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Dear All,

We’re pleased to announce that today the Cairo Microsoft Innovation Center (CMIC) is releasing Microsoft Maren, a Windows extension that allows you to type Arabic in Roman characters and have it converted on the fly to Arabic script.  Maren integrates seamlessly with Windows and works in most Windows applications and websites.

We are inviting you to download and install Maren from: www.GetMaren.com

Email or IM a friend. Comment on a photo. Search the web. Write a document. Blog. Keep a to do list. Maren makes it easier to complete many day to day tasks in Arabic and using the applications you use today for accomplishing these tasks.

So please help us out and spread the word:

·         Tell people about GetMaren.com

·         Forward this email to your friends and family

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“Still on the Windows 7 Beta,? You need to move to the RC and fast. Starting July 1^st, the Beta will start to reboot every 2 hrs and expire Aug 1^st.

Want to download the RC? . The RC download program closes August 15th. After that, you won’t be able to get the download, but you can still install the RC and get a key if you need one. (To get a key, just go to the Downloads page and follow the instructions.)

If you’re using the Windows 7 Release Candidate, we hope you like what you see. Let us know -- go to https://input.microsoft.com and tell us what you think. You’ll be able to give feedback on various aspects of the operating system.”  

Microsoft also is going to develop new controls on top of jQuery, not only this but also full support for jQuery, which mean enterprises can open cases on Microsoft PSS for jQuery.

Great news, and very nice move

Here are some more details from ScottGu, Scott Henselman and jQuery

I'm PC, are you?

If you don’t like to build a pc, and prefer to buy it from a vendor, you still have a lot of choices, Dell, Toshiba, IBM, HP, Sony, Lenovo, … you name it, and every vendor has a great number of choices for you to choose from, and here are some of my favorite desktop & notebooks

First check out these fancy All-in-one PC’s from Dell,Hp and Sony

Dell - XPS One E4500 All-in-One	HP - TouchSmart All-In-One Desktop
Sony – All-in-one Desktop	VAIO JS Series Desktop PC

And check these amazing notebooks

Sony Vaio FW Series	Dell XPS M1530
HP HDX Series	Toshiba Satellite A300

And this is not the whole thing, these are just samples of the choices you have with a PC.

I’m a PC, are you?

Windows Live Mesh is simply one of those products that after you use it for couple of days, you find yourself saying “how I used to live before??” it solves so many problems that you used to live with them even though they are annoying.

With so many devices you deal with today for example (Your home PC, your work PC, your notebook, your Zune, your mom’s MAC, your mobile phone, your kids XBOX, … etc) keeping these devices in sync is very annoying, and simply you can get out of sync, and lose track with which device has the latest version of my documents, spreadsheets, images, files, contacts … etc

What Live Mesh is proposing, is a very simple elegant and natural solution, you simply need nothing more than what you do now, and you get a completely new experience, Imagine that you have this magic folder on your computer, that when you put anything in it, woooosh it appears in a matter of seconds on all your other devices, not just this, but if you want, your friends devices as well ;)

This is it, this is exactly what you do, any folder on your PC, MAC, Phone can be turned into this magic folder, with Windows Live Mesh.

So imagine this concept applies to your most important folders (Your documents, projects, music library, pictures, … whatever), how cool is that!!

Is this the whole thing, simply NO, you can also access your files even if you are not using any of your devices, from any internet device (as long as it has a browser) you can access your online windows live mesh desktop, and access your magic folders, even add some new folders/files to them and everything gets synced in seconds, what about a device that is not connected at the moment, no problem, once it gets connected, it will receive the updates.

Is this the whole thing, Still NO, it also gives you another amazing feature, you can access any of your devices in the Mesh remotely from the web, so even if you are not around your device, you can connect to it inside the browser, and do whatever you like on it, it is awesome.

If you like what you read so far, you like this the most, it is completely Free.

Here is a very nice video summarizes what I said earlier

Windows Live Mesh, Synchronizes Life

Now you can start simply by logging in www.mesh.com cool URI isn’t it ;) with your windows live ID, and add your devices, and be part of the Mesh, The current CTP supports only Windows XP/Vista, soon it will support Mac & Mobile Phones ;)

C# 4.0 is one of the greatest achievements of MS and it is still proving that with every new release, I can't wait to get my hands on some new bits :)

 I know you are not waiting for me to know that last Full Time day for Bell Gates was yesterday, however I couldn't help it to write about this great journey that inspired everybody.

Bill Gates was always the perfect geek, and will always be, he is an inspiration for everybody, inside Microsoft, or outside, even his competitors can't deny his influence on them and how he could give the right vision and direction for the company in the last 3 decades.

 I will try to give you some goodies about Bill Gates, that I personally like

Bill Gates Harvard Speech (Believe me this one is funny :) )

Bill Gates Looking Back, Moving Ahead

Bill Gates in MacWorld in 1997 (The funniest part when Microsoft was planning to help Apple in Java)