Microsoft has cut the price of its Zune media player by US$50 on September 04, 2007. Now the price of the 30 GB Microsoft Zune Media Player falls below the $200 mark and now it is priced at $199. The price cut was done on the same day Apple unveiled new iPod with Wi-Fi.

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Windows Live Writer from Microsoft is a free desktop application that makes it easy to publish rich content to your blog. It helps you create and format blog posts with rich content like maps, tables, hyperlinks, tags, and categories.

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Free $50 $75 Microsoft adCenter Promotional Coupon Credits

Start advertising online with Microsoft today and get a $75 credit for ad clicks. All you need is $5 to start an account today. Use the Promo Code displayed at the Sign Up page.

What is Microsoft adCenter?

Microsoft adCenter is a platform that lets you create, manage, and optimize your search advertising campaigns to targeted buyers, which you select from a pool of 99 million search users on the MSN and Windows Live networks.

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Microsoft continuously improves Windows Vista® by providing ongoing updates while working with software and hardware vendors to deliver application compatibility and device driver improvements. Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) will be another vehicle through which Microsoft provides operating system improvements to customers.

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Microsoft Corporation on wednesday announced it has agreed to acquire Chicago-based Parlano, maker of MindAlign, a leading application for enterprise group chat. Microsoft expects to add Parlano’s group chat functionality as a new feature of Microsoft® Office Communications Server and Microsoft Office Communicator, Microsoft’s server and client software for presence, instant messaging, conferencing and VoIP.

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Microsoft on tuesday released  an update that improves the performance and reliability of Windows Vista. I have tried that but I didn’t see any tweak in performance. Now its your turn, try that and post the result here.

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What is Tafiti according to Microsoft?

Tafiti, which means "do research" in Swahili, is an experimental search front-end from Microsoft, designed to help people use the Web for research projects that span multiple search queries and sessions by helping visualize, store, and share research results. Tafiti uses both Microsoft Silverlight and Live Search to explore the intersection of richer experiences on the Web and the increasing specialization of search.

Tafiti, is an experimental demonstration site that combines Live Search with Silverlight and has just been launched. Here is the screen shot of the  search results.

Tafiti uses Silverlight 1.0 RC and AJAX to provide rich, cross-platform user experiences.