Archive for March, 2011

Supercharged Spreadsheets – PowerPivot in Office 2010Microsoft – Channel 9 (blog)If you'd like a lower bitrate version, to reduce the download time or cost, then choose the Medium Quality WMV file. If you have a Zune, iPhone, or iPod device, choose the MP4 file. If you just want to hear the audio of the video, [...]

The Guardian Amazon vs Apple for the future of entertainmentTechRadar UKOne of those niche players is likely to be Microsoft, whose Zune Pass is hardly setting the Xbox alight; another will probably be Spotify, which still hasn't launched in the US. Spotify's problem appears to be the record companies: while Sony and EMI …Founders Of [...]

Celebrity Column: NFL players can't catch Kenny Chesney stadium showsAsheville Citizen-TimesOn behalf of Microsoft and its employees, the men donated 30 Zune mp3 players to the hospital to be used as birthday presents for teens who must spend their big day confined to a hospital bed. "We are extremely grateful for the support of Lee [...]

Fox News Founders Of MP3.com, mSpot On Amazon's Music Locker: All Eyes On The LabelsTechCrunch… explaining that his music locker service works on iOS devices, WebOS and Windows Phone 7 handsets, offers radio stations, comes with auto-synching and offline playback and offers support for any music store, including iTunes, Napster and Zune. …Amazon vs Apple [...]

The problem with Microsoft…FortuneThe MP3 player, the Zune, has proved a dud. And then there's Microsoft's costliest blunder, its also-ran status on the device that is emerging as the personal computer of the 21st century, the mobile phone. "We were ahead of this game, and now we find …and more » More: continued here