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• Microsoft® Popfly™ is the fun, easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, games, Web pages, and applications.
  Popfly is the fun, easy way to build and share mashups, games, gadgets, Web pages, and applications. Popfly consists of a set of online visual tools for building Web pages and mashups, and a [...]
• About hierarchical discussions in Groove
  To engage in a detailed exchange of ideas with other members of a workspace, it's best to use a Groove Discussion Tool. A typical discussion includes a main topic with one or more responses, and [...]
• Microsoft Releases Silverlight 2
  Microsoft announces new rich Internet applications development and streaming media features; company outlines plans for supporting Windows, Mac and Linux tools for developing Silverlight [...]
• About chatting in Groove
  Chatting takes place in Groove within the context of a workspace. Workspace members open a chat window to exchange quick chat entries. Although workspace members could chat about any topic, chat [...]
• Windows Media Center: SportsLounge
  If you like watching sports, you'll love Windows Media Center SportsLounge.1 Included in Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows Vista Ultimate, this rich portal takes your sports television viewing [...]
• Ways to discuss things in Groove
  Groove provides a number of different ways to share ideas and carry out conversations. Specifically, you can chat, exchange instant messages, or carry out detailed discussions in a response [...]
• Gaming by the people, for the people
  Microsoft's Community Games service aims to 'democratize' games Courtesy of Winda Benedetti, Citizen Gamer for Microsoft Games. I’m not sure what to make of “FunnyDancing.” Cue up this [...]
• Create a catalog merge with Microsoft Publisher 2007
  Publisher features templates that you can use to create a short catalog. Just choose a catalog template, and then replace the placeholder pictures with your own and type in the text that you [...]
• Landmark Research Study
  Is Launched to Assess Impact of Personal Genetic Testing. Scripps Translational Science Institute, Navigenics, Affymetrix and Microsoft team on groundbreaking health study. A consortium of health [...]
• Creating a new Access database from an Excel spreadsheet in Office 2003
  From Microsoft Office Online: The procedure in this article creates a new database by first exporting data from the Northwind.mdb sample database into Microsoft Excel, and then getting that [...]