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Microsoft recently released a free Education Pack for Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. The coolest part to my mind is:
Equation Writer
Now it’s easy to add mathematical expressions to your papers. Handwrite a math equation, and then convert it into a neatly typewritten image to paste into a report or a presentation.
Emily Rimas has a video demo on Channel 9.
Microsoft Corp. today introduced controls and new sample code for Microsoft® Office Live Communications Server 2005, designed to make it easier for developers to combine presence and real-time collaboration capabilities with line-of-business applications. Software providers, such as BrightWork, K2.net, Meridio Inc., OSIsoft Inc., Siebel Systems Inc. and Singularity Ltd., are integrating presence and real-time collaboration features into their productivity and line-of-business applications to help make workers more productive and help people communicate more efficiently across organizations of all sizes.
Tightly abstracting:
Controls and new samples include these:- Presence Controls for Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 (previously called Real-Time Collaboration Presence Toolkit) enable developers using Microsoft Visual Studio® development system to easily insert presence icons into applications to provide status information of contacts.
- Role Agent Sample for Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 provides a sample implementation of role-based instant messaging and presence.
- Custom Alerting Application Sample for Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 shows how to build an application that allows team members to determine whether other team members are online, and to send an instant notification to those members.
There are also details on what each of the partners is doing with “presence.”
Microsoft blogger “NathanA” has the details:
WSE 3 Beta has been released on MSDN here. It requires the VS2005 August CTP. As always, we love to hear your feedback.
For some background see the paper by Mark Fussell titled What’s New in Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0.
Almost overlooked with the buzz over the the announcement of Google Talk and MSN Messenger 7.5, Skype also released IM developer tools:
VoIP giant Skype is now letting Web sites and other Internet applications tap into the pool of people using the Luxembourg-based company’s instant-messaging service.
The company on Wednesday unleashed its SkypeWeb and SkypeNet developer tools. By doing so, the company says, it’s opening up its platform to people who wants to integrate Skype Instant Messaging–a lesser-known feature of Skype–into their applications.
Gene Koprowski has some analysis of the whole IM scene.
