Microsoft is planning a Public Preview Beta of Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP on Wednesday, May 17th. Users will be able to download the beta from here.
AOL to launch free AIM phone service May 5, 2006
By the end of this month America Online plans to launch AIM Phoneline, a free service that will let AOL Instant Messenger users receive incoming calls from any phone. As we all know, Voice over instant messaging is not a new concept and is already available in Yahoo and MSN Messengers.
What makes it interesting is that AIM Phoneline would be the first to offer a free phone number. An AOL spokesman said, users will be able to pay $14.95 a month to upgrade to AIM Phoneline Unlimited, which would allow them to make calls to any number in the U.S. and 30 other countries.
Source: ZDNet News
IE 7 Beta 2 Breaks Outlook Web Links
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 is reported to break Web links in messages received in at least two versions of the Outlook email client. This problem has been discussed on IE newsgroups on Microsoft’s support site. The preoblem seems to affect Outlook 2000 and 2003.
If a user chooses any other browser other than IE as the default, IE 7 Beta 2 prevents Outlook from launching a browser from an email link. Switching the default browser to IE 7 corrects the problem.
Source: TechWeb
Vista Feature Will Enhance Online Newspaper Reading May 4, 2006
Even if you’re reading All the News That’s Fit to Print on an ultra-mobile computer, it may soon look and feel the same way it does spread out with your morning coffee — minus the ink-stained fingers, perhaps. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, appearing at the American Society of Newspaper Editors conference in Seattle, showed off a new feature of Microsoft’s forthcoming Windows Vista operating system that promises improved “on-screen reading.”
He shared the podium Friday with Arthur Sulzberger Jr., publisher of The New York Times, which is partnering with Microsoft to develop a prototype application dubbed Times Reader. Microsoft plans to release development tools by the end of this summer for other newspapers and “whoever wanted to do these things,” Gates said.
Read more at Seattle Times
