Anith Gopal

By Kristin Bockius , State & Local Government Social Media Marketing Manager The brand new Windows Phone 7 just recently hit the shelves, and already state and local government users are embracing the experience it brings together for both work and play.

No, really … it’s the I Love You, Man Download & Win Sweepstakes . Download the special Gamer Picture and the movie itself from Xbox LIVE Marketplace and you could win a trip for a winner and three guests to Las Vegas! It’s a sweet, sweet hangin’ Vegas vacation and you get to watch a hilarious movie starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel.

I’ve talked to you about the importance of the out of office message (OOF) before: In Crabby’s get-away-from-it-all checklist we went over the Out of Office Assistant (the feature — when you’re using Outlook with Exchange Server — that lets you create a reply message for e-mail sent to you while you’re away). I expressed the importance of turning this feature on before you leave the office so that the folks you work with won’t think you’re simply ignoring them. Then, in Plan your summer getaway…and…( read more )

What’s better than Fable II , the best-selling role-playing game for Xbox 360? Fable III , of course! Peter Molyneux announced the game at Gamescom in Germany and we have the details , including information on an episodic download release of the original Fable II

(If you’re here reading this, you have probably heard – more than once – about our upcoming award certificate template contest. But you haven’t heard it from me, so pay attention.) Here we are, at the mid-point in August when the thoughts of parents everywhere turn to… BACK TO SCHOOL! To mark this time-honored holiday — I mean tradition — we’re holding another template contest

Through the weekend, the Deal of the Week is that after you download a free trial of the FIFA 09 Ultimate Team Pack, you can get the full product for only 400 MS Points .

Available now on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, Madden NFL 10 is an exclusive demo for Xbox LIVE Gold subscribers in which you can take sides in one of the meanest rivalries in all of sports: The Dallas Cowboys against the New York Football Giants. Get online and get in the game this weekend to take advantage of this exclusive demo!

Another exciting opportunity to show off your skills, this time on Windows 7 https://www.code7contest.com/default.aspx?section=page4 . The prize is super grand, you get to fly to LA and be part of the Professional Developers Conference of Microsoft and not just that you also get to show case your winning app in front of millions of viewers

Hello from Diaperland! I’m still on maternity leave with my new baby. We’re at MCAS Cherry Point right now watching my husband’s promotion to Gunnery Sargent

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On Wednesday, Microsoft announced the Imagine Cup 2009 worldwide winners: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/jul09/07-07ImagineCup2009WinnersPR.mspx Congratulations to Team Biollel that took first place in the Parallel Computing Award for their “ Parallel implementation of maximum likelihood method of phylogenetic tree construction for protein amino acid sequences using Task Parallel Library ”!

5月のESECで私が担当したセッションで紹介した、MSDN Embedded Subscriptionの販売が7月1日付けで開始されました。 Editionの正式名称は、 Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition with MSDN Embedded Subscription です。ダウンロード可能なEmbedded系OSは、 Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 Windows Embedded Standard 2009 Windows Embedded NavReady Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 です。他にWindows Embedded Standard 2009向けのSilverlight 2もダウンロード可能です。サブスクライバダウンロードのページで上の製品が表示されない場合は、言語をEnglishにしてみてください。 また、既にSubscriptionのPremium Edition以上をご購入いただいている皆さんも Embedded系製品をダウンロードして、設計、開発、評価目的でお使いいただけます。 詳しくは、 http://msdn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/subscriptions/dd941868.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/japan/msdn/vstudio/subscriptions/ をご覧ください。 また、Embedded系OSに詳しくない方は、 http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/ja-jp/default.mspx をご覧ください。