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1. More Microsoft Office speech recognition features demoed at conference

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 08 August 2006

   At an early morning session of Day 2 of the SpeechTEK conference, which is focused on speech recognition technologies, Microsoft demonstrated more of the integrated speech recognition features that the ...

2. TechEd 2006: More with PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Outlook for Office 2007

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 20 June 2006

   In the final of three galleries from the Office 2007 demonstration at TechEd 2006, see how a change one user makes to a PowerPoint slide can be reflected in different presentations that use, or "re-use," ...

3. Windows Live Messenger now even more live, as Microsoft grows an audience

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 19 June 2006

   Though the company had plans to unveil its first in a series of so-called "Windows Live Services" last Tuesday at TechEd 2006, today, Microsoft proceeded with the rollout of Windows Live Messenger, the ...

4. TechEd 2006 Opinion: Ray Ozzie's little disruption

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

   Monday, 19 June 2006

   When he took the stage in Boston to give the keynote address at Microsoft TechEd 2006, Ray Ozzie may have known he was ascending to a throne whose warm-up act was Bill Gates. His attitude up there seemed ...

5. TechEd 2006: Longhorn's Terminal Services to run Office, Windows

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Friday, 16 June 2006

   At a demonstration of new features in the latest beta edition of Windows Server "Longhorn", Microsoft revealed that the new version of Terminal Services will enable client computers to run full applications ...

6. TechEd 2006: New Windows Server minimum installation fits on USB key

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Thursday, 15 June 2006

   In a session Wednesday afternoon on ten classes of benefits administrators will see from Windows Server "Longhorn," Microsoft technical program manager Ward Ralston revealed that one installation option ...

7. Microsoft details performance of Vista's SuperFetch, ReadyDrive

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 15 June 2006

   Microsoft provided some more details on what may become one of Vista's most popular features - the performance accelerator "SuperFetch." According to first public demonstrations, the technologies can ...

8. TechEd 2006: Microsoft demonstrates first PowerShell release candidate

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Wednesday, 14 June 2006

   Microsoft today demonstrated the first release candidate of the Windows command line shell now called PowerShell. Software architect Jeffrey Snover revealed that it is a design goal for PowerShell to ...

9. TechEd 2006: Microsoft's Sharepoint team 'LoBI's' for changes to Office 2007

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Wednesday, 14 June 2006

   Microsoft's giving it a try just one more time, this time with a lot of effort, enthusiasm, and, of course, nomenclature: It's making another try at selling the idea of letting enterprises extend the ...

10. TechEd 2006: Lonely? Spend some time with Microsoft's bots.

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 14 June 2006

    In perhaps the clearest indication at TechEd 2006 that everything old is new again, yesterday, Microsoft demonstrated a new set of APIs that will be compatible with the company's Windows Live Messenger ...

11. TechEd 2006: Vista will recover applications from shutdown, crashes

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 13 June 2006

    Windows' reliability has improved dramatically with Windows XP and will take another step forward with its successor: Among the new features of Windows Vista is the Restart Manager, which will enable ...

12. TechEd 2006: Windows Live team unveils new SDK, demos 'mashups'

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 13 June 2006

    At an early morning session of TechEd 2006, representatives of the Windows Live development team showed off a new set of open developers' tools and SDKs available now from Microsoft's new Web developers' ...

13. TechEd 2006 Day 1 Slideshow: New features for Office 2007, flash acceleration for Vista

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 12 June 2006

    We are wrapping up day 1 of Microsoft's 2006 TechEd Conference as Microsoft has provided surprisingly few details so far about its packed roadmaps for Windows Vista, its server variant and the upcoming ...

14. TechEd 2006: Microsoft preps flash-based "performance accelerators" for Vista

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 12 June 2006

    Microsoft is working on a trio of technologies that will utilize flash memory as supplemental memory rather than as storage devices. Collectively referred to as "PC performance accelerators," Microsoft ...

15. TechEd 2006: Microsoft's high-end Office 2007 gets customization tools

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 12 June 2006

    This morning's key announcement at TechEd 2006 may be Microsoft's introduction of server-based application customization tools for Office Enterprise 2007, the high-end distribution of the company's applications ...

16. TechEd 2006: Microsoft creates "Forefront" brand for security software

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 12 June 2006

    The "Day Zero" keynote speeches from Microsoft's Ray Ozzie and Bob Muglia on Sunday night were full of promises, including four that may become company mantras as the year progresses. But there was little ...

17. TechEd 2006: Office 2007 "ribbon" UI extensibility demonstrated

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 11 June 2006

    During the first unofficial day of Microsoft's TechEd 2006 conference in Boston, we got a first idea how programmers will be able to embed their own .NET functions, such as from Visual C#, directly in ...