Yearly Archives: 2009

Microsoft Office 2010 and Exchange 2010

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Microsoft today announced their upcoming releases on Office Products. Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010.

Though Exchange 2010 beta is now released and available for public download at Microsoft’s site, the final release will be available on last quarter of 2009.

Microsoft Office 2010, including Office Web Applications, SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010, will enter a Technical Preview in the third quarter of 2009 and will release to manufacturing in the first half of 2010.

The term “Technical Preview” made us to belive that Microsost will not release any beta for Office 2010, rather, it’ll will be given to workers in Microsoft’s largest corporate accounts as well as ‘run-of-the-mill’ consumers.

Its confirmed that Microsoft will start shipping of both the 32bit and 64bit of the Office 2010 in second quarter of 2010.

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Microsoft Stops Support for Windows XP and Office 2003

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Microsoft finally announced the stop of mainstream support for Windows XP and Office 2003. From April 14, 2009 onwards, they will stop supporting these two products officially and will not release any upgrade pack.

The list contails all versions of Windows XP and Office 2003. Like,

  • Windows XP Home
  • Windows XP Professional (Both 32bit and 64bit)
  • Windows XP Media Center Edition
  • Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
  • Office 2003 (Both Home and Student)
  • Office 2003 Professional

They have set the End of Sales date on June 30, 2010. So, the products released in between will contain the latest updates and all. Currently we have Service Pack 3 for both of the products.

The last Service Pack for Office 2003, SP3 was released in September 2007. The Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter will continue to receive updates with new junk email definitions through the end of the extended support phase.

The mainstream support phase for Microsoft products usually runs for 5 years after the release of the product. As per the Microsoft Support Lifecycle, mainstream support delivers free fixes for security patches and other bug fixes to everyone. Extended support delivers security updates to all users, but nonsecurity hot fixes are to be provided only to companies that have signed support contracts (purchase of Extended Hotfix Support Agreement and per-fix fees) with Microsoft. Self-help online support will continue to be available for a minimum of 12 months after the product reaches the end of its support lifecycle.

Extended support for both Windows XP and Office 2003 ends on April 8, 2014.

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Playing DVD Video in Windows Media Player

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Windows Media Player can not play DVD videos by default. You have to purchase other softwares for playing DVDs or Blue Ray Disks in your PC or Laptop.

But, there’s another free Multimedia Player available which can play anything you through at it with a little help from codecs like FFDShow. That is VLC Media Player from VideoLAN. Thats another story, we are here to discuss playing DVDs in Windows Media Player.

After some time waste and research, I found a working and free way of playing DVD’s in Windows Media Player. It’s a codec called WECP (Windows Essential Codec Pack), though it contains lots of unessential codecs to dump your PC. Download it here or from the link below the post. I am gonna give you a step by step guide to install it without unnecessary codecs.

Double Click on the installer package and then Click Next > I Agree. Remove check on Auto Update Service and Media Player Classic. Expand the Video Codecs by clicking on the + sign. Now uncheck the FFDshow, Cinepack and MPV Decoder. Now click on Next > Install > Finish. Reboot your PC.

Now insert a DVD in the drive and choose Play DVD in Windows Media Player from autorun option. You can also play it manually. Its a old version of the codec pack and Cyberlink DVD decoder is built in. Its removed in latest versions as Cyberlink made it paid, so, disabling auto update is mandatory.

You can now install the latest version of FFDShow to play other types of media such as DivX, AVI, FLV.

Download the WECP 1.0 Here.

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