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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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.

Microsoft plans to release new Windows Vista Updates via Windows Update this week. Microsoft also says that these updates will be included in the first Windows Vista Service Pack (SP1) which they plans to launch early next year. The patches increases the performance, reliability, and stability of the operating system.

It includes an update on system compatibility, reliability and stability which actually improves the battery life of Notebook PCs, increases the performance of wireless connections and also improves the response time of the operating system, an update to USB core components and an update to Windows Media Center.

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Windows Live Beta is no longer a Beta service. It’s out of Beta and it has got a new look. See the next generation of Windows Live here Windows Live. So Microsoft may soon offer @live.com email addresses. According to CNET Microsoft is offering @live.com email address at get.live.com. But I didn’t see anything there and I tried to Sign Up from hotmail.com but still only @hotmail.com choice is there. Well, I managed to get an @live.com email address long time back using a hack but unfortunately it’s no longer working. And I wonder whether my @live.com email address would work or not when Microsoft starts giving @live.com officially.

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