when technology is a part of the whole!

Saving your computer from Virus for FREE

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kant) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:52:39 PDT

For years, you have relied on ratings of various FREE anti-virus software to choose the one you want for your home PC. the choice has been mostly between AVG or Avira. If you were me, you would believe that one should pay for minimum 2 softwares on your PC: Your Operating System i.e. Windows Your Anti-Virus i.e. Norton/ McAfee Now, Microsoft wants you to keep your computer safe for you.

Gaming monster comes to India – Dell Alienware range

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kant) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:48:54 PDT

For all you PC gamers out there, there is reason to rejoice. The internationally acclaimed Alienware range is here in India! Dell has launched its Alienware M17x and this represents premium performance in the Dell consumer product portfolio. On to some specs of the the 17” monster: Up to Dual 1GB NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 280M graphics processing units (GPUs)2 with SLI™ technology

Microsoft India launches Online Services

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kant) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:34:54 PDT

Cloud based services have been in focus for a few years now. From FREE online email services (e.g. hotmail, gmail) to paid online services (e.g. Google Apps, Office Online, Yahoo Premium emails), the adoption of these services has been steadily rising. The safety of these applications have been questioned (as exposed by recent Twitter docs leak).. While Microsoft had launched its service in US

My Election Wish 2009 #indiavotes

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kant) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:07:17 PDT

India is going to be voting soon. I have been thinking on how we can improve the whole political process and quality of candidates. The systemic issue with our voting process has been that educated people have stayed away from voting. IMHO, the reason being they don’t want to sweat out standing in a line or going to the nearest booth for lack of simple amenities. I think there is a simple

Microsoft makes its Web Design tool FREE

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kant) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:51:28 PDT

Today, everyone has a blog. Everyone knows how to design a website (atleast with the right tools). To support this new era, Microsoft is making available its web design tool FREE for everyone. This free tool (called Sharepoint Designer 2007 or SPD) has been made available at http://www.microsoft.com/spd to download. Sharepoint Designer is successor of the FrontPage tools that many of the people

New Version of Windows Live Mobile released

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kant) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:27:33 PDT

Today Microsoft has released a new version of Windows Live client for Windows Mobile devices. If you are using any of the Live services – Live search, Messenger or hotmail, you want this locally installed on your Windows Phone as well. the download can be accessed from: http://wl.windowsmobile.com. The version currently available is v10.6.0046.0800. the exciting addition to this suite has

Windows Phones gets a lot of Bling

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kant) — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:04:28 PDT

Today the twitterverse is occupied with news of skype releasing apps for iphone. Well, that is old news for Windows Phone users: http://skype.com/download/skype/windowsmobile/ But today, Microsoft Phones are getting a lot of bling.. Here’s some of the bling it is getting: MySpace now enables use of Silverlight on their site With its rich media capability is going to be a big help to

To see a browser – Take off its clothes

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kant) — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:00:31 PDT

This is from a recent trip that I took and met few people who were Firefox users. Most of them were using FireFox at home and IE at work.. and most of them felt that FireFox was “faster” –meaning it would load websites faster and FF itself would load faster..So, I devised this test and called it the “Naked Browser” challenge. Are you upto taking this? Here is what were are trying to do – kill

What’s your Phone Ishtyle?

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kant) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:28:47 PST

Internet is spread with numerous surveys you can take to know yourself. From what cricketer are you to what colour are you, everyone has taken a survey of some kind. The surveys are a lot of fun and very entertaining. Now Microsoft offers to tell you your Phone personality or Phone Style. It will ask you 5-6 questions and then tell you your phone characteristics. I took the interesting quiz

Search for Voice: Microsoft Recite

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kant) — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:12:05 PST

Microsoft Recite is a search technology for your voice that runs on Windows Mobile 6.0 or higher devices. With Microsoft Recite, you can use your voice to easily store, search and retrieve the things you want to remember, where and when you need them. Recite even lets you remember and search in multiple languages. You can record your shopping list, friends’ birthdays, addresses, school

Win32/Conficker.B/Downadup infections

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kant) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:38:01 PST

Reports of a new worm Conficker, Kido or Downadup are doing the rounds. Win32/Conficker.B exploits a vulnerability in the Windows Server service (SVCHOST.EXE) for Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, and Windows 2008. Attacked systems may lock out users, disable our update services and block access to security-related Web sites. Microsoft addressed this issue in October

In recession – Cut Costs: Microsoft India Shows How

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kant) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:54:09 PST

The one thing i keep hearing everyday is cost cutting that is going on everywhere. Layoffs are more drastic of these cost cutting measures. Our company has also done its own bit of cost cutting (without firing anyone yet!).. Microsoft India has launched a website - http://www.controlcosts.com/ that can help enterprises cut costs. The site showcases prominent Indian business leaders at the site

Microsoft launches Answers website in BETA

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kant) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:33:36 PST

Consumers worldwide now have another way of seeking help from peers. Microsoft has today launched Microsoft Answers BETA: http://answers.microsoft.com/windows for providing community support for Windows Vista. If you have an issue or want to learn a few things about Windows Vista, this may be your destination. Microsoft Answers Website is: · A rich, interactive community self-help experience

Technocratical Society

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kant) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:55:22 PST

In the past days, I haven’t been blogging. A lot has happened in that time – terrorist attack in Mumbai, MNS lost track, global recession set in and Congress advanced in the country. Here’s an ode to the state of the society as viewed by my nephew, Shantanu Chandra who is in Class XII, Amity International, Gurgaon. The lines below capture the times prevailing and the need for us to drop the “

Students in India Get all MS Development Tools for FREE!!

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kant) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:52:09 PST

One of the biggest grouse that I had heard from community was that MS development tools were very expensive for people in India. Specifically, students mentioned that it was impossible for them to get the products due to them being expensive. In the first step, Microsoft made available Express edition of the development tools freely available for everyone. And now, hold ur breadth, it is making

Watch Bill Gates talk about innovation in India

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kant) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:02:52 PST

Bill Gates, the prodigious Founder & Chairman of Microsoft is in India. Tomorrow he is going to be talking about the innovation opportunities in India and how Microsoft is going to be supporting the same.. the talk is scheduled to be in IIT Delhi from 2:00 PM… I am going to be attending the event. I have clicked a photo of my exclusive pass here :).. BTW, if u were a member of Delhi

Teaching Kids to Code: BASIC Reloaded

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kant) — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:42:43 PDT

What it the first programming language you learnt? If you are my age, chances are your first programming language was GW BASIC that you learnt in class 5. But I soon learnt that to do anything serious I had to learn Pascal or Cobol. Microsoft is now reviving the old magic with new technology fuelling the programming paradigm. They have announced – “Small Basic”. This programming language that

IndiMMS: The New Voice in Town

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kant) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:17:11 PDT

After being a blogger for a long time, I have additionally decided to venture out in the podcasting field. I am happy to announce that I am launching a new podcast series called “IndiMMS Kand”.. the podcast is proposed to be weekly and should be around 10 mins long.. If you wanted to bookmark the site where the podcast will be available, it is: http://www.indimms.com/ The preferred mode of

Community Tools for Microsoft Developers

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kant) — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:58:09 PDT

Microsoft Technology Developers constitute one of the largest technical communities in the world. A significant number of these communities are hosted by external parties other than Microsoft. In addition, Microsoft itself hosts a number of these communities. Recently, I was invited to deliver a session on community tools that Microsoft developers can benefit from at Delhi User Group. I took

Live Maps comes to India

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kant) — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:45:41 PDT

Live Maps from Microsoft is a good product.. and till now it was only good in US.. Microsoft has finally made Live Maps available for India (news via LiveSide.net).. it is still not comprehensive for small cities in India and only has Street Maps for 9 major Indian cities - Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, and Jaipur. I took the maps for a spin asking for

First Look on Zune 3.0

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kant) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:41:52 PDT

Zune, the iPod rival, has released its version 3.0.. the release further enhances the utility of the hardware available on the device.. Zune distinguishes itself from iPod by including FM tuner and WiFi ability at the same price as iPod.. the v3 release includes additional functionality for FM tuner and WiFi..“Buy from FM”This feature lets you download the song that u hear on the radio of your

How to make your Windows Mobile speak Hindi

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kant) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:33:49 PDT

You’ve seen numerous Windows Mobiles in the market from makers like Motorola, HTC, imate, Samsung (in fact only Nokia doesn’t have a Windows Mobile phone!!).. what you have NOT seen is the Windows Mobile displaying local Indian languages like Hindi.. watch these screenshots from my HP Windows Mobile phone: Watch the day of the week in Hindi alongwith the name of the month. Even the

Meeting the formidable Microsoft User Group Leaders

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kant) — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:08:13 PDT

“Microsoft community drives Microsoft products” – a statement that would make you roll with laughter, isn’t it? it did for me too till i attended the User Group Leads meet organised by Microsoft. it is here that i witnessed the seriousness with which the user group community goes about its job (i had earlier tweeted about this). User Groups is the life blood of the Microsoft communities (other

Live Mesh Comes to India

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kant) — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:30:00 PDT

Live Mesh technical preview has expanded to include Canada, India and Ireland (English only). So what is Live Mesh you might wonder? Live Mesh is supposed to be a platform on which anyone would be able to build applications using the basic services of synchronization across the devices done over internet. Mesh, true to its name, will enable users to reach their information and applications

Independence Day

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kant) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:51:40 PDT

Congratulations Countrymen! May peace and sense prevail..

Sunrise over the trees [Buzznet]

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The Hills of Nahan [Buzznet]

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Ancient Toaster at Fort at Nahan [Buzznet]

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Parshuram Temple at Nahan [Buzznet]

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Grand View Resort at Nahan [Buzznet]

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