Microsoft have released a limited beta of their new antivirus application – Microsoft Security Essentials Beta.

This beta is available only to customers in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel (English only), People’s Republic of China (Simplified Chinese only) and Brazil (Brazilian Portuguese only).

I am based in Australia and have just finished downloading this using my U.S based Live ID.

Microsoft Security Essentials Beta can be downloaded from Microsoft Connect web site.

Download

As can be  seen, there are 3 separate downloads for you, depending on your version of the operation system

• Windows XP (32 bit)
• Windows Vista and Windows 7 (32-bit)
• Windows Vista and Windows 7 (64-bit)

Adam Pash at Lifehacker has already taken screenshots of Microsoft Security Essentials Beta installation and the quick scan feature.

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The next Windows 7 TechNet Live event will be on Windows 7 Deployment. 

Windows 7 Deployment Enhancements

Date:  Friday, July 3rd 2009 
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM (AEST)

Event Overview

This session will focus on Windows 7 enhanced deployment capabilities.

Explore

• Virtual Hard Disk Image Management and Deployment,
• Dynamic Driver Provisioning, and
• Multicast Multiple Stream Transfer functionality that is used with Windows Deployments Services for operating system deployments.

Discuss

• Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows 7 which includes Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) to create Windows 7 deployment packages.

Demonstrate

• How to deploy Windows 7 to a bare metal machine and upgrade existing Windows Vista computers to Windows 7 using Windows Deployment Services included in Windows Server 2008 R2.
• How to provision a VHD using Windows Deployment Services.

Speaker Details:  Jeff Alexander

If you have any questions prior to the event Twitter it with the hash tag #win7live

Registration Link
http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032418256&EventCategory=4&IO=gsXEArGBrBvoXZ3DcZ0kBQ%3d%3d&culture=en-AU&CountryCode=AU

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I have downloaded the TweetDeck app for the iPhone and am impressed. I have been using tweetie for a while now, but I think TweetDeck will (probably has) take(n) over!

View the Full Album of shots taken on my iPhone!

TweetDeck Desktop Version

In addition to the iPhone App, TweetDeck has also released a new version of TweetDeck for the desktop, with lots of new features including sync with the iPhone app and in the cloud.

To quote from the source, highlights of TweetDeck

Sync – you can automatically synchronise TweetDeck between your desktop and iPhone, making it really simple to import your columns and groups so you can be up and running on iPhone in a matter of minutes – no reinventing the wheel. Sync works in the background so whenever you change a group or add a new search column it’s updated and available on all your computers and your iPhone. This also means that everything can be backed up in case your computer ever crashes.

Multiple account support – you can now have multiple accounts with no need to switch between them. Whether you’re on the desktop or iPhone we’ve made it simple to see all your columns, for all your accounts and tweet from any account or even cross-post tweets to numerous Twitter accounts at the same time.

Unlimited columns – you’ll be happy to hear that you can now have as many columns as you’d like on TweetDeck. No more 10 columns limit, now the sky’s the limit.

Local trends – rather than only being able to see what’s trending on Twitter as a whole, with local trends, you can now see what’s hot among your own friends and colleagues. You’ll be able to run local trends on any of your columns in TweetDeck.

Here’s a quick list of everything else that you can expect to see in the new desktop version:

• Conversation window – View an entire dialogue all at once.
• Video playback – Watch Qik or 12seconds video clips from the comfort of TweetDeck.
• New ‘Block & Report Spam’ button – Just one click will delete the message from view, block the user and report them to Twitter.
• TweetDeck Recommends column – Find new and interesting people to follow whether you’re a Twitter newbie or a veteran of the Twitterverse.
• ‘Reply All’ – Tweet everyone mentioned in a tweet in just a couple of clicks.
• YFrog – Share and preview YFrog photos inside TweetDeck.
• Smart filter – Start typing a username to find a person and add them to a group quickly and easily.
• RE (In reference to) tweets – Easily comment on a discussion.

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Whoever came up with this site must be applauded for their efforts. It makes it easier for me to compare results!

Bing is all over the news and I am loving it more and more.

Just look at the Microsoft Translator work in Bing. Awesome. Same query in Google – fail!

I really loved the translation service. Too good!

Google, get real! Bing wins again. I am no where near Brisbane, CA! What’s up with Google? Can’t geo locate me?

Google wins this one though Bing does ‘suggest Current Time In Brisbane’ in the left sidebar. Google could not identify my city correctly, but picked up the time perfect! Reading my system clock???

I have just created a page for everything Bing, keep an eye out for that page. It will be updated as I come across Bing resources. It’s located here

In other news reported it seems that Google is feeling the heat! It’s too early we all would agree, but this news is for real! Check them out too!

I’d be giving http://www.bingandgoogle.com/ a go!

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I have written a how to post over at Just SharePoint blog on using XSL to trim the blog post content on SharePoint Home Page. Basically it’s modifying the web part and converting it to XSLT view and adding some code to achieve the results.

Head over to view the post. Don’t forget to sign up for RSS whilst you are there! And… check out Just SharePoint twitter profile page that I did recently… follow Just SharePoint on Twitter

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If you have been using Outlook 2007 and have never had performance issues with, you are lucky. Period.

Outlook 2007 was and probably is the most chastised of the Office 2007 suite of products today. Outlook 2007 took a hit with performance.

Despite having released numerous hot fixes and service packs, Outlook 2007 has not won many laurels. Time will tell if Outlook 2010 will outperform Outlook 2007 in the performance department!!

In the meantime see how Outlook 2010 TP has now donned the ‘ribbon’ just as SharePoint Designer 2010 TP.

Office 2007 did not have ‘the’ ribbon as compared to Word, Excel, etc.

Outlook 2010 TP has ribbon just as SharePoint Designer 2010 TP

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Windows 7 has some really cool features. One of them I discovered in the Beta version and also in RC is the ability to move the connection bar when in full screen.

This is very helpful when you have may have multiple RDP sessions and the connection bars over lap each other. It can get very confusing unless you have some kind of background information as to which server or workstation you are logged into.

Now with Windows 7 (RC) you can have multiple RDP connection bars that can be re arranged as per this video.

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Per these screenshots, you can see that I have moved the connection bar to left and then to right. This is a very neat feature that you can use when you have multiple RDP sessions running and with this feature you can move the connection bars, spreading them across the screen. So if you have four RDP sessions running concurrently, you can now have 4 connection bars sitting next to each other, rather then over lapping!

Now that’s cool!

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2010 is the year of the Ribbon Ribbon has been introduced in

• InfoPath Designer,
• InfoPath Editor,
• Outlook,
• SharePoint Designer
• One Note
• SharePoint Workspace

Yes, the ribbon has made it’s way into SharePoint Designer 2010 (technical preview at the time of writing).

In this post you will see basic SPD2010 walk through.

This is the initial start up screen when you launch SPD 2010. This is your launch pad to

• Open SharePoint Site
• Create New SharePoint Site
• Access SPD Options Menu

First two options are kind of obvious at the moment. I am unable to use them though .

You cannot edit your WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 sites with SPD 2010 (TP). You can only edit web sites on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2009

Access SPD Options to

• Customize Ribbon
• Quick Access Toolbar

I am a big fan of Quick Access Toolbar and will cover more of both in coming posts. This post is your introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010 (TP) for starts.

So how does SPD 2010(TP) stand up against SPD 2007 in the department of looks?

It’s your call.

SharePoint Designer 2007 on Launch

SharePoint Designer 2010 (TP) on Launch

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Last night I could not post on this blog using Windows Live Writer. Now trying to post using ScribeFire.

Initially I could not post using ScribeFire either. So I did the same hack to .htaccess file as blogged earlier.

I can now post using ScribeFire. Tonight will check if WLW works

Once this issue is sorted, I will start posting Office 2010 Technical Preview posts. Stay tuned. Thanks for subscribing to my blog feeds.

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