Microsoft has begun distributing the update responding to accusations of anti competition from Opera Software and other alternative browsers that have subsequently joined.

This BallotScreen presents itself as a web page that loads an icon associated with a browser has a description, both provided by the publisher and the link for the download.

Top 5 browsers are those that are most used to know Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera in order of appearance is random. Followed 6 other browsers with less market share as their order is random.

For more information on the Ballot Screen Brower I return to this old article

To apply this update just for the moment to go to Windows Update and look at the optional updates.

The update will be automatic from 1 March.

Office Web Apps is a suite of Microsoft but this time online, it contains the three largest software are Word, Excel and Powerpoint as well as OneNote.

Registration for the test is done via the service for sharing files Skydrive, simply pass its Windows Live account in English of the time the transaction to gain access, then send a file to Skydrive and Office to join the Technical Preview Program will be offered.

Once accepted, you will then be possible to open the New menu and create Word, Excel, PowerPoint and One Note as shown in the screenshot below (click to enlarge)

For the moment it is not possible to access the document creation OneNote or Word documents but others are available.

Skydrive

Recently, a small software was released with the appearance of an Excel spreadsheet but which appears in the latest Twitter's and that you could meet all running under the platform Adobe Air

This time, the Office Watch blog has found a technique and sharing on his blog that allows using the real Excel to receive all of your Twitter's still having the appearance of a spreadsheet.

For now the tutorial does not indicate how to send a new Tweet.

Tutorials in two parts on Office Watch to create a spreadsheet for Excel Twitter

Adobe Air that looks like a spreadsheet but can also send Twitter's

During the next week, 20 new web services will be added to the existing 12 will share with your contacts through Windows Live Messenger or homepage home.live.com your activities on social networks sites or "Web 2 €? as:

• Facebook
• Overblog
• Dailymotion
• LastFM
• MySpace
• ...

They are then added to the feed Twitter, Wordpress, Flickr.

Below the list of all services will be added in the screenshot:

(Click to enlarge)

Via the blog of the Windows Live Team

Add feeds to your profile

Display in French on Windows Live

For now, Microsoft has made available to U.S. residents a Beta version of its advertising for the websites as it may already be the case with Google Adsense for several years.

The program pays the CPC and various formulas proposed as the development of forms of research, various banner formats:

300 x 250 (Med. Rectangle)

250 x 250 (Sq Pop-Up)

180 x 150 (Rectangle)

468 x 60 (Full Banner)

234 x 60 (Half Banner)

120 x 240 (Vertical Banner)

125 x 125 (Sq Button)

728 x 90 (Leaderboard)

160 x 600 (Wide Skyscraper)

120 x 600 (Skyscraper)

240 x 400 (Vertical Rectangle)

600 x 250 (Wide Rectangle)

Source: Microsoft adCenter Blog

Admission to the Beta program is not automatic and must be validated according to criteria submitted during registration, the service is still in Beta and the minimum ceiling before any payment shall be $ 50.

A category list of unauthorized websites is available in the Help topic such as sites Hacking / Warez, ...

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