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Bing home with a background

Bing home without a background

http://www.bing.com/?rb=0

Have you checked out the Bing Ultimate Resource Page?

Windows 7 will be made available off shelf from October 22, 2009. That’s for sale to the public. This date does not apply to MSDN subscribers or TechNet subscribers!

Yay!

For us folks (MSDN / TechNet subscribers) Windows 7 RTM is expected to be made available in the week of July 13, 2009.

Bink reports that Microsoft has set July 13, 2009 as the “sign-off” date.

Sign off is the process where all divisions sign that they agree on the final code, which means the actual RTM build will be created a few days earlier, which is targeted on July 10th.

Microsoft have released a limited beta of their new antivirus application – Microsoft Security Essentials Beta.

This beta is available only to customers in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel (English only), People’s Republic of China (Simplified Chinese only) and Brazil (Brazilian Portuguese only).

I am based in Australia and have just finished downloading this using my U.S based Live ID.

Microsoft Security Essentials Beta can be downloaded from Microsoft Connect web site.

Download

As can be  seen, there are 3 separate downloads for you, depending on your version of the operation system

The next Windows 7 TechNet Live event will be on Windows 7 Deployment. 

Windows 7 Deployment Enhancements

Date:  Friday, July 3rd 2009 
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM (AEST)

Event Overview

This session will focus on Windows 7 enhanced deployment capabilities.

Explore

• Virtual Hard Disk Image Management and Deployment,
• Dynamic Driver Provisioning, and
• Multicast Multiple Stream Transfer functionality that is used with Windows Deployments Services for operating system deployments.

Discuss

• Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows 7 which includes Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) to create Windows 7 deployment packages.

I have downloaded the TweetDeck app for the iPhone and am impressed. I have been using tweetie for a while now, but I think TweetDeck will (probably has) take(n) over!

View the Full Album of shots taken on my iPhone!

TweetDeck Desktop Version

In addition to the iPhone App, TweetDeck has also released a new version of TweetDeck for the desktop, with lots of new features including sync with the iPhone app and in the cloud.

To quote from the source, highlights of TweetDeck