Microsoft adCenter Upgrade Highlights

This weekend, Microsoft adCenter will upgrade with new features. You’ll see improvements to the editorial review of your ads, increased reporting capabilities, and new campaign management features.

1. Instant editorial feedback on your ads and keywords during the creation process.

2. Receive one editorial e-mail per account per day for your newly disapproved ads or keywords with consolidated e-mail notifications.

3. Improved speed means your campaign updates can go live faster.

4. Intuitive reporting functionalities allow you to easily analyze and optimize your reports with interactive filtering, sorting, and graphs.

5. Flexible budgeting for your campaigns. Now you can set a daily budget target with a maximum spend per month.

6. Substitute default dynamic text to be used if your inserted keyword or placeholders cause the ad to exceed the maximum character limit.

Source: Microsoft adCenter Blog

How To Find Your Files Faster By Creating Search Folders

Find files faster by saving your most common searches. Here’s how:

1. Go to the Search Explorer in Windows Vista by clicking Start and then Search.

2. Design a search by typing your query in the search box. As you type, files from a variety of locations on your PC appear that match your text.

3. Once the search is completed, on the toolbar click Save Search.

4. In the File name box, type a name for the search, and then click Save. The search is saved in the Searches folders, which you can open by clicking the Searches link in the Navigation pane.

How To Speed Up Your Windows Vista Based PC’s Performance

Windows Vista features a new way to improve your PC’s performance: Windows Vista ReadyBoost. This feature lets you use flash memory on a universal serial bus (USB) 2.0 drive, Secure Digital (SD) Card, or Compact Flash to give you additional memory cache–memory that your PC can access more quickly than data on the hard drive. To take advantage of Windows ReadyBoost:

1. Insert a USB 2.0 memory drive with at least 512 MB of capacity.

2. When prompted, click "use this device to speed up my PC."

Source: Windows Vista Help and How-To

Microsoft (MSFT) today announced it’s first quarter results. The world’s largest software maker said net profit in its fiscal first quarter totalled $4.29 billion, or 45 cents per diluted share, versus $3.48 billion, or 35 cents per diluted share, a year earlier.

Microsoft Reports 27% Revenue Growth; Fastest First Quarter Since 1999

REDMOND, Wash. — October 25, 2007 — Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $13.76 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2007, a 27% increase over the same period of the prior year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $5.92 billion, $4.29 billion and $0.45, respectively.

“This fiscal year is off to an outstanding start with the fastest revenue growth of any first quarter since 1999,” said Chris Liddell, chief financial officer at Microsoft. “Operating income growth of over 30% also reflects our ability to translate revenue into profits while making strategic investments for the future.”

Microsoft profit rises on PC demand

Microsoft posted a rise in quarterly profit on Thursday, boosted by healthy demand for personal computers loaded with its Windows operating system and strong sales of its “Halo 3″ video game.

The world’s largest software maker said net profit in its fiscal first quarter totaled $4.29 billion, or 45 cents per diluted share, versus $3.48 billion, or 35 cents per diluted share, a year earlier.

Revenue rose 27 percent to $13.76 billion in the three months ended September 30.

Analysts, on average, had forecast 39 cents per share in first-quarter profit on revenue of $12.54 billion, according to Reuters Estimates.

Market research firms Gartner and IDC said global PC shipments rose about 15 percent in the September quarter, which helped Microsoft as well as the quarterly results of chip maker Intel.

Microsoft also enjoyed strong sales of “Halo 3,” the latest installment of its flagship shooter franchise. The blockbuster game title racked up more than $300 million in its first week of sales after its September 25 debut. Consumers also purchased the Xbox 360 console to play the game, vaulting the game machine past rival consoles in September.

For the current quarter, Microsoft forecast earnings in a range of 44 cents to 46 cents per diluted share on revenue of $15.6 billion to $16.1 billion.

Analysts, on average, were forecasting earnings per share of 44 cents a share on revenue of $15.5 billion in Microsoft’s fiscal second quarter, according to Reuters Estimates.

The holiday quarter is a crucial one for Microsoft as it aims to spur adoption of new computers running its latest Windows Vista operating system. Its entertainment arm also counts on the December quarter generating twice as much revenue as any other quarter of the year.

Microsoft also raised full-year earnings estimates to a range of $1.78 to $1.81 per share from a previous range of $1.69 to $1.73. It also raised its full-year revenue estimate range by almost $2 billion, to $58.8 billion to $59.7 billion.

Wall Street analysts, on average, were forecasting fiscal 2008 earnings of $1.73 per share on revenue of $57.3 billion.

As of the close of Wednesday trade, Microsoft shares had fallen about 1 percent since it reported quarterly results in July compared with 2 percent declines for both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq.

Source: Reuters

Microsoft launched its most anticipated Operating System Windows Vista back in January 30, 2007. Millions of PC Users are still using Windows XP and haven’t switched to Windows Vista. But Windows Vista is not Microsoft’s last Operating System.

Windows 7 (formerly code named Windows Vienna) is next version of Microsoft Windows. As you know Windows Vista took more than five years after the introduction Windows XP and that makes it the longest time span between two versions of Microsoft Windows. But this time Microsoft is planning to launch the next version of Windows Family "Windows 7′ within three years.

Microsoft says “As part of our ongoing outreach to enterprise customers and partners, Microsoft has begun sharing plans for how they will continue to deliver value to businesses in the future, including Software Assurance customers in particular. As part of this, we are sharing some preliminary information on Windows ‘7’ — the internal name for the next version of the Windows Client OS — as well as updates on other future Windows-related releases such as the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack. Microsoft is scoping Windows ‘7’ development to a three-year timeframe, and then the specific release date will ultimately be determined by meeting the quality bar. In the meantime, Microsoft is dedicated to helping customers deploy and get the most business value from their PCs using Windows Vista and related technologies like the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, and we’re encouraged by the response and adoption of these products so far.”

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On Beyond Vista: First Public Demo of Windows 7

Still hesitating about the big move to Vista? Maybe you’re best off waiting for Windows 7, the successor to Vista, which Microsoft is already hard at work on.

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Next Version of Windows Detailed

Millions of PC users haven’t even made the switch to Windows Vista yet, but that’s not stopping Microsoft engineers from getting to work on the next version. For now, It’s simply called Windows 7, as it will be the seventh iteration of the venerable (and frequently reviled) computer operating system (OS).

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Windows Seven: Think 2010

At Microsoft’s Global Exchange (MGX) annual sales conference in Orlando this week, Microsoft shared a bit more — albeit at a high level — on Windows Seven, according to a copy of a slide deck I saw that was distributed to the field sales force during the conference. Among the information shared was that Microsoft is anticipating it will take at least three years from now to get the next version of Windows client out the door.

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Windows gets a ‘Mini-Me’

It’s rare that anyone at Microsoft talks publicly about Windows 7, the next version of Windows. It’s even rarer that anyone provides actual information about what might be inside the operating system, which is still in the planning stages.

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Microsoft Shows Shaved-Down Kernel For Next Windows OS

The core code for Microsoft Corp.’s Windows OS is undergoing a rewrite to make it slimmer for use in a wide range of future products, including Windows 7, the OS that will succeed Vista.

I’ve just noticed that Gmail now offers more than 3 GB of Free Storage. So, come on Google update the Trash from “No conversations in the Trash. Who needs to delete when you have over 2000 MB of storage?!” to “No conversations in the Trash. Who needs to delete when you have over 3000 MB of storage?!”

Here are some interesting related stories:

Google Vows to Increase Gmail Storage Limit

Google is speeding up the rate at which it adds storage to Gmail due to increased storage requirements for attachments such as photos.

Microsoft Goes to 1 GB, Google Ups Gmail to 4 GB

Microsoft late Thursday announced its Windows Live SkyDrive service was being upgraded to support 1 GB of file storage – double what was previously available. Meanwhile, Google on Friday said it would “speed up” the counter increasing storage available to Gmail users, reaching 4 GB by the end of the month.

Gmail: 42 GB Free Storage by 2038

Gmail just revised their storage estimates for the next 1449 years. Googlified dug around in the code and discovered that you’ll be getting a tiny increase to 2912 MB on Friday, 4.2 GB by October 23, 6 GB by January 4 2008, 42 GB by 2038 and 2.70266701 × 1072 TB by 3456. Google has since since confirmed by on the Gmail blog that the counter’s speed has been increased.

Gmail’s Storage Increases, 6 GB in January 2008

Gmail will increase the free storage gradually in the next days. On October 23, you’ll get 4321 MB of storage, then the growth will slow down until January 4, when you’ll have 6283 MB of storage. From January 4, you’ll receive 3.3 MB every day, that’s 10 times bigger than the current rate of growth.

Never ever delete email, Gmail storage increases

Running out of Gmail space already? How would you like some additional storage space so that you never, ever have to erase anything ever again? Well, everyone’s wishes have been answered!

More Gmail storage coming for all

When people ask me about my job, one of the common questions I get is, “Where does Gmail put all that mail?” I generally answer by pointing them to a web site like this one. While that’s not exactly how it works, we do spend a lot of time working to make sure our users have all the space they need.

What is Microsoft adCenter?

Microsoft adCenter is a platform that enables you to create, manage and optimize your search marketing campaigns to targeted buyers from a pool of 99 million search users on the MSN and Windows Live Networks. 81% of them have recently purchased online, and they convert at a higher average rate than Google and Yahoo users in three out of five categories.

Make the most of your marketing budget

Online advertising isn’t just for big businesses with big budgets.
Keyword advertising can be an effective, low-cost way to get new
customers to find your business online. Microsoft adCenter makes
it easy to begin using paid search (also called keyword advertising). You can start with just a few keywords and build from there—and it only takes $5 to open an account.

Reach out to a qualified audience

Not all search engines bring the same audience, so the wise search marketer considers using more than one in his or her marketing tool bag. A little research can be of great help in determining where to start. Microsoft adCenter puts your ad in front of MSN search users, who converted to customers at a higher average rate than Google users in three out of five categories. It’s a qualified audience of proven buyers to whom you can start advertising your business when you sign up for adCenter.

Target your marketing efforts

By adopting adCenter’s targeting capabilities, you can reach out to the right audience at the right time and help improve your return on investment. Audience selection criteria helps improve your audience targeting strategy including with the ability to target based on geographical location, day of the week, time of day and age and gender.

Let Microsoft adCenter be the ticket to search marketing success for your small business

Microsoft adCenter is an advanced platform for online advertising— powerful enough to allow you to reach out to millions and millions of viewers on the MSN and Windows Live networks and precise enough to target your potential customers.

Get started right now

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Offer valid only through 06/30/2008 (midnight Pacific Time), while supplies last. Microsoft adCenter Promotion Code is valid only for new advertisers opening a new account with Microsoft adCenter. The $75 Microsoft adCenter Promo Code does not apply to the one-time, non-refundable $5 activation fee required to open a new adCenter account. Promotional credit not redeemed in click spend will expire 90 days after sign-up. Advertisers will be charged for advertising that exceeds the $75 promotional credit. Advertisers will need to suspend their ads if they do not wish to receive additional charges beyond the free credit amount or after 90 days from sign-up. Promotional credit good only to residents in the 50 United States and Washington, D.C. Limit: one promotional credit per customer. Promotional credit may not be combined with any other offer or discount, separated, redeemed for cash, transferred, sold, or bartered. There is a minimum bid requirement of $0.05 per click through. Search listings are subject to editorial review. See Advertiser Terms and Conditions for more details at sign-up. Other terms and conditions may apply.

Source: Start adCenter

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