Now it is the time of year ending, where we looking back on last 365 days and making sense to know what the year was all about. Do will call the year as “year of Social Networks” considering the bang of sites a like Del.icio.us, Digg, Technorati, Furl, Yahoo MyWeb, BlogMarks, LQBookmarks, FeedMarker, Frassle, Linkroll, Loom, MyProgs, Reader², Reddit, Scuttle, Unalog, CiteULike, Connectedy, StumbleUpon. Or do will call it as the “Year of Improved Search” considering the development made in the searches of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Ask.com. Some of them may also call it as the “Year of SEO closing” considering the augment to personalized and custom-made search results has changed the way search marketers go about their jobs.

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Great news for Affiliate Marketers! Microsoft adCenter has recently exposed its new Affiliate Program. Microsoft Affiliate Program another effective way to make money online such as Google’s AdSense, Commission Junction, Yahoo Publisher Network and others. For every advertiser you refer to adCenter, Microsoft will pay a bounty of $35 per sign up (according to some reports). This is purely a referral program where new advertiser brought to Microsoft Pay-Per-Click advertisement program will be rewarded.

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Sign up for Microsoft adCenter today and kick start your first PPC ad campaign. Microsoft adCenter is easy, quick and more effective than any other PPC Networks like Google AdWords and Yahoo Search Marketing in terms of return on investment. But the amount of traffic it drives is low but it’s of high quality hence the conversion rates are better than Google and Yahoo.

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I was looking for a way to backup all my Internet Explorer Passwords. Today, I have got a solution for the same. Many thanks to Google Search.

Don’t Re-enter Your Password With Internet Explorer (IE)

Most of them may not know this – Internet Explorer could save your beloved passwords for different web pages, you are nowhere required to keep re-entering it. On the other hand, if your computer is as well shared with other users, such as family members, or you are frightened about security system, you could configure Internet Explorer not to save your passwords.

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Windows Vista’s biggest worry is not Apple’s Mac or Red Hat Linux it’s Microsoft’s own Windows XP.

"The big story isn’t that 32% of the companies we surveyed said that they would start Vista deployments by the end of next year," says an analyst at Forrester Research Inc.

The survey was conducted on 600 U.S and European companies which have more than 1,000 employees. Then survey discovered that 84% of their Personal Computers run Windows XP and not Windows Vista. And in fact it’s up 26%. Last year only 67% of the PC’s used Windows XP.

There are many companies looking forward to Windows XP SP3 and at the same time there are companies waiting for the Windows Vista SP1 to happen before they upgrade. According to Microsoft the Windows XP SP3 will be the last service pack for Windows XP.

Source: PC World

Microsoft has released Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate Preview with more new features to beta testers through Microsoft Connect. Windows Vista SP1 RC is currently available for download from the Microsoft Connect website for 15,000 SP1 testers.

“The RC Preview incorporates feedback from users in our beta program, including changes to the setup and installation experience,” one of the Microsoft executive said via e-mail.

She added that “We will release a [release candidate] of SP1 to a broader group of testers soon,” the spokeswoman added. “And we are targeting the first quarter of 2008 to release SP1 to manufacturing.”

Microsoft is planning to release the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to public via Windows Update in the first quarter of 2008. Many organizations are waiting for it’s release before upgrading to Windows Vista.

At last after two months I got the welcome email to Live Search Webmaster Tools Private Beta. It also says that resending this invite, as some email addresses may not work. Anyway you try for yourself.

Thank you for participating in the Live Search Webmaster Tools Beta! Your patience is greatly appreciated as we obtained authorization for your access to the tools.

Accessing the Webmaster Tools

You are now authorized to use the Live Search Webmaster Tools Beta and begin testing. Please access the beta here (this URL is also posted on the Connect site):

http://webmaster.live.com/

Follow the “Webmaster tools (beta)” link on this page.

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