Microsoft Office 2010 Price

Microsoft Office 2010 Price

Microsoft office 2010 can be purchased as Retail box pack or Product Key Cards. Later is cheaper than retail box pack which contains only genuine product activation key.

Microsoft Office 2010 is available in Four editions:

Office 2010 Home and Student Edition Price: $149 for the Retail version and $119 for Key Card
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Office Web Apps

Office 2010 Home and Business Edition Price: $279 for the box, $199 for the Product Key Card.
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook and Office Web Apps

Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Price: $499 for Box pack and $349 for a key
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, Access and Office Web Apps

Office 2010 Professional Academic Edition price: $99 and it includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, Access and Office Web Apps but only available to “qualified students and educators.”

Windows Vista Home Premium

Windows Vista Home Premium

Windows Vista Home Premium – is meant for Digital Entertainmnet

With Windows Vista Home Premium Edition You have more fun with your music, TV, games, and digital media.

Vista home premium making it easy to take control of all Multimedia and gaming needs with new security features:

windows vista home premium

Windows Vista Home Premium Features

• Parental Controls
• Windows Photo Gallery
• Windows Aero™ with Windows Flip 3D
• Windows Media Center
• Windows Tablet and Touch Technology

Windows Vista Home PremiumPrice in India – 6,000/- INR (Indian Rupee)

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Price

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium offers easy computing experience and complete entertainment solution at affordable price.

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium is now available in India

Windows 7 Home Premium with media center features watch, pause, rewind, and record TV functions and makes it easy to create a simple home network and share all of your photos, videos, and music.

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Features:

• New navigation features like Aero Shake, Jump Lists, and Snap.
• Easily Customize Windows look and feel
• Makes your computer sleep and resume quicker
• 64-bit PC hardware and memory Support
• Start programs faster, and quickly find the documents you use most often
• Faster, easier and safer web browsing

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Price in India

• Upgrading from Windows XP/Vista then Price will be – Approx Rs. 4,500/- Indian Rupee
• And If you buy Full Retail version of Windows 7 Home Premium then it will cost you = 6,799/- Indian Rupee (INR)

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Price

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Price

Latest Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Prices

Microsoft Visual Studio Standard 2008 Price – Rs. 12,000/-
Visual Studio Standard 2008 is for individual professional or developers and small teams looking to create next generation applications with innovative user experiences.

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2008 Price – Rs.34,750/-
Integrated Development Environment for ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Windows Mobile devices.

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional with MSDN Pro 2008 Price – Rs. 51,750/-
Above mentioned features + subscription to MSDN Pro 2008 is included in this package

Microsoft offers tool to verify ‘genuine’ editions of Windows XP

Microsoft offers tool to verify ‘ GENUINE ’ editions of Windows XP

From Elizabeth Montalbano of IDG News Service:

Microsoft has updated software that verifies whether a copy of Windows is genuine in its Windows XP Professional edition, making it similar to the notification in Windows Vista and thus more persistently visible to users.

In a blog posting attributed to Alex Kochis, a Microsoft director of product marketing and management, the company said it made the changes to the Windows Genuine Notification (WGA) alerts for XP Pro because it is “the product edition that is most often stolen.”

Now when a version of Windows XP Pro is found to be pirated or counterfeit, the next time a user logs on to the system, the desktop screen background will be black, replacing whatever custom desktop may have been set by the user. This will reappear every 60 minutes, even if a user resets the screen’s background. Previously, this was not a part of the WGA notification for Windows XP Pro.

Another new feature of the alert system is to put the PC into “persistent desktop notification” mode, with a banner at the bottom of the screen informing the user that the copy of Windows is not genuine. The notification is translucent and users can interact with any objects underneath it; however, it will continue to appear on the screen until a user installs a genuine copy of Windows.

Microsoft said the update to WGA also simplifies the installation of the alert system on Windows XP Pro. In addition, the company has improved its ability to detect non-genuine copies of Windows.

Users have had mixed reactions to the WGA program, which Microsoft launched two years ago as part of an aggressive program to eliminate counterfeit and pirated versions of Windows. While some think it’s a good way for Microsoft to prevent use of non-genuine Windows software, others found the program irksome and an intrusion, particularly when it would peg systems they knew to be genuine as pirated or counterfeit.

The program even at one point was thought to be acting like spyware by sending information from people’s computers back to Microsoft. However, Microsoft said it only provides information about whether the copy of Windows is genuine, not any other information about the user or the PC.

Microsoft first distributed WGA only to users of Microsoft’s download services who wanted to install add-on software, excluding security releases, for Windows XP. Eventually, it became an automatic part of Microsoft’s update services and then was built directly into Windows Vista as the company developed that OS.