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For the developers out there, new APIs in Windows 7 allows you to take advantage of the new Windows 7 features like Multi-touch, Location and Libraries, quite easily. However getting information on these new APIs has previously been restricted to the MSDN documentation, and tutorials online.
For those of use that prefer our technical information printed [...]

In all of the news about the upcoming Wave 4 update for Windows Live Essentials (Messenger, Skydrive, Mail etc) a little thing called Office Live Web Apps appeared, and now everyone can use it for free.
There are some pretty cool things here, not only do you get online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote [...]

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Come along and learn how you can learn a new language, experience a different [...]

During an interview recently, Bill Gates revealed Project Tuva, a Microsoft Research project that was started to bring about rich content to support the physics lectures that Bill Gates worked to bring online, free for all.
These lectures, called “The Messenger Series” and presented by Dr. Richard Feynman, were presented to Cornell University students in the [...]

Just last night Silverlight 3 was officially released to the public for general use, along with a new Silverlight website, a virtual launch (SeeTheLight) and the Expression Blend 3 RC (with Sketchflow!).
The new features in Silverlight 3 include, but are not limited to:

Support for MPEG4 H.264/AAC
Full 720p+ support
GPU accelerated HD playback
Perspective [...]