Microsoft and The Olympics

Posted By: Miguel | Aug 11th, 2008 @ 7:52 PM | 18,538 Views | 1 Comment

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Beijing and China are, probably, the centre of the World these days thanks to the Olympics. I am sure that most of you are following the updates from the competitions and enjoyed the espectacular Opening Ceremony that happened at 8:08:08 of the August 8th in 2008 (of course, they chosed that time to pay tribute to Channel 8 Smiley

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What you might not know is that Microsoft technologies are present in the competition and making it possible in so many ways. For instance, Microsoft technologies are supporting the Olympics in the following areas:

1.- Thanks to Microsoft Silverlight Beta 2 now we can sit at home and watch the Olympics through the NBC Olympics webpage.

2.- We can also have fun playing sports games such as the games created with Microsoft Popfly using the Popfly Creator. Check these 10 sports games at http://www.popfly.com/sports/

3.- If you want to stay tuned to the Olympics while you do other things, you can simply install the newest version of the MSN Toolbar, available for Internet Explorer, which has as a new feature a "Beijing 2008 Olympics" tab, that will let you keep up-to-date with all the latest info from the Games, including quick links to Olympics news, the latest medal counts, videos from the games, and links to all the various sports...

4.- Finally, we can also find some Sharepoint-based solutions enabling the organizational tasks of Olympics. One of the most important systems is INFO 2008, and do you know what? Yes, it is supported by Sharepoint and makes use of the new Microsoft Search Server technology. You can read more about this at the official Sharepoint team blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/08/06/sharepoint-server-2007-powers-beijing-2008-olympic-games.aspx)

5.- Also, depending on your location, you will be able to find the NBC Olympics channel through your Windows Media Center (in the Online Media section).

Now it is your time to enjoy the Olympics wherever you are: Through Technology we can be one World, dreaming the same dream.

Tags: internet explorer, microsoft, msn toolbar, olympics, Popfly, SharePoint, Silverlight

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sriram
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speaking of 08:08:08 08/08/08, Laura had a post on C10 about a certain Capture The Moment Event... course the event is over..but you might be able to see the outcome.. http://on10.net/blogs/laura/080808-080808/