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Sep

30

Chat About Windows and Microsoft Office with Microsoft MVP Experts

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My friends from the Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) Program asked me to pass this information on. They are hosting a online Q&A style chat open to anyone with our MVPs to discuss Windows 7 and Office 2010.

October 14, 2010
10:00 A.M. - 11:00 A.M. Pacific Time
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Would you like to learn more about the cool new features in Office 2010 and Windows 7 and what has changed since previous versions? Do you use Microsoft Office but would like to learn tips and tricks to be more productive at home, school or at work? Perhaps you are a new user who has questions on how to get started with Windows 7 or using the Office ribbon? Or would like to learn how to protect your computer from malware and viruses. Or perhaps you are just stuck and need answers.

The Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are here to help!

The MVPs are the same people you see in the technical community as authors, trainers, user groups leaders and answerers in the Microsoft forums. For the first time ever we have brought these experts together as a collective group to answer your questions live. MVPs will be on hand to take questions about Microsoft Office 2010 or Office 2007 products such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Project, OneNote and more. As well as the Windows 7 and earlier versions such as Windows Vista. In addition to Microsoft Office, the chat will cover Windows related topics such as upgrading, setup and installation, securing your PC, Internet Explorer, personalizing your computer desktop or having fun with Windows Live Essentials to share photos, make movies and more. All levels of experience are welcome from beginners and students to intermediate power users.

Please join us for this informative Q&A style chat and bring on your basic and your tough questions!

You can follow this on Twitter at #msmvpchat.

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Sep

30

Facebook chat added to Messenger in Canada, Australia, and 5 more countries today

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The new Messenger officially came out of beta today for over 300 million customers worldwide. We’re excited to announce that Facebook chat, one of the new features that made the Messenger beta so popular, is now available to 30.1 million Messenger customers in 7 additional countries: Canada, Australia, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, India, and Turkey. This doubles the number of customers who can now use Facebook chat in Messenger. These customers join 27.8 million others from the United States, United Kingdom, France, Brazil, Germany, and Russia, who have been able to use Facebook chat in Messenger since the Messenger beta refresh back in August. We’ll continue to introduce Facebook chat to more regions over time, as quickly as we can.

More than half of all Messenger customers also use Facebook. With the previous beta, you got a rich social view that brought together all your updates (including those from Facebook), and one place to see and comment on them. With Facebook chat integration in Messenger, you now also have one place to chat with all your friends. By connecting Facebook with Messenger, you get an always-on “people app” on your PC that gives you instant access and notifications as people come online in Facebook or Messenger.

Picture of Facebook chat in Messenger

As always, you’re in control of who you connect and share with on Windows Live. If you choose to connect your Windows Live Messenger account to Facebook, you can then choose what types of activities you want to allow, including chat. And of course, you can change your preferences at any time from your profile page.

If you do choose to turn on Facebook chat and updates in Messenger, those features are also available to you from other places you connect to Messenger, like from your Hotmail inbox, or from the Messenger iPhone app.

Download the new Messenger as part of Windows Live Essentials 2011 today.

We hope more of you will enjoy this deeper integration with Facebook, and we look forward to partnering with more leading services across the internet.

Jeff Kunins
Group Program Manager, Windows Live

Sep

30

Photo Fuse Fun – The “Jasons” Take Seattle

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Today we’ve made available the final release (or RTW – “release to web”) of Windows Live Essentials. I suggest reading Chris Jones’ blog post from earlier and of course downloading Windows Live Essentials! To celebrate the final release of Windows Live Essentials, I wanted to do a fun blog post about one of my favorite features. Problem is – I’ve got a pretty lengthy list of favorite features in the new Windows Live Essentials. However, late last week on Messenger because the new Messenger shows off photos my friends share on Windows Live (and Facebook and Flickr too), I caught a hilarious photo from my good friend Jason Moore that made me laugh. You may have read a few blog posts from Jason on SkyDrive and Office Web Apps on Inside Windows Live. His photo gave me the idea for this blog post. Because of that, I asked him to also help me with this post.

Photo Gallery, which is part of Windows Live Essentials, makes it super easy to edit and publish your photos. The new version of Photo Gallery introduces several new features such as facial recognition, improved retouch tools, and Photo Fuse. Jason is “mildly” silly and likes to do fun things with photos. As you can imagine, with the new Photo Gallery, Jason was able to do some pretty hilarious things with some of his photos – especially with Photo Fuse.

Photo Fuse was originally intended to help people create the perfect photo from multiple photos. Of course, Jason’s definition of the perfect photo is a little different. He was able to use it to create photos with multiple “Jasons” in them touring around Seattle. Case in point:

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The Jason on the left looks unimpressed and the Jason on the right looks quizzical. This wonderful photo of Jason… and Jason… is actually two photos “fused” together.

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What Jason did was set a camera up on a tripod and with a friend took a few shots close together. A tripod is handy to ensure things don’t move or change abruptly in the photos ensuring the best “fused” photo possible – but it’s not necessary.

Here is another good example – this time a little more creative:

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The “Jasons” pretend to hold up the famous Pike Place Market neon Public Market sign. Teamwork!

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In this shot, at Pike Place Market, the “Jasons” stop by a vendor stand looking at some fresh produce. The Jason on the right is of course impressed with the produce. However, the Jason on the left looks like he wonders what he’s doing here.

You’re not just limited to “fusing” two photos together. You can actually fuse quite a few photos together and multiple times to do some really interesting things. Look at this:

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There are now 5 “Jasons” and they visited the Fremont Troll here in Seattle.

As you can see from the “Jasons” – you can do some funny and creative things with Photo Fuse. Download and give the new Windows Live Essentials a spin and check out Photo Fuse. Would love to see some creative uses for Photo Fuse just like what Jason has done. Leave a comment and link to some of your Photo Fused photos!

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