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Microsoft have announced the completed settlement of its tender offer for Fast Search & Transfer ASA, a leading provider of enterprise search solutions. FAST will operate as a Microsoft subsidiary, with a dedicated enterprise search research and development center in Oslo, Norway, and offices throughout the world.

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With the Live Mesh SDK, you'll be able to build applications that:

• Use the Live Mesh sync service to synchronize files, data, and applications across all the devices in a user's mesh - even in scenarios where devices are only occasionally connected to the service.
• Use the Live Mesh member service to provide file- and data-sharing experiences to anyone.
• Extend the Live Desktop experience to deliver applications that are accessible from anywhere.
• Plug in to the Live Mesh news feed system to generate notifications for key activities in your application.

If you'd like to be one of the first to test and evaluate these platform services, please apply here.

The Live Mesh (Technology Preview) has been launched.

From the Live blog ...

There's been a bunch of buzz about "the mesh" since Ray Ozzie alluded to it at last month's MIX Conference. As Ray said there, we've been exploring the concept of 'the mesh' for a couple of years now.

We started by asking ourselves a series of questions about our own digital lifestyle experiences, and examining the role of the web in our lives. We examined many of the ways the web is becoming more central to us - both workstyle and lifestyle. We're friending, twittering, digging, tagging and linking to stay in touch, share photos, be entertained, meet new people, express our opinions, learn, and the list goes on.

Devices are how we interact in this new "web connected" world and we use a variety of them, including PCs, laptops, media devices, phones, digital picture frames, game consoles, music players and the list grows at every CES. However, as we discover, adopt and use more of these digital devices, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep the people, information and applications we depend on in sync.

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Live Mesh - Technology Preview

Watch the interview with Ray Ozzie introducing Live Mesh on Channel 9
Watch an interview with Abolade Gbadegesin on Live Mesh Architecture on Channel 9
Watch the demo of the Live Mesh application on Channel 10

GTA IV is a fantastic title to showcase how great the Xbox 360 is ... amazing graphics & gaming experience, easy it is to play with your friends on Xbox LIVE, Achievements to aim for and the exclusive extra episodic content that will only be available for download on Xbox 360.

Forefront Security for SharePoint with Service Pack 2 is released.

The goal of this release is to provide support for the new Windows Server 2008 platform, expand the keyword filtering capabilities by including installable lists to help customers filter out profanity and discriminatory words in 11 languages, and provide a roll-up of software fixes that help facilitate the administration of this security solution.

Organizations should upgrade to Forefront Security for SharePoint with Service Pack 2 if they are moving to Windows Server 2008 or want to take advantage of the new installable profanity and discriminatory keyword lists.

From MOSS WebCM topgun Andrew Connell ...

I've created a Visual Studio tool window that would do some of the work for me. First and foremost, the primary objective was to help in the customization and content creation of structures needed in a Visual Studio project used for SharePoint development. Second, it was to eliminate the chance for typos and trivial errors. Third, to eliminate repetitive tasks and free me up to do the more complex stuff.

Announcing AC's VS SharePoint Project Utility Tool Window

Ive updated my SharePoint 2007 Overview deck ... slides are here

18 hours of free, deep technical training about Enterprise Search with SharePoint technologies

Enterprise Search Training

An Add-In for Outlook 2007 which allows you to view and interact with your entire contact list from Office Communicator 2007.




Business users spend a majority of thier day in Outlook, why should they have to toogle back and forth from Outlook & Communicator? This Add-In allows those business users to keep working in Outlook as well as view presence, call or instant message thier contacts.

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OpenXML has been approved as an international standard.

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ISO/IEC DIS 29500 receives necessary votes for approval as an International Standard