Today, I just did a talk on a event called Microsoft Innovation Day. This event previews some of the emerging technologies and trends, resources, and business benefits. MDEC is also doing a pitch on how technopreneur’s can get pre-seed funding for their business ideas.

There is the new silverlight toolkit in town. It offers various controls that you can use to build rich internet applications. Now it is much easier for developers like me to create cool webpages with Silverlight.

Here are some of the screenshots of the charts that you can create online. To download the toolkit go to Codeplex.

If you have time, do drop by. I heard there’s some freebies. Too bad I got class on that day…

Recently Microsoft gave a sneak preview about Windows 7. You can find some of the snapshot here in Flickr and watch the Introduction to Windows 7 in Channel 9

One thing interesting that I find about Windows 7 is that it is really light. I found this quote in a website that follows Microsoft closely. (Microsoft Watch).

“The senior vice president of Windows engineering continued: It has a one gigahertz processor and one gigabyte of RAM and it’s running Windows 7. And when I boot it, about half that RAM is still available today in the current build. And we’re going to keep working on that, and we’re pretty excited about the work that we’ve done on performance, and I’m pretty “excited about this class of machine and the work that we can do to deliver that Windows 7 on those machines.”

Microsoft just announced that the next version of Microsoft Office will be available as browser-based tools . The online apps will include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote and will run on your browser.

From what i read, the office web applications are a lightweight versions of the desktop version. It will be shipped as Office 14 (Next Version of MS Office). Now that’s the power of Web 2.0, a few years from now i can use my keep my files online and access it through my mobile phone.

Get more information about it in the Channel 10 Blog and checkout the screencast on Channel 9

Accidentally deleted some emails? Here’s how to recover them:

1.       Navigate to the folder that you have accidentally deleted the email (ie. Inbox/Sent Item/Deleted Item)

2.       Go To Tools -> Recover Deleted Item

3.       Select the email that you want to recover and select Recover Selected Item.

Recover Deleted Files in Outlook 2007

I’ve just recently did an event for Microsoft Student Partner Program (KLCC) and Microsoft Innovation Day at Cyberjaya. Both events are fantastic, there were a lot of response and interest regarding Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) & Silverlight.

As promised, here are the slides for both events.

Here are some links that you could take a look at

1. Get Started with WPF
2. When to adopt WPF
3. Some good FAQs about interoperability  between WinForm and WPF apps

I don’t know about you guys. But sometimes i find it very troublesome when i need to send files to someone with an older version of office. I need to frequently remind myself to save it in an older version.

But recently i found 2 ways to overcome this.

Tip #1

1. Click the Microsoft Office Button , and then click Word Options.
2. Click Save.
3. Under Save documents, next to Save files in this format, select Word 2003-97 Document (*.doc).

Tip #2

Ask your friend to install Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack. Then Office 2003 version will be compatible with Office 2007 files.

Hope this helps. Cheers