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Public Windows 7 beta launched at CES

During his keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Wednesday night, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced a publicly available version of a Windows 7 beta and said consumers will be invited to test-drive it as of Jan. 9. Despite rumors, no Zune phone materialized but partnerships with Netflix and Verizon for mobile phone services did. In addition, a partnership with Dell will have Microsoft's Windows Live Essentials -- free Web apps that compete with Google Docs -- pre-loaded onto Dell PCs as of February.

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  • Microsoft releases its second iPhone app: Microsoft Tag Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Thu, 01/08/2009

    Microsoft Tag has been ported to the iPhone which makes it the second iPhone app that Microsoft offers (the first being Seadragon). With Microsoft Tag, the whole world can become a barcode with the cell phone acting as the bar code scanner. Users aim their camera phone at a tagged object and the app shows them data associated with the object/tag. For instance, if advertisers tag their billboards, business cards, T-shirts, print ads, a mobile phone user equipped with the Tag app receives whatever multimedia info stored in the tag -- be it content (directions to the advertised store), videos, music, contact information, maps, social networks, promotions what-have-you. Nothing to type and no need to launch a browser.

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  • Will Windows 7 be free to consumers in July? Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Wed, 01/07/2009

    Windows watchdog site, Tech Arp, is reporting that Microsoft may give Vista users a free upgrade to Windows 7 by as early as mid 2009. The blog site says it obtained a copy of a memo issued by Redmond to its OEM partners that outlines something called the "Windows 7 Upgrade Program."

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  • More free PowerShell scripts and using/not using SCVMM for VMware Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Tue, 01/06/2009

    Here's a cool resource for PowerShell newbies (and who these days isn't at least dabbling with Microsoft's young scripting language?): the Get-Scripting podcast. The podcast is up to Episode 6 in its ongoing series on How to Learn PowerShell. Episode 6 features Ben Pearce, a premier field engineer at Microsoft whose job is to help enterprise customers make their systems more efficient.

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