of the driver then it can protect from harm. Windows XP an Vista create a restore point before the new driver installation. For precaution set yourself via system restore with descriptive name in case you forget when and what exactly you updated. Roll Back Driver function under the Driver tab in the Device Manager Properties dialog box. Likewise, run the updates own installer rather than using Properties’ Update Driver button.

Mostly PC users can manage their software updates on their own, through vendors help. You can also update your Microsoft Office automatically via the Windows Update service, and other major applications offer similar auto-update functions. Likewise, Flash, QuickTime, and other media players can be set to update automatically.

Visit these sites when your media player goes on strike.

YouTube Help Center: In case of troubleshooting it is too quick to recommend that you un-install and then re-install the Adobe Flash Player (going through instructional video).everyone think that it is the simpler and surest way to cure all type of minor malfunction/glitches, but here I would start with the simpler steps the site suggests, like restart your browser, accessing the page using another browser then clear your browser cache.

Here I recommend you to clear your browser cache it can cure a range of page loading woes. In Firefox, click Tools > Clear Private Data, check the “Cache” option and rest uncheck, and click the “Clear Private Data Now” button. In Internet Explorer, click Tools > Delete Browsing History, and click the “Delete files” button next to Temporary Internet Files

Adobe offers a Shockwave Player support FAQ site is specific to Windows XP and others that describe various error messages, along with info on troubleshooting topics.You’ll find the latest version of the Flash Player on the Adobe Download Center. The company’s Flash Support Center is intended for Flash developers.

Apple iTunes for Windows :Apple provides separate pages to troubleshoot iTune video on Windows Vista and windows XP/2000 . it contains “unexpected quits, freezes, and launch issues” on this page for Vista and this page for XP/2000

Apple QuickTime for Windows: If you see an animated QuickTime logo in bottom right corner on QuickTime Troubleshooting site it means Apple’s Media Player is installed and functioning.

Troubleshooting Windows Media Player 11: Microsoft’s has its own troubleshooting website for the media player .It contains separate section for Most Popular/Common Questions, Self Help Options, Technical Support Options, standard FAQ’s on playing DVD’s, ripping MP3’s and finding the installing codec’s.

In typical Microsoft fashion there is separate WMP FAQ page for Windows Vista and another troubleshooting page that focuses on problems when using the player in XP and for good measure a Knowledge-Base article is troubleshooting resources

Most of the company has its own support site that provide some pages to handle and cure the problems like installing QuickTime for Windows, to enable Flash content in QuickTime movies, to view streamed files behind a firewall, and diagnosing audio-playback problems (for iTunes also).