25 Most Innovative Products of the Year
Web apps that transcend the Web. PCs that redefine what a PC can do. And oh yeah, a certain cell phone you may have heard of. We pick 25 breakthroughs that you can get your hands on right now.
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29.12.2007 Security in Microsoft Products
Join Mike Nash, Vice President for the Microsoft Security Business Unit, and his team of security experts each month. Microsoft is working hard to improve security and Mike and his team invite you to join them in a candid Q&A session.
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12.1.2006 2 Office products enhanced
Microsoft looks to expand market by adding features
Microsoft Corp. is trying to expand the potential market for two of its Office programs for businesses, increasing its competition with Oracle Corp., SAP, IBM Corp. and others that make corporate software.
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22.1.2006 Is Microsoft sabotaging its own products?
No, this cannot be the case. Perhaps is is an accident, or a coincidence. But is Microsoft really highlighting links to websites that have references to cracks
for Windows Vista? And you wonder why the piracy of Microsoft software is blooming.
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8.3.2007 Microsoft announces six new products in development
Microsoft today announced new products in development and is giving everyone a chance to test them. Here's a quick run-down as to what the new products are and how to beta test them for free!
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Security in Microsoft Products Chat
Join Mike Nash, Vice President for the Microsoft Security Business Unit, and his team of security experts each month. Microsoft is working hard to improve security and Mike and his team invite you to join them in a candid Q&A session.
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Microsoft products roadmap for FY08 and beyond
Oh boy, a Microsoft roadmap, haven’t seen one of these in a while. This is extracted from Steve Ballmer’s Powerpoint presentation at Microsoft Show and Tell (Financial Analyst Meeting) 2007 yesterday.
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2.8.2007 New Microsoft products for enterprise and small business
Microsoft touted two product rollouts on Monday, one a service pack aimed at attracting large corporate customers with remote offices; the other a licensing and services promotion for small businesses.
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Windows Embedded Server Products Evaluation
Wow finally you can download evaluation versions of Windows Embedded products like Storage Server, normally only approved OEMs could get it.
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27.7.2008 Windows 7 RTM Already Has 9,000 Logod Products
At just approximately a month after the general availability deadline of Windows 7, the operating system enjoys strong support from hardware and software companies worldwide.
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20.11.2009 Microsoft Unveils Details of First Products Under Zune Brand
Available this holiday season in the United States, Zune includes a 30GB digital media player, the Zune Marketplace music service and a foundation for an online community that will enable music fans to discover new music.
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15.9.2006 Microsoft Fixes Critical Flaw in Security Products
Software patches include critical fixes for bugs in Microsoft Office and the scanning engine used by the company's security products.
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14.2.2007 MSN Beta Team Recruiting for Windows Live Products
The MSN Beta team is currently recruiting likely candidates to test an array of new services and products from the Windows Live family.
Successful applicants may be asked to test MSN Messenger 8 (Windows Live Messenger) or future versions of Messenger. The countries range from Afghanistan to Turkey so everyone will be able to get involved.
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22.11.2005 Australian Daylight Savings Changes for Microsoft Products for the Year 2006
Overview
The Commonwealth Games are scheduled to be held during March 2006 in Melbourne Australia. Several Australian states including New South Wales, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory, South Australia and Tasmania, have changed the Daylight Savings transition end dates to the first Sunday of April 2006.
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20.12.2005 Microsoft: Turn Pirated Windows Copies into Genuine Products!
Microsoft is providing users with the means to turn their pirated copies of Windows into genuine products. However, the offer is only available for Windows XP, and not for Windows Vista.
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2.10.2007 Microsoft, ISVs Set To Ship Vista-Ready Security Products
Microsoft said this week that its security unit and top security ISVs -- including Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro -- plan to release Windows Vista-ready products and services on Jan. 30, when the operating system is due to become generally available.
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18.1.2007 New Windows Server 2008-Based Server Products Available
Windows Essential Server Solutions are basically designed as a bundle of SQL Server 2008, Exchange Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008, along with additional Microsoft technologies, set up as an all-in-one IT offering for small and midsize customers.
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13.5.2008 Downgrading Apple - the Windows Brand vs. the Windows Products
Microsoft is without a doubt diversifying the collection of resources behind the new $300 million Widows marketing campaign created by advertising agency Crispin, Porter + Bogusky.
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21.9.2008PC World names the 25 Most Innovative Products of the Year
PC World has put together a top 25 list of the most innovative products of the year 2007, noting the “Innovation”, the
“Benefit” and a brief overview of each. All entries on the list are somehow tech-related and all are available either in-store or online
right now. I personally can’t wrap my head around how the order of this list was devised, or how some products even made it on the list, but
I’m sure the reasoning is clear to someone. Have a look at the list and let us know what you think of it, and what your top 25 would be!
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29.12.2007Sony re-enters the glass tube business, with an innovative new speaker
Sony is a company well known for creating new and innovative products, and has done it again with a new transparent tube speaker that will be released
in Japan for a hefty price tag...
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30.05.2008Digital World Insider:
Innovative Tech Products
The new year should bring a
slew of interesting toys and
tools...
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16.12.20052009's 50 most innovative companies
The Fast Company has unleashed its list of the 50 most innovative companies for 2009. Innovation is a key nowadays to making (and more importantly,
selling) products, so making a top 50 list is certainly a grand achievement. Without further ado, here is the list. 1. Team Obama: Barack Obama made
the top position because his team innovated in his quest to become the next President of the United States. He employed the power of technology, using
Twitter and various other internet tools to connect with voters, doing what no other President has done fully before. 2. Google: Google continues to
make it to innovation lists, and with little wonder.
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21.02.2009Microsoft Innovation Center Japan Annual Report 2007-2008
This document introduces the activities of Microsoft Innovation Center from fiscal year of 2007 to 2008.
Microsoft Innovation
Center aims at contributing to the IT software industry in Japan by supporting software/hardware development companies, system integrators,
universities, entrepreneurs with innovative ideas, and individuals and organizations that plan to operate global businesses.
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addition, Microsoft Innovation Center will introduce innovative products and services by working together with Japanese companies with cutting-edge
technologies and products to operate global business.
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23.06.2008Windows Home Server Power Pack to enter public beta after a data bug
It's one of Microsoft's most innovative products, creating a new market for consumer level server management. But Windows Home Server has recently
suffered a few setbacks -- problems which may very well be addressed by a forthcoming beta...
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23.05.2008Blackberrys innovative touchscreen
RIM has finally decided to cast away their QWERTY keyboard origins that their phones had been named after, and replace it with a touchscreen version
for the Blackberry Storm. Engadget has posted a review of the new Blackberry Storm that introduces this new innovative touchscreen. The screen is
not only capacitive (multi-touch) like the iPhone, but also offers the ability to push in to the screen and create a 'click' action. This
technology called SurePress and allows a user to hover over an item before performing a decisive click. A common problem with touchscreen smart
phones was compatibility with existing web pages that use hover events to provide feedback.
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21.11.2008Siemens, Microsoft create joint venture
German engineering company Siemens AG said Friday it will work with Microsoft Corp. to develop communication, information, entertainment and
navigation products for vehicles.
"This new generation of automotive products will be designed to meet the industry's growing
demand for innovative, flexible and affordable solutions," the company said in a statement.
Financial details of the transaction
were not disclosed.
Siemens and Microsoft said they will deliver their products to the market faster than the typical automotive
industry's product development cycle. The first Siemens VDO product based on Microsoft software technology is expected to go into production as early
as 2009.
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07.09.2007Popfly Named to PC World Top 25 Most Innovative List
John Montgomery: This morning, PC World posted a story about the
top 25 most innovative products of 2007 and
Popfly made the list.
Needless to say, we're celebrating here at Popfly HQ, though I have to say that at 8:30AM on the Friday of Christmas week the "celebration"
consists of me having a cup of herbal tea and chuckling to myself while hoping that somebody else shows up before 10.
Adam, the architect who started Popfly,
has not only this good news to put under his tree, but also the fact that his book, "
WPF Unleashed" has been nominated for a
2007 Jolt Product
Excellence Award.
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28.12.2007Putting pen to e-paper: iRex iLiad ebook reader review
The iLiad ebook reader, from Dutch company iRex, hopes to slaughter the competition even as it carves a huge hole into your wallet. If you've been
holding off on ebook readers because they lack WiFi and the ability to scribble in the margins, you might want to welcome the iLiad inside your
gates.
Sadly, as the Odyssey reminds us, attractive and innovative mechanical products often hide some problems. You
won't be slaughtered in the night by rampaging Achaeanscertainly good newsbut you will have contend with some issues. But the iLiad has a lot to
like. Despite losing in the looks department to Sony, the iLiad is one of those products that make you realize just how incredible an entire category
could become once the price is right.
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19.02.2008Innovative Dual-core Notebooks
Debut at CES
Interested in a Centrino Duo
laptop? We've got the
low-down on a slew of new
models...
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09.01.2006Questions and comments about Firefox 3, IE 8, the future of
Web browsers, cloud computing, and how it all comes together.
Paul Thurrott: So it's always amusing to me when the mainstream press
tries to cover tech products, but I was particularly interested in
this one since I'm in
the middle of writing my own Firefox 3 review. I think that terms like "innovative" are thrown around too casually these days, and while I realize
the competitive advantages inherent in using terms like that, let's be honest here: Firefox 3 is excellent, but it's not innovative at all,
it's just an evolution of what browsers have always been. And that's fine, I guess. One thing this guy does get right, however, is that the
browser is increasingly important because it's the gateway through which we do and will in the future experience cloud computing
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27.05.2008A Brave New World of Computing
Microsoft's Next-Gen PC
Design Competition winners
create innovative designs that
take traditional PCs outside
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29.05.2007New Options for Editing,
Sharing Video
Innovative video services
shown at CES...
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08.01.2006Deeper inside IE8 Beta 2
It's increasingly looking like a whole new browser war is forming, as Microsoft is showing evidence of having re-entered the race to add innovative
features to the rapidly aging tool...
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28.08.2008Office for Mac 2008 packaging revealed
Long Zheng: It’s hard to believe the same people who released
Office for Mac 2004 in an
innovative and stylish round plastic case
that the rest of Microsoft has
only just adopted, is packaging the upcoming
Office for Mac 2008 release in a brown box carbon-dated to some time during the stone-age.
The Microsoft Mac BU have known to be much more innovative and
risk-taking than the rest of Microsoft. So either this is has to be Pandora’s box in disguise or they got drunk with the
Windows 3.1 guys one night.
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08.10.2007CES 2006: Show-Stopping Photos
From Day 3
A motorized pool float
(really!), a KickButt
computer, an innovative Skype
headset, and plenty of iPod
accessories highlight today's
photo gallery...
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06.01.200610 Futuristic User Interfaces
Good user interfaces are crucial for good user experience. It doesnt matter how good a technology is if we, designers, dont manage to make user
interface as intuitive and attractive as possible, the technology will hardly reach a breakthrough. To gain the interest in a new product or
technology, users need to understand its advantages or find themselves impressed or involved.
And here is where creative ideas
and unusual interface approaches become important. Innovative doesnt mean usable and usable hardly means innovative. As usual, its necessary to find
an optimal trade-off. And some user interfaces manage to achieve just that...
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18.08.2008Google to phase in offline access options for Docs
One of the most innovative additions that Google may be making to its applications suite would, in a bygone era, be one of the most basic features:
the ability to save locally...
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01.04.2008Dell Jumps Into VoIP With Microsoft, Nortel
Dell is maneuvering to snag its piece of the VoIP pie by selling unified communications products from Microsoft and Nortel Networks. In a partnership
unveiled Tuesday as part of the launch festivities surrounding Microsofts entrance into the unified communications market, Toronto-based Nortel said
Dell will sell its Enterprise Solutions portfolio, including its VoIP, data and wireless networking products.
Dell will also be selling
products developed jointly by Nortel and Microsoft via their Innovative Communications Alliance (ICA) unified communications partnership. A long-time
Microsoft partner, Round Rock, Tex.-based Dell will also be selling the new Office Communications Server 2007 and other unified communications
products launched by Microsoft this week in pre-tested configurations with its hardware.
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