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Released: Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3

Close on the heels of Exchange 2010 SP 1 beta, Microsoft has just released Exchange 2007 SP 3. You can download the service pack from the download center. Exchange 2007 SP3 adds compatiblity for Windows Server 2008 R2 to Exchange 2007. With SP3, you can also install Exchange 2007 administration tools on Windows 7 clients. […]

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Released: Windows Live Messenger for iPhone

Driving to the Silicon Valley Campus (SVC) this morning, I was thinking about about the possiblities of an iPhone version of Microsoft Office Communicator — the Instant Messaging and soft phone client for Office Communications Server. Microsoft already ships Microsoft Messenger, an OCS client for the Mac OS, so a mobile client for the iPhone […]

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Office 2010 Hits Retail Stores

Starting today, Microsoft Office 2010 is available in retail stores. As I’ve indicated in some previous posts, I’m a big fan of Office 2010, particularly of Outlook 2010 which now has the pervasive ribbon UI and overall a great user experience. Another favorite is OneNote 2010, an Office app that’s become as essential as Outlook, […]

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Office Web Apps on the iPad?

With yesterday’s launch of Office Web Apps on SkyDrive, and the ability to access it on mobile web browsers, could the iPad be far behind? Viewing Office docs in Office Web Apps is possible on the iPad but CNET’s Ina Fried was able to trick it to allow creation of Excel spreadsheets in the iPad’s […]

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Microsoft Office, Welcome to the cloud

Micrsoft Office is live in the cloud! In a blog post (read Office is now live on SkyDrive on the Windows blog), Microsoft’s Jason Moore announced the launch of Office Web Apps on SkyDrive— Microsoft’s free cloud-based storage service, which provides users up to 25 Gb. of storage space to store documents, photos and videos. […]

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Released: Exchange Sever 2010 SP1 Beta

Microsoft has released Exchange 2010 SP1 Beta. You can download it from the download center. Microsoft also announced Exchange 2007 SP3 is still on track and will be available soon. The download link above is for the beta version of Exchange 2010 SP1. It’s not recommended to deploy beta software in a production environment. What’s […]

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Windows 7 reaches the 100 million mark

Ten days after Windows 7’s October 22 launch, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said: Certainly we’ve seen initial sales be fantastic. The first ten days were bigger than the first ten days of XP or Vista or any other Windows launch that we have done. All Things Digital’s John Paczkowski responded with Well, What Did You […]

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Office 2010 RTMs

Office 2010, the wave 14 release of Microsoft Office, has been released to manufacturing (RTM) today. Congratulations to the Office team – using this shiny new version of Office is a pleasure! There’s lot to like in all of the Office apps – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, Project— and Outlook 2010 really shines! There’s […]

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Announced: Exchange 2010 SP1, Beta in June

Microsoft has just announced Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1! A beta of the feature-laden SP1 is headed your way come June 2010. Some of the juicy new features in SP1 include the ability to locate the Personal Archive on a different mailbox database than the one where the user’s primary mailbox is located (a […]

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Geek Out With Perry: New Video Series and Blog

It’s been over two months since I posted here! No, I’m not taking a break– at least not an intentional one, and hopefully will get back to posting regularly soon. Meanwhile, check out the posts on You Had Me At EHLO… (the Exchange team blog). And if you’ve been monitoring the team blog, you must […]

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