October 22 webcast now available on demand: Managing projects is easier with Project 2013 and SharePoint 2013

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Join us Tuesday, October 22 at 10:30am PST/1:30pm EST for a 90-minute webcast to learn how using Project 2013 and SharePoint 2013 together makes managing projects easier.

The new capabilities in SharePoint 2013 make it an awesome platform for project collaboration, and Project 2013 provides improved 2-way sync with SharePoint 2013. We'll demo both so you can see why it's a project management match made in heaven!

Register here for our Project webcast series to access the ON-DEMAND version of this session.

Presenter: Éamonn McGuinness, Founder and CEO, BrightWork

To see the complete Project webcast series agenda, go to aka.ms/ProjectWebcastSeries.

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Windows 8.1 now available!

Less than a year ago we were preparing to launch Windows 8, which introduced our vision of highly personalized mobile computing. And here we are today announcing the global availability of Windows 8.1. Windows 8.1 demonstrates our commitment to continuously improving the product to create a richer customer experience. We are excited to have customers start updating their devices today and getting to experience new Windows devices this holiday season.

Windows 8.1 brings a variety of new features and improvements to Windows 8 that we think people will really enjoy. We listened to your feedback and are delivering many of the improvements you asked for.

If you are a consumer with a Windows 8 device, you can now download the free update to Windows 8.1 online through the Windows Store*. Please visit Windows.com for everything you need to know including how to get the update for your Windows 8 device. If you are a consumer on a device running Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, or the Windows 8.1 Preview – this page on Windows.com will detect your OS and provide you with all the information you need in order to get Windows 8.1 on your device. I also highly recommend reading our FAQ which answers many of the most common questions about getting Windows 8.1.

Starting tomorrow October 18th, Windows 8.1 will also be available on new devices and as packaged DVD product at retail locations around the world. You can also click here to learn about the wide variety of new Windows devices available now and coming throughout the holiday season to find the one that best fits their needs, and their budget.

To celebrate the new Windows, starting today for the next 8 days – we will pick 810 (see what we did there?) random winners per day who tweet and share their new Start screen after updating their Windows 8 device to Windows 8.1 with the #MyStart hashtag.

To take a screenshot of your Start screen in Windows 8.1, open up the Share charm from your Start screen and tap or click the down arrow next to “Start” and choose “Screenshot” (shown above). Alternatively, you can press the Windows logo key + PrtScn on your keyboard or if you're using a tablet, press the Windows logo button + the volume down button.

Winners will receive a $10 promotional Windows Store gift card to get started with great Windows apps and games. Click here for the full terms and conditions for the sweepstakes including how to redeem your gift card if you are a winner. Winners will be informed via Direct Message on Twitter. This sweepstakes is for participants in the U.S. only. However, we would still love to see Start screens from people around the world and in different languages!

We will also be hosting an IAmA chat on reddit today with several of our engineers to answer your questions about Windows 8.1 from 10:30am to 12:00pm (PST). Our engineers are excited to answer your questions about many of the new features and improvements in Windows 8.1 (see more below on these features and improvements). Please note this will not be the appropriate place to seek help with any issues you may have had with getting Windows 8.1 on your device – the best place for assistance with your issues will be the Microsoft Community forums.

After our reddit chat, we will host a special Tech Thursday Live Twitter Chat to discuss Windows 8.1 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm (PST). Join @Windows, @kristinalibby, and myself (@brandonleblanc) for the chat. To participate in the chat, just use our normal #winchathashtag. We look forward to seeing some of your new Start screens from Windows 8.1! I’m planning to share my Start screen but you’ll have to attend our chat to see it as I’m still finishing up making it look epic.

You’ve heard us (and me) talk a lot about the new features in Windows 8.1 since the Build conference last June but I think it’s worth reiterating the awesomeness that Windows 8.1 brings to your device.

Start the way you want. The Start screen in Windows 8.1 is more customizable than ever with new tile sizes, new background designs and colors – allowing you to make the Start screen on your device unique and personal to you (you should see some of the color combinations I’ve come up with for my Start screen!). You can also choose how you start your Windows experience – at the Start screen or the desktop. The Start button is back. And there is an improved Apps view that allows you to see all your apps the way you want.

Multi-tasking is even better in Windows 8.1 – you can now have up to four apps side by side with flexible windows sizing for each app on the screen. At a minimum, I usually have 3 apps snapped side by side on my devices doing various things like email, listening to music and browsing the web. We have also improved multi-monitor support in Windows 8.1 allowing users to view their desktop or apps from the Windows Store on any or all their monitors.

Bing Smart Search is the easiest way to find what you are looking for and to get things done. Built for touch, swipe or type from the Start screen and Smart Search will find what you need – whether it’s a document on your PC, a photo album in the cloud, your favorite app, or a website.

Windows 8.1 comes with new and improved Microsoft apps and services – available right out of the box and right from your Start screen. Skype is there for instant messaging and catching up with friends and family. We’ve updated the Mail app (well, more like over-hauled) to make email easier – for both personal and email and work email. Two new Bing apps are introduced in Windows 8.1 called Food & Drink and Health & Fitness along with updates to the News, Weather, Finance, Travel and Sports apps. Xbox Music has received a big update for Windows 8.1, and you can watch TV and movies with Xbox Video. And Windows 8.1 comes with Internet Explorer 11which is optimized for touch and brings speed boosts and synchronized browsing history, favorites, and settings across all of your Windows 8.1 devices.

Speaking of synchronizing – Windows 8.1 also comes with deep and improved cloud integration with SkyDrive. Your files are always accessible across all your devices. With SkyDrive smart files, you can create, edit, save and share files anywhere, anytime and your files are always with you, both on and offline.

And the Windows Store has been redesigned in Windows 8.1. With the “New & Rising” section it is now easier to stay on top of the hottest and newest apps to hit the Windows Store. Plus, the Windows Store has a live tile too! The Windows Store will also now provide you with personalized recommendations – powered by Bing. And apps are now updated from the Windows Store automatically by default so you will always have the best and newest versions of your apps. Look for new and updated apps including Adobe Photoshop Express, Box, Evernote, Facebook, Hulu Plus, Netflix, and NOOK, for Windows 8.1. And more to come!

Windows 8.1 will also bring some very innovative new devices for both consumers and businesses from tablets and 2-in-1s with a perfect mix of mobility and productivity, to new laptops, All-in-Ones and specialized industry devices Windows 8.1 brings the widest selection of designs at every price point. I’ll be blogging more about many of these devices over the next few weeks as they become available, so you can find and experience a device that is truly an extension of you.

Windows 8.1 represents collaboration across the entire company. Over the last three days, we’ve featured guest blog posts from our friends at Skype, Xbox, Bing, SkyDrive, and Internet Explorer that discusses in the connected experience that Windows 8.1 brings together.

And now you can enjoy the results of this work today. So get your device updated! And be sure to share those Start screens.

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Office 365 now available in 38 new markets

Office 365 builds commercial availability in 38 new markets, 3 new languages, and 5 new currencies.  Office 365 is now available worldwide on 127 markets, and it is easier for customers to pay with their method of choice.  All Office-365-plans are now available for customers in the Philippines and Thailand to the subscribe.  The other new markets can now start a 120-day trial before a paid subscription will be made available.

The new languages are Turkish, Arabic and Dutch. This increases the number of Office 365 languages up to 36, including English.

New markets are: Philippines, Thailand, Viet Nam, Lebanon, Jamaica, Bolivia, Brunei, Nicaragua, Honduras, Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Georgia, Ghana, Mauritius, Macao SAR, Iraq, Bermuda, Rwanda, Belize, Cameroon, Nepal, Moldova, Mongolia, Zimbabwe, Barbados, Cape Verde, Fiji, Kyrgyzstan, US Virgin Islands, the Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Angola, Libya, [1] Bangladesh, Uzbekistan, Yemen.[2]

New payment are accepted currencies: Brazilian real (BRL), Mexican peso (MXN), Malaysian Ringgit (MYR), Hong Kong dollars (HKD), Indian rupee (INR).

We are pleased to bring you the Office 365 for more customers around the world.  You can see, hereis the complete list of markets Office 365.

[1] Five markets later this year offering no academic calendar: Virgin Islands, United States, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Angola and Libya

[2] Three markets will have academic offerings, but not to later studies: Bangladesh, Uzbekistan, Yemen.

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The Access 2013 Runtime now available for download

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After a long, hard effort by many people, the stars have finally aligned. The Access team is pleased to announce the release of the Access 2013 Runtime! We know lots of you are very anxious to get your hands on the Access 2013 Runtime. You can now go and download the Access 2013 Runtime from the following location:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0c44d623-a8bc-4be5-a561-f11d33602505

The Access 2013 Runtime is available for download in 38 languages.

Microsoft Access 2013 provides a rich platform for developing database management solutions with easy-to-use customization tools. If no end user customization is required (including report modifications), you can choose to distribute those Access 2013 solutions so that they run without requiring a full installation of Access 2013. To do so, you must package and distribute your application with the Access 2013 Runtime.

Web-based apps for SharePoint that are built with Access 2013 do not require a runtime--only a supported web browser is required.

Enjoy!

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OneNote Jump Start recording available

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A couple of weeks ago, we did a live, 2-hour course on getting started in OneNote 2013. It was all about getting organized, taking notes, and sharing information. If you missed it, no worries, because the recording is now available here: http://aka.ms/OneJump.

After you sign in to the Microsoft Virtual Academy site, you can watch the videos and follow along at your own pace. You can also download the OneNote workbook we used in the session.

The course uses examples that are common in the IT field, but the stuff we teach will ring true for people in other industries as well. I mean let's face it: we are bombarded with gobs of information every day. And OneNote is a great way to collect, organize, and make sense of it all.

So watch the videos when you're ready. Or share them out at your company so that other people can learn the power of taking notes, sharing, and collaborating with OneNote.

--Dave Ludwig and Doug Thomas

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Download OneNote: onenote.com
Follow OneNote: twitter.com/msonenote
Like OneNote: facebook.com/MicrosoftOneNote

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Office Mobile for iPhone now available for Office 365 subscribers

Today we give Office Mobile for the iPhone available free of charge from the Apple app store for Office 365 Home Premium and Office 365 ProPlus subscribers free. Similar to our free Office Mobile for Windows phone , this included with each handset enables the iPhone app, great Office displaying content and on-the-go content editing features.

After signing up to an Office 365 account you can access, view and edit Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents from anywhere. And you can count on Office Mobile, your content to keep, and formatting intact, so that the document still gorgeous, if you get back to your PC or Mac.

When we started this year of Office 365, we have the delivery of regular updates and new features to Office 365 subscribers. Since then we have expanded Skype call and new OneNote Featuresadded. Office Mobile is another excellent example of the value of Office 365, Subscribe to and I can guarantee you, there are many more to come.

So, let us into the fun stuff and look, what can this app!

Because Office Mobile from Microsoft, the formatting and layout remain when you view, edit, or add comments, support for animations, charts, SmartArt graphics, and forms. When you get back to your PC or Mac your document looks like it should be.

Excel on Office Mobile for iPhone

Office Mobile is aimed at people on the move.  We have quick and easy access to your Office content in the cloud on SkyDrive or SkyDrive Pro. If you have on your phone, you can easily find the content, you recent documents on your computer at the viewed. And of course, you can view and edit Office documents by email send.

Most recently used documents on Office Mobile for iPhone

Office Mobile has been optimized for the small screen of the phone, so you can quickly complete the important things. For example, the Slide Navigator you can scroll quickly through PowerPoint presentations, you help practice presentations on the road during lecture notes. Check Word documents on your phone the resume function will read the exact point in the document where you left off on your computer so that you never miss a beat.

Quick edits can make and share your documents directly from your mobile phone with Office Mobile. When working with others can add comments in Word and Excel documents on your phone make and own. When you are finished, can save directly to SkyDrive or SkyDrive Pro or send as an e-Mail attachment.

You do not already have an Office 365 subscription is a great way, Office Mobile try for an Office 365 at http://www.office.com/login. And of course, if you're already using a Windows phone you have installed Office Mobile on your phone.

Check this video for those of you who would like to see the app in action. Learn more on the Office-365-Tech Blog.

--Julia White, General Manager, Microsoft Office Division

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Free Project 2013 quick start training available on demand

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Whether you are a novice user of Microsoft Project 2013 or you want to learn about IT Professional or developer topics, please consider our new quick start training for Project 2013--it's free and available on demand!

You get over 9 hours of content divided into 13 modules. Don't have much time? Don't worry, each module is broken down into individual videos so you can go at your own pace.

Modules 2 through 4 provide an overview of the new capabilities of Microsoft Project 2013 while modules 7 to 13 go deeper into IT Professional and developer topics. Please find below the detailed description of individual modules.

--Jan Kalis, Product Marketing Manager, Project and Visio

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Project available as 3 flexible cloud services through Office 365

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We're proud to announce the availability of Microsoft Project as a flexible cloud service, delivered by Office 365. For the first time, customers can sign up for flexible plans, get started quickly and use the full capabilities of project and portfolio management without adding IT complexity.

There are 3 Project cloud services to choose from:

Project Online is a flexible online solution for project portfolio management (PPM) and everyday work. With a convenient subscription and delivery through Office 365, Project Online enables organizations to get started, prioritize project portfolio investments and deliver the intended business value—from virtually anywhere on nearly any device.

Project Pro for Office 365 delivers the latest version of Project Professional as a subscription through Office 365. Your software is automatically kept up to date (with options for customizable policies) and users on the go can work from the computer of their choice by streaming the complete desktop client with Project on Demand. Keep deployments simple, benefit from flexible options, and enjoy integration with other Office 365 services like Lync and SharePoint.

Project Online with Project Pro for Office 365 is an all-in-one subscription which delivers the full spectrum of project management capabilities – from task management for teams to project management to project portfolio planning. Now you can have the best of our suite of project management solutions in a single cloud service, without IT overhead and the ability to easily scale from just a few users to your entire organization.

Now that you can get Project virtually anywhere, through Office 365 cloud services, team members can manage their tasks as easily as pressing a check box on their smartphone browser and managers can check reports on the go with just a swipe on their wirelessly connected tablet device.

Collaboration is smooth and effective with Project Team Sites on SharePoint, where colleagues can share documents, comment in newsfeeds, and keep up to date on team tasks and deliverables with the Team Timeline. Real-time communication comes via Lync integration, making it simple to see a team member's status, open a chat dialog, or even initiate a phone call or video conference. Reports are more clean, clear, and easy to create right out of the box than ever before.

Ease your IT management headaches with Project delivered through Office 365. Microsoft offers excellent security, guaranteed uptime, and additional benefits so that businesses can gain efficiency and scale without losing focus on core competencies.

We invite you to visit our new website to learn more about Project, and hope that you’ll contact your nearest Project partner to make arrangements for a live demonstration. It’s our pleasure to share our new products with you and we look forward to maintaining innovative and robust services to meet your project management and project portfolio management needs.

--Mark Sargeant, Product Marketing Manager

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Windows 8 apps available for Office webinars

15-Minute webinars are available in new apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8videos from Office. These videos will help you the most out of Word, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, PowerPoint, and other Office applications. Watch on your phone or computer Windows 8, or use the app as a second screen, how the steps in the demo on your home screen. So now you have an other option of to last Office webinars view next to the Office Blog, Office YouTube channelor accession life plus participate in the live-Q & A session-every Tuesday at http://aka.ms/offweb.

Or you are simply looking for "Office webinars" next time, if you are on the Windows store.

--Doug Thomas

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Windows Upgrade Offer Registration Now Available

Today, registration is officially open for the Windows Upgrade Offer we announced in May. If you purchase or have purchased an eligible Windows 7 PC anytime between June 2, 2012 and January 31, 2013 you will be able to purchase an upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for only $14.99 (U.S.) which will be redeemable when Windows 8 is generally available on October 26th. If you’re still looking for a PC, check out some of our great Windows 7 PCs. Once you’ve purchased your PC you can come back and register for the offer.

Registration for the Windows Upgrade Offer is only for those who buy an eligible Windows 7 PC between June 2nd and January 31st, 2013.

Here is what you need to do to register for your $14.99 (U.S.) upgrade to Windows 8 Pro:

After buying your PC, go to the Windows Upgrade Offer website to register. It will ask you to select your country (details for the offer vary depending on country). You will then be asked to register with your personal details as well as information about your Windows 7 PC purchase – including date of purchase, retailer, and PC brand and model. You should also have your 25-digit Windows 7 product key that came with the PC handy as you may be required to enter this as part of the registration.

Then starting on October 26th, we will start sending out promo codes via email with purchase instructions. You will be directed to Windows.com where you will go through the online upgrade process with the Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant (shown above) as I have highlighted here in this blog post. Once you get to the purchase screen in the Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant, it will show the $39.99 upgrade price. However, on the order confirmation page you’ll have a chance to enter your promo code – that price will change to $14.99. Once you make your purchase, your download and upgrade installation begins!

You will have until February 28, 2013 to register for the offer to get Windows 8 Pro for $14.99.

If you experience any issues or have questions - you can click the contact support link at the top of the Windows Upgrade Offer website.

Did you already buy an awesome Windows 7 PC prior to June 2nd (or have a Windows 7 PC not eligible for the offer)? Not to worry! Starting on October 26th, you will be able to upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for $39.99!

Both the Windows Upgrade Offer and $39.99 upgrade promotion is available in 140 countries worldwide, with 37 supported languages, and 23 supported currencies (we’ve added 9 additional countries over the original 131!).

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The new Office is now available for business customers

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Business customers around the world can now purchase the on-premises versions of the new Office products--including Office 2013, Exchange Server 2013, Lync Server 2013, SharePoint Server 2013, Project 2013 and Visio 2013--through Microsoft Volume Licensing. Broad availability of the new Office through retail and online channels is planned for the first quarter of 2013. The new Office gives customers a comprehensive set of productivity tools to help them do their best work in a world of devices and services.

From the free trial of the new Office we delivered through the Customer Preview in July to our announcement in October that we had reached our RTM milestone, we've gotten a lot of valuable feedback that helped shape the final version. Here are a few things about the new Office that we think are great:

The new Office works beautifully with touch, stylus, mouse or keyboard to give you the ultimate productivity experience. It brings the familiar Office experience to a wide range of new devices and gives you the best experience on Windows.*The new Office is inherently social with real-time news feeds for people, documents and discussions, high-definition video conferencing**, shared notebooks and virtual whiteboards. The new Office provides security features without compromise, includes data loss prevention, compliance management, built-in malware protection, and flexible deployment options across on-premises and in the cloud.The new Office is in the cloud. Coupled with new cloud services available next year, the new Office will save your documents to SkyDrive by default, and your personalized settings, templates and documents will travel with you.*

To order, begin testing or learn more about Office 2013, please ask your Microsoft Account Team or your Microsoft Partner. Whether you're ready to buy the on-premises Office 2013 products available now or want to use the cloud services available early next year, try the new Office today and let us know what you think.

 --Sanjay Manchanda, Office Team 

 *Windows 7 or Windows 8 operating system required

**HD video camera required for high-definition video conferencing

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Camera Raw 7.2, DNG Converter available on Labs

Alongside Lightroom 4.2, release candidate builds of Camera Raw (for CS6) & the DNG Converter (used to make images from newer cameras available with numerous DNG-reading apps, including older versions of Lightroom & Photoshop) are now available on Adobe Labs.

Posted by John Nack at 10:15 AM on September 02, 2012

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New Creative Cloud Features Available

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Flash Builder 4.7 Beta now available!

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Adobe Reader (10.1) now available for Windows Phone 7.5

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Excel Web App - What's now available in a browser near you?

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This blog post is brought to you by Dan Battagin, Group Program Manager for the Excel Web App team.

Greetings - I hope everyone's been enjoying the content on the blog over the last few releases, and that everyone's excited to see what's coming in the next version of Office, Excel, and the Excel Web App. Jane mentioned in her last post how we went about deciding what to invest in, and today I’ll share with you some of the broad investment areas for the browser-based versions of Excel.  Of course, all I expect that to do is whet your appetite – so in the coming months the team and I will take you through the details of some of the key changes/additions we've made.

As always - we'd love to get your feedback here or directly through the public beta that's available on SkyDrive or Office365. So without further ado, let's see what's on the topic list!

Performance. As with all of the Office Web Apps, on the Excel Web App team we are always talking about performance. We're always looking for ways to squeeze more performance out of the browser and bring the experience closer to the one you're used to with Excel itself. We've made some great strides this time that we'll tell you about, as well as some places where we will continue to improve the live service as you use it.

Features. Over the last couple of years, we've continued to add new features to Excel Web App on a regular basis - embedding and mash-ups, context menus, better sharing, printing, and more - but we've got a lot more that we waited until now to release. We'll talk through some of the awesomeness that is now available in the coming posts - including better charting, new types of slicers, QueryTable support, PivotTable editing, and much more.

A New Look and Feel (literally). Each release of Excel always brings an update to the visuals, and this release is no different. We've embraced a new, more minimalist design while maintaining the familiarity that people have come to rely on from version to version. The result is a crisp, clean, modern look that's sure to catch your eye. We've also taken the opportunity to optimize the look and interaction model on different devices – for instance, you'll get a more spacious (finger friendly) experience on tablet devices.

Excel Everywhere. There's data all over the web, so now Excel is all over the web too! We've made improvements to embedding and are introducing two new ways to experience Excel in context of your everyday surfing:

Excel Button - Officially the Excel Interactive View, the Excel Button is similar to the Facebook Like button - when you see and click on an Excel Button, data on the page will automatically be presented in an interactive view complete with custom filters and charts, bringing the power of Excel to the Web. Learn more on ExcelMashup.com.

Surveys - Ever wanted to collect data from a group of people directly into a spreadsheet? Now you can, easily, without them having to worry about where to enter the data because they are presented with a clean, simple, survey.

Spreadsheet Compliance and Control. In June 2011 we acquired Prodiance, a leading spreadsheet compliance and control company. Since then, we've worked to integrate the functionality into Excel, Access, and SharePoint and we're extremely excited by the results. We'll walk you through the components in a series of posts, and I think you'll be excited as well.

More, Better APIs for Developers. Extensibility has always been a key aspect of Excel, and this release we've continued to invest in our APIs in ways that we think will bring Excel Web App into the powerhouse of today’s web developers. We've added support for Apps for Office - HTML5 and JavaScript based solutions that can be hosted as floating objects or task panes inside Excel Web App, as well as made significant improvements to our embedding, REST, and JavaScript APIs, enabling new mash-up scenarios that were never possible in the past, even in desktop Excel.

Whew, there’s a lot to cover in the next few months - but we're excited about it and will do our best to share that excitement through the blog. As I mentioned before, we want to hear what you think too - so please, leave your comments here or head on over to SkyDrive and opt in to the Web Apps Preview so you can give us your feedback there!

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Lightroom 4.2 Release Candidate now available on Adobe Labs

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Photosmith, the Lightroom iPad companion, is now available

I’m very pleased to see that after much anticipation, Photosmith for iPad has been released. I haven’t yet had a chance to try it, but initial reactions seem enthusiastic. Rob Galbraith writes,

We’ve had the pleasure of using Photosmith during its beta period and it has already joined our list of must-have photography apps for Apple’s tablet. If you use Lightroom and own an iPad, we strongly recommend checking out Photosmith.

Tangent: I’ll kick the tires once I find my tablet’s Camera Connection Kit, which is… somewhere.  Apple must surely recognize the frailty of such a solution, and I’m waiting for them to do to it what the iPad 2's Smart Cover did to the original’s recycled-mousepad of a cover: enable incredibly easy pairing & transfer between devices (e.g. cameras, phones, and tablets).  Hints about AirDrop in Lion make me hopeful.

Posted by John Nack at 3:59 PM on April 27, 2011

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Adobe Reader now available on BlackBerry PlayBook

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