Microsoft Security Essentials available now

Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is out of beta and have been released now. Get it from here :

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

I am upgrading my beta version of MSE, a detailed post will be soon followed.

Kylie shares even more Good News about Windows 7

Continuing with the ‘Good News’ series of Ads on Windows 7, here’s another one-

Kylie's Conversations

The happy words just keep on coming as Kylie creates another slideshow to share even more good news about Windows 7 with her friends.

How to access and try Microsoft Office Web Apps Tech Preview

You all must have heard about the launch of Microsoft Office Web Apps as it was announce yesterday Office comes to Windows Live – starting today . And now must be eager to try them out. If you were already in Microsoft Office 2010 Tech Preview program launched some months back then you can access the new Office Web Apps*. Else you can sign up here now.

Now if you are one of those who have earlier registered and tried Office 2010 TP then no need to wait for invitations of Office Web Apps. You can access it now and try them.

Just go to Windows Live SkyDrive http://skydrive.live.com and sign in using your Windows Live ID, the same ID with which you had registered earlier.

And upload a document in My Documents/ Documents or any folder if you don’t have anything in it, I have uploaded few Word Documents.

So as you do you will get the option ‘Join our program to create, edit, view, share Office documents online! ‘

Click on the link and you will get this page  which tells that You’ve been selected to participate in exclusive Tech preview of the New Office Web Apps…..

Click on the link ‘ Start using the Office Web Apps today !’ and Accept the agreement and that’s all . Start using and trying out the New Office Web Apps.

And you will see the ‘New’ option which will allow you to create new documents and start working on them.

At present I’m super excited trying out PowerPoint and Excel Web Apps

 

At present Word and OneNote are still to come for New documents, while Word Web App can only be viewed.

Extend your Office Experience on the Web, Work anywhere, Work together. You just need the Supporting Browser .

At present Office Web Apps are supported in the following browsers:

§ Internet Explorer 7.0

§ Internet Explorer 8.0

§ Firefox 3

§ Safari for Mac 3

So what are you waiting for, try it out now ! I’m also exploring and experiencing various Office Web Apps within my browser.

*EDIT: It seems like all are not getting access to Office Web Apps even if they had registered earlier for Office 2010 TP. As many of my friends are not able to access it. At present its just the select few and in coming days this will be increased so many more will get access. btw I can tell you that this Office Web Apps is Superb!

New Keyboard shortcuts in Hotmail Wave4 M1, including those to match Yahoo, Gmail

As said in my earlier post ‘New features coming to Hotmail Wave4 M1 release’ about various updates Hotmail Wave4 M1 will be getting, here’s a complete list of new keyboard shortcuts introduced in Hotmail Wave4 M1 release including shortcuts to match both Yahoo and Gmail. These updates have started to roll out and will be done in stages, so these options may not be seen for all users at present. Everyone will be getting these updates by the end of September.

A new page in Options has been added to Windows Live Hotmail Wave4 M1 to choose what type of shortcuts you'd like to use. To choose the mode of keyboard shortcuts or to turn off keyboard shortcuts, follow these steps:

Go to Options > More options > Under ‘Customize your mail’ , choose ‘Change keyboard shortcuts’ > Select which mode you'd like to use -

-Turn off keyboard shortcuts 
-Hotmail and Outlook Web Access (OWA) 
-Yahoo! Mail 
-Gmail

Click Save.

(Image courtesy: Windows Live Team Blog)

The Yahoo! Mail and Gmail modes support many of the shortcuts from those services.

Here's a full list of the keyboard shortcuts available:

(Click the picture for enlarged view)

(Source: Windows Live Solution Center)

New features coming to Hotmail Wave4 M1 release

Lots of new features is coming to the Windows Live Hotmail Wave4 M1 release. These updates have started on August 31st, and will be rolled out in stages over the coming weeks and will be completed all over by September end. This has been posted by a Microsoft employee at the Windows Live Solution Center. But I haven’t heard anyone getting these updates yet.

Here’s the complete list as posted at solution center:

Auto Refresh of Inbox -

If a user is logged into WebIM, their inbox will automatically refresh. Currently this is set to 60 seconds.

Please note that customers currently will not have an option to change the refresh interval or turn off this option.

Auto save Drafts -

Emails are now automatically saved to the drafts folder while a user is composing them. This is currently set to 3 minutes.

Please note that customers currently will not have an option to change the save interval or turn off this option.

Keyboard Shortcuts -

Lots of keyboard shortcuts, including shortcuts to match both Yahoo and Gmail. A new page in Options to choose what type of shortcuts you'd like to use. (A detailed post on keyboard shortcuts soon)

Contact Picker Improvements -

Users can now edit contacts in compose, recently e-mailed data used in auto-complete and contact picker, copy/paste enabled for IE, verify recipients enabled

Verify recipients: When the user types in an email address, upon completion of the email address, Hotmail verifies if the email address is "valid".  If the recipient is bad, it is flagged "Red" and the user can edit the entry. When the user hovers over the email address, we will show a tooltip that explains the email address is bad.

Download all attachments -

If there are multiple attachments on an email, they can now be downloaded together as one zip file.

WebIM Contact List -

Buddy list of online friends now available from the WebIM Dropdown

Mobile browser improvements -

A number of backend changes to improve performance on mobile devices/browsers

Action Bar at bottom of page -

Reply/Forward/Delete is now available from both the top and bottom of an email 

So these are the updates which will be rolled out in the new version of Hotmail Wave4 M1. As you can see these are all very practical and useful updates and will further enhance the Windows Live Hotmail. Hope we will start seeing them soon.

(Source: New/changed features in Hotmail Update)

Kylie is Happy- First ‘Good News’ series of Windows 7 Ads

You must be familiar with Kylie as she had appeared earlier also on Windows commercial Kylie, Age 4 1/2 .  Now she’s  featured in First ‘Good News’ series of Ads.

Kylie has found a lot of happy words on her dad's computer. And it just so happens they're all about Windows 7.