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Friday, June 30, 2006

IE7 Beta3 Released

I should say I found IE7 Beta 2 to be OKAY though Microsoft had come up with more features like Favourites sidebar having 3 tabs: Favourities, RSS, and History; Simplified toolbars, Tabbed browsing, Zoom, Shrink to Print, RSS, Built-in search, Security, Antiphishing, Improved Internet security settings, Active X opt-in, Address bar in every window, IDN support, One click clean-ups, etc... Looks like, Microsoft has come up long way with much good work from their previous version IE6. So now after the release of IE7 Beta 3, we now got to see how and what developments have they made now. But till now, I should admit even my Firefox 1.5.0.4 has been fulfilling these features already.

Microsoft's RSS team has announced:

IE7 Beta 3 is here! We’ve snuck in some goodies in the feed reading user experience based on your Beta 2 feedback (keep the comments coming!). We are feature-complete for feed reading in IE7, but we’re still looking for feedback to make tweaks and fixes for the final release.

Going through the IE 7 FAQ's, it says:

Upgrading Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3
If you want to reinstall Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 (or install a newer version) you must first remove any existing Internet Explorer 7 beta versions on your system. You cannot install Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 over previously installed Internet Explorer 7 betas. To uninstall previous versions of Internet Explorer 7 refer to the uninstall directions below.

The IE team blog has some more details on this.

Let me now download the newer beta version of the Internet Explorer and again let me ask: "Will that happen to be a reason for me to switch back to IE for all reasons? I am waiting. Let me download now and start using."

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

FIFA World Cup 2006 Tracker spreadsheet available for download

A free Microsoft Excel spread sheet for tracking the FIFA World Cup 2006 - Germany is available on the Microsoft Office templates site. This template is very well programmed and after every match, we have to just enter the results it will do the rest and help you track the entire tournament. Download the file now and start supporting your favourite team.

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Microsoft Soccer Scoreboard for World Cup 2006

Microsoft has released Soccer Scoreboard for World Cup 2006, to enable the fans to track their favourite World Cup teams, get updates and details of matches, results, standings and status records of each player participating in the World Cup. You can also add a custom RSS feed to be shown in a ticker at the bottom, and adjust the transparency level. Latest tournament news, goals and schedules of upcoming matches will be brought to World Cup fans in real time. Once results are in, Scoreboard will automatically adjust the standings of selected favourite teams. Fans can then view their team's position by clicking on 'Standings'. Times and dates of upcoming matches will be localised to your local time by Scoreboard.

But remember only users of Genuine Microsoft Windows software will be able to download this application.

Saturday, June 10, 2006

Are you Windows Vista Ready?

Even though Microsoft announced the Windows Vista Hardware requirement, we may still have a few queries in back of our mind. My system has a similar configuration, but is that really compatible? or will I have to shell out my saved pennies in the piggy bank to buy completely new hardware?

Well, if you want to know if your PC is capable of doing the job well for supporting Windows Vista, let the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor do the job for you to analyze your system configuration and advise you on what action needs to be taken.

Upgrade Advisor is a free downloadable beta application of 4MB Size that tests your current PC and reports on how Vista-Ready you are! This will also advise you the version of Vista that will work best on your current configuration and also tell if any of your devices are incompatible.

Download now!