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Microsoft wants to bring a big smile on your faces this holiday season. From the very next day after Thanksgiving, Microsoft will uncover lots of hot deals on their online Microsoft Store. Here is a glimpse of what’s coming:

» Free Lenovo S10 netbook upon buying a Lenovo T400 or X301 notebook, or A600 All-in-one desktop PC.

» Free ground shipping on everything for a limited period of time.

» $70 Discount on Office Home & Student 2007. Now available at just $79.99. Or save almost $80 on Office Small Business Edition.

» Buy an Xbox Elite Console and get 3-month subscription to Xbox LIVE FREE.

» 30% off on selected Xbox accessories.

» Get $50 discount on HP Photosmart Printer.

» Buy an Xbox Premium Console + Beatles Rock Band and Save $50.

» Buy any desktop or laptop (Netbooks excluded) and get $50 discount on any monitor.

These deals are worth a loot and are certainly for a limited period of time. Go to Microsoft Store for more details.

Deals start at 12:01 AM EST Friday, November 27, 2009.

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Today’s technological scenario is all about integration and making every task simpler and every information easily accessible. Well, similar are the thoughts of UXLabs at Microsoft. They have created a very sleek Facebook client application that brings the complete Facebook experience right on your Windows desktop – Fishbowl.

Although in a ‘trial’ (beta) stage, Fishbowl offers some features that surely will excite Facebook power users. Apart from the seamless integration with Facebook, here are some of the plus points of Fishbowl:

» Fishbowl offers mini-mode which is more fun and less obtrusive.

» Smooth user interface and sleek navigation. It supports drag n’ drop pictures to publish them on Facebook. Furthermore, it can go full screen and play a slideshow of your albums.

» You can update your status, view your friends’ albums, their updates, news-feeds and other notifications.

» “Interest Level”, my favorite feature, helps you filter your stream anonymously in order to avoid boring updates from friends.

» If you are a Windows 7 user, you can monitor your Facebook stream right from your taskbar using jumplists.

If you want to give it a try then click the link below.

Download Fishbowl / 6.6mb

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Microsoft SyncToy needs no introduction. It is an excellent freeware utility that syncs files and folders and is mostly used for sharing multimedia and documents across computers and also used for backing up important data.

Microsoft has released its updated version, SyncToy 2.1, with some new features and improvements to meet the Windows 7 standards. The new SyncToy 2.1 has native 64bit support and is available for both (x86 and x64) architectures.

SyncToy 2.1’s help section enlists these new features:

» New Platform: SyncToy 2.1 uses the latest synchronization engine from Microsoft Sync Framework 2.0.

» Better Performance: File copy speed is significantly increased.

» Exclusion Filtering Based on Name: File exclusion based on name with exact or fuzzy matching.

» Improved Robustness: Instead of failing the whole synchronization session on an unknown single file error (including network issues), SyncToy 2.1 flags the error and continues with the remaining files.

Download Microsoft SyncToy 2.1 / 3.5mb

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