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SAN DIEGO — Microsoft’s John Curlander on Thursday demonstrated his company’s Virtual Earth application for modeling cities in 3D. Microsoft flies over metropolises to get aerial imagery and captures video from the ground to create a real-world experience of places like Manhattan in a virtual space.
Here at ETech, a four-day conference on emerging tech, Curlander [...]

Steve Lamb points out some third-party commercial and community-provided tools to enhance your Windows Vista experience. The tools include a 3D virtual desktop interface, alternative application switchers, an enhancement for Vista’s Start Menu searchbox, and other tools to tweak Vista’s look and feel.
Thanks to David Overton and James Senior for sharing the following…
If you want [...]

♦ MCSA and MCSE are still the right certifications if you are working with WS2000 or WS2003.
♦ MCSA and MCSE will not retire.
♦ In one year, the WS2000 MCSA and MCSE exams will retire (that’s the exams, not the credentials); more news of this to publish soon.
♦ If you are planning for any of the [...]

The Tahiti Pre-Beta is limited to the first 5,000 people who install and register it.
Microsoft Codename “Tahiti” is a fast, easy way to share documents and screen views with small groups of friends or coworkers; anytime, anywhere. Use Codename “Tahiti” to put your heads together and collaborate.
For an overview of Tahiti, read the following topics:
-Learn [...]

The Change Analysis Diagnostic tool scans the computer and displays recent changes to the following areas :
• Software programs: The software programs that are listed in the Add or Remove Programs item in Control Panel.
• Operating system components: Hotfixes and downloads from Windows Update.
• Browser Helper Objects (BHOs): COM components that Internet Explorer loads when [...]

A brand new tool has been released to www.windowsvista.com that allows you to analyze your network’s router to see if it supports certain technologies. The tool is designed for both Windows XP and Windows Vista users. However, if you’re running Windows Vista - the tool will let you know if your router supports any of [...]

Today at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (eTech), Microsoft unveiled a new mobile technology, called Deepfish, designed to offer mobile users quick and convenient Web browsing that more closely resembles the experience of browsing the Web on desktop computers.
Microsoft is making a limited technology preview available to the public on a first-come basis.
To learn more [...]