Microsoft Launches WorldWide Telescope
Microsoft launched its WorldWide Telescope late Monday. The free Web-based application allows users to zoom around the universe and browse through the galaxy on their own or take guided tours of different outer-space destinations developed by astronomers and academics.
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13.5.2008 Virtual Earth, Full of Stars, via WorldWide Telescope
At the end of September, Microsoft made available a new version of Virtual Earth 3D, complete with a new 3D control.
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7.10.2008 A free weekend of Xbox Live Gold
Microsoft will offer free access to its Xbox Live Gold service from March 31 through April 2, the company said Thursday. microsoft -
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1.4.2006 Windows Live Custom Domains - Free Email Hosting
A new service was added to the Windows Live Beta family today - Windows Live Custom Domains. The basic idea is that anyone with a domain can now point their MX record to the Live servers. What that means is that users can have Microsoft's servers hosting their own domain's email accounts for free.
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20.11.2005 IE VPC - New Free Editions of Windows XP SP2 Live for Download!
Two new free editions of Windows XP Service Pack 2 are live for download from Microsoft. The offerings are just the latest versions from a series delivered since late 2006, following the release of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP SP2.
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20.8.2007 Windows 7 Free Upgrade Option Program Website Live June 26
Although Microsoft has yet to officially confirm the launch date for its Windows 7 Upgrade Option Program, fact is that the Redmond company is about to go live with the initiative.
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24.6.2009 Microsoft: Some Free Vista (+SP1) to Go Along with the Free XP SP2 Downloads?
Free downloads of Microsoft's operating systems have been made available throughout 2007, and the Redmond company is ready to take it one step further.
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5.2.2008 Windows Live Spaces goes Live!r. Our nameless source writes:
On Monday Microsoft began rolling out Windows Live Spaces, the next generation of the world’s most widely used blogging service, MSN Spaces. The new service includes social networking features designed to help users discover and connect with friends through their trusted contacts and allows customers to personalize their Windows Live Spaces with gadgets.
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2.8.2006 Windows Live Mail, Live Writer & Messenger 8.5 Beta
Microsoft has announced the availability of 3 Windows Live products today, all of which are beta.
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31.5.2007 Office Live and Windows Live Call + Screenshots
After the announcements yesterday about Microsoft's new "live" services the company held a press conference detailing all the products in the Microsoft Live platform.
The company demoed an early version of Office Live, a managed web application for organising calendar, mail and contacts. Office Live will combine Web Hosting, Collaboration of Projects, Business Applications and Communications. Many expect a fully hosted version of Microsoft Office but this is not the company's intension for Office Live.
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New Windows Live Messenger Is Live, Web-Based
While it is in the process of forcing users of its IM client to upgrade to the latest version of the client-based application, Microsoft has introduced a new version of Windows Live Messenger.
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13.10.2009 Microsoft Goes Live Crazy With Live Labs
We've heard about Windows Live, Office Live, Visual Studio Live, CRM Live. But now there's the Live granddaddy of them all:
The Microsoft Live Labs. microsoft -
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26.1.2006 Windows Live Mail 5 is Live
Well, almost. It's coming very soon, we promise. But for those who can't wait, here's a sneak peak at all the new features for Windows Live Mail Beta "M5" (M5 is geek speak for Milestone 5).
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1.3.2006 Windows Live Sync is Live!
We've been hard at work on the new software, and we're pleased to report that the new Windows Live Sync is now available for Windows and the Mac.
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12.12.2008 Windows Live FrameIt, a Small Piece of Windows Live Wave 3
Microsoft is currently cooking Wave 3 of its Windows Live suite of products and services. As of July 30, the Redmond company unveiled Windows Live FrameIt, a new Windows Live service built as an integral part of Wave 3.
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1.8.2008 ZoneAlarm Free 5.5
If you have DSL or a cable modem, your IP address is permanent. Although this has benefits, it also carries the serious shortcoming of rendering your PC vulnerable to attacks. A firewall, in this respect, becomes not just desirable but a necessity.
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WoW for Free!
Are you tired of paying $14.99 a month for a game you already bought? If so check out this great site for a list of the best FREE World of Warcraft servers and their current statuses.
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BurnAware Free 2.1
BurnAware is the ultimate disc burning software. BurnAware Free is ideal for users with basic disc burning needs as backup, creating data, audio, video discs and burning disc images.
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25.8.2008 BurnAware Free 2.1.1
The BurnAware Free application was designed for users with basic disc burning needs as backup, creating data, audio, video discs and burning disc images.
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3.9.2008 Get a Mac Mini for free!
With the popularity of Mac Mini's, people are snatching them up quickly before they are all gone. We've done this offer for a free one and so should you! The quickest way to get your free Mac Mini it to sign up to the Rhapsody service through the link below (it will only cost you 99 cents) and follow the directions.
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a-squared Free 3.1.0.20
Security must not be a privilege. Under this motto, Emsi Software provides the Malware scanner a-squared Free completely free of charge for private use.
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11.1.2008 Free AVG 8.0 Download
Yesterday, Grisoft announced that a new version of AVG Antivirus Free would be released today, April 24, that was supposed to come with several new functions beside the
ones already included in the application
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24.4.2008 Free Nero 9 Available for Download
One year after the release of Nero 8, Nero has made available for download the next iteration of
the integrated digital media and home entertainment software suite.
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29.9.2008 Free file hosting service
Host your files with the fastest growing web-hosting service in the world at slashdot.co.za!
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Microsoft makes OneCare free for some
Microsoft is preparing to roll out its Windows Live OneCare security product, it is offering some people the $49.95-a-year service for free
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26.4.2006 Free mp3's brought to you by: Zune
Artist Direct is offering 35 mp3 files (yeah I counted) to promote Zune usage.
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21.1.2007 Microsoft takes on the free world
Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties from distributors and users. Users like you, maybe. Fortune's Roger Parloff reports.
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14.5.2007 Any Video Converter Free 2.07
Any Video Converter is an All-in-One video converting tool with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed and excellent video quality. It allows you to effortlessly convert video files between every format!
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1.8.2007 Free Create-Burn ISO 2.0
Free Create-Burn ISO is a professional data CD / DVD burning tool. With this software you can burn CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW discs directly, or you can quickly create ISO image file from your computer, and burn ISO image file to your CD / DVD disc.
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3.8.2007 ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.91.2
ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP and 2003. ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge.
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23.8.2007Microsoft WorldWide Telescope Site Now Live
The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best
ground and space telescopes in the world for a seamless, guided exploration of the universe.
WorldWide Telescope, created with
Microsoft's high-performance Visual Experience Engine™, enables seamless panning and zooming across the night sky blending terabytes of images,
data, and stories from multiple sources over the Internet into a media-rich, immersive experience.
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28.02.2008New Telescope Looks to the 'Violent' Universe
Scientists have turned on a
new telescope in Arizona that
they hope will help them find
so-called 'dark matter.'..
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02.05.2007WorldWide Telescope Puts Wonders of Space on a PC
Since its public beta release in May 2008, WorldWide Telescope has garnered rave reviews in the press, support from educators and scientists across
the globe, two award nominations, and nearly 2 million regular users...
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25.03.2009Microsoft's 'Telescope' to compete with Google 'Sky'
Not wasting any time in rebounding from its failed attempt to buy Yahoo, Microsoft is now readying its own response to Google Sky -- a tool known as
Worldwide Telescope, which is set to launch at the end of the month...
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13.05.2008Microsoft launches WorldWide Telescope
Computer users now can fly through the universe, viewing stars, planets and celestial bodies as an astronomer would, with the introduction of the
Worldwide Telescope by Microsoft.
The virtual service combines images and databases from every major telescope and astronomical
organization in the world.
Microsoft says it is providing the resource for free in memory of Jim Gray, the Microsoft researcher
who disappeared last year while sailing his boat to the Farallon Islands on a trip to scatter his mother's ashes. The project is an extension of
Gray's work.
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13.05.2008Hubble Space Telescope crashes again, and fix may not come until February
And you thought fixing your PC was tough? After beaming in pictures from outer space for the past 18 years, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope now needs
to be repaired. But that might not happen until next week, or possibly even next year...
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18.10.2008Telescope 7.7.0
Telescope is a metasearch
engine for Windows, which
automates web searching by
combining results from several
search engines. In
addition to general web
searching, it can access
results from web directories,
image search engines, news web
sites, encyclopedias, and free
software archives.
Telescope searches 38 search
engines including 7 in the web
category.
What's
New:
* Export to
CSV (comma-separated
values)
* Choice of
browsers from Options menu
(compatibility unknown)
* Fixed links to Windows Live
Search, Google Images, and
LII.org
* Replaced
"Moreover" with Windows Live
News
* Moved Save As,
Open, etc. back to File
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25.12.2006Microsoft Bigwigs Donate to Telescope
A project to build a pioneering telescope in Chile got a $30 million boost Thursday with donations from Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and former
company executive Charles Simonyi.
Simonyi is donating $20 million and Gates $10 million to pay for three major mirrors that will
be used in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a nearly $400 million project that will be able to survey the entire sky every three nights --
something never done before.
Astronomers anticipate surveying the heavens for 10 years, with observations starting in 2015.
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04.01.2008Hands on with Microsoft's new WorldWide Telescope beta
On Wednesday, Microsoft announced the "Equinox" beta update to the WorldWide Telescope, its vast astronomical visualization software. We spent
some time with the software to see how well you can navigate the universe in 3D...
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31.10.2008Herschel and Planck ready for dual launch
The European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory and Planck space telescope have successfully completed their tests in Europe, and will be
flown to the space port in Kourou, French Guiana this week, ready for their launch in April. Named after 18th Century astronomer William Herschel,
the Herschel space observatory will be the biggest telescope mirror in space and capable of viewing wavelength radiation in the far-infrared and
sub-millimetre range. In comparison, the Hubble telescope is only capable of viewing light that is visible to the human eye. The Planck space
telescope is going to be looking for even longer radiation - microwave radiation.
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10.02.2009FastCompany.TV WorldWide Telescope Interview
Larry Larsen: ScobleizerTV launched on FastCompany.tv and Scoble's
first interview is Curtis Wong of the
WorldWide Telescope project. If you didn't get enough WWT during the
TED
presentation, this should help fill in some details for you.
In addition to visible light photos stitching together the night
sky, you can view things in x-ray and other wavelengths. There's no time counter on his video, but check out the supernova shown about a third of the
way into the video. Very very cool stuff. Coming this spring.
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04.03.2008Milkyway rises over Texas video, in honor of Hubble
In honoring the success of the Hubble repair mission star watchers across the globe are holding "star parties" to observe the heavens. Neowin
recently posted pictures of Atlantis pulling Hubble out of orbit and today, in celebration of the successful Hubble repair mission, we bring you the
video below. The Hubble has been successfully repaired and the last humans to ever touch it have left the telescope. The final day was relatively
drama free other than the emotions of those on board who completed the dangerous space walks some 350 miles above the Earth. The telescope has
serviced a vital role in exploring our Universe.
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19.05.2009Man captures images of Atlantis pulling Hubble out of orbit
NASA and some very brave astronauts are currently on a mission to perform maintenance on the aging Hubble space telescope. The mission itself is to
repair broken parts and add in a new camera and other new pieces to help extend the life of the telescope. One amateur astronomer wasn't content
with only reading about it online or possibly watching a live feed. He decided to take a picture of the repair mission by himself from down here on
Earth. What you see below is Atlantis as it is about to capture Hubble from orbit. These impressive and stunning photos were taken by Thierry
Legault's from Florida and the backdrop in the picture is the Sun.
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15.05.2009Roy Gould talks about the WorldWide Telescope
Science educator
Roy Gould and Microsoft's Curtis Wong give an
astonishing sneak preview of Microsoft's new WorldWide Telescope -- a technology that combines feeds from satellites and telescopes all over the
world and the heavens, and weaves them together holistically to build a comprehensive view of our universe. (Yes, it's the technology that made
Robert Scoble cry.)
Click read more for the embedded Hi-Def video presentation.
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29.02.2008MS Entices Users with Free
Xbox Live
Through a sponsorship deal
with Verizon, Microsoft said
Friday it would allow free
Xbox Live access from March 31
through April 2 to any Xbox
360 owner. Called the Xbox
Live Gold Weekend, events
would include multiplayer
gaming, leaderboard
tournaments, and Play and Win
contents...
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10.03.2006WorldWide Telescope Public Beta
A public beta of Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope has been released. WorldWide Telescope is a rich Web application that brings together imagery from
the best ground and space based observatories across the world to allow people to easily explore the night sky through their computers.
From the WorldWideTelescope website:
"Want to see the same images that scientists at NASA use for their research or perform your own research
with those images? Or do you want to see the Earth from the same perspective that astronauts see as they descend to Earth? How about taking a 5 minute
break and viewing a panorama of a different city? Install WWT and start your explorations."
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13.05.2008Microsoft's answer to Google Sky to launch at end of May
Microsoft will launch Worldwide Telescope, a tool for exploring images of the night sky, by the end of May, free to anyone who wants to use it,
Microsoft's chairman said Friday.
Worldwide Telescope is
software that allows people to gaze at the universe through the data collected by telescopes all around the world -- and above it: there's even data
from NASA's
Hubble Space Telescope.
"This is taking data that's very
complex, gathered over many years from many telescopes, and making it accessible," said Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, at a speech in Jakarta,
Indonesia.
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09.05.2008Free Windows Live Hotmail POP3 access has gone worldwide
About a month ago we reported that Microsoft was rolling out free POP3 access to Windows Live Hotmail customers in select markets. For the vast
majority, including myself, the updates had yet to hit their accounts. Well the wait is over, the Windows Live Hotmail team has officially announced
that POP3 access for all Windows Live Hotmail accounts has now rolled out to every customer. Here are the settings to access your e-mail messages via
POP3: POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995) POP SSL required? Yes User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example yourname@hotmail.com Password: The
password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live SMTP server: smtp.live.com (Port 25 or 587) Authentication required?
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13.03.2009TED video: Microsoft Researchs WorldWide Telescope
Long Zheng: To my surprise, the
TED conference organizers has swiftly uploaded the
presentation recording from
Microsoft’s
announcement of their WorldWide Telescope technology showcased no more than 12 hours ago, when in contrast, videos are usually only made available
online after a year or two of exclusivity. Remembering, attendees pay several thousands of dollars to go to this conference - one of, if not the best
conference in the world, so to make an exception for this particular presentation is really something.
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28.02.2008Nasa and Microsoft bring Universe to Web
Microsoft today announced a new partnership with NASA to bring images & data of moon and Mars to Microsoft's Worldwide Telescope (WWT) for
Internet viewing. Through a Space Act agreement, Microsoft and NASA will jointly develop the technology and infrastructure necessary to make NASA
content available including high-resolution scientific images and data from Mars and the moon for viewing through WorldWide Telescope, Microsoft's
online virtual telescope. The above image shows the Proctor Crater on Mars. The bright, small ridges are sand ripples, and the larger, darker
bedforms are sand dunes. We will get to see more interesting images in WWT later this year, as part of a joint Space Act Agreement.
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