Microsoft Office 2010 – Video Tour.

Microsoft Corp. on Monday made the latest edition of its Office software suite available for testing and plans to make key applications such as Word and Excel available over the Web -- acknowledging burgeoning competition from Internet giant Google Inc. and others. Microsoft has been very social with their Office 2010 introductions, and YouTube is full of introductory videos to Office 2010. Check out the ones that most likely matter most to you below. |

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Windows 7 Glimpses.

Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer talked a little bit about Windows 7. But just a little bit. Speaking at the All Things D conference, Ballmer, Gates, and Microsoft's Julie Larson-Green demonstrated some of the features that will be included, including support for Surface-like multi-touch technology. A couple of high profile web sites have been claiming they have some new leaked screenshots of the Windows 7 interface. But as blogger Long Zheng points out, it appears that these images were just concept drawings from someone guessing what the new OS might look like.

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Instan-T: Voice, video and text chat client for Google, AOL, MSN, and Yahoo!

There are plenty of utilities that let you keep in touch with all of your contacts regardless of the IM platform they're using. But while we love Digsby, Trillian, Pidgin, and Adium most of the time, there are a few features missing from those apps:

• Support for voice and video chats
• The ability to invite friends from different IM networks into a single chat room

And that's where Instan-T comes in. This multi-protocol chat client for Windows supports AOL, Google, Yahoo!, and MSN Messengers. It also supports voice and video chat across each network

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MS Office Templates that don't suck much !

Free Office Templates offers some well-designed Microsoft Office Templates. Not the best collection in the world but definitely worth a look.

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Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope Released

Microsoft has released its highly anticipated Worldwide Telescope software, which can be used by astronomers and non-astronomers alike to explore the heavens with a desktop client akin to Google Earth.

We’ll have a detailed review up shortly. Until then, head over the site and download your copy for free (Windows only).

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Windows PowerShell 1.0 released

Earlier this week Microsoft released the final version of Windows PowerShell 1.0. PowerShell, formerly known as Monad, is a powerful text-based command shell for Windows, basically the command prompt on steroids. There's a wealth of information at Microsoft's TechNet web site as well as the official PowerShell blog.

Microsoft is trying hard to push PowerShell adoption, however, with a script repository and a scripting sweepstakes in which 12 Xbox 360s are being handed out.