Microsoft SharedView

Microsoft SharedView lets you collaborate with up to 15 people and share the desktop or individual application windows in the host computer with other users. Let’s assume you have a detailed action plan for your company stored in a word document, and you need to share the document with your fellow staffs so that they can do their modifications to the original document simultaneously, SharedView should suffice your needs. Further, if you have Track Changes feature enabled in Microsoft Word, each change made to the content of the Word document by a participant can be identified with the participant’s name with the timestamp when the change was made. The host can then review the modified document, and accept or reject each change.

All you need is a Windows Live ID to start or join a session in SharedView.

Start SharedView, sign in using your Windows Live ID, and then start a new session.

In more details, please read “Using Microsoft SharedView to Collaborate, Conduct Meetings, Share Your Screen With Other Users” post.

Microsoft Image Composite Editor

If you enjoy making panoramas with your photos, Windows Live Photo Gallery offers this feature. You can refer it from “creating panoramic photos in Windows Live Photo Gallery”. If you want more features, you can create amazing panoramas for free with the Microsoft Image Composite Editor.

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. Given a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location, the application creates a high-resolution panorama that seamlessly combines the original images. The stitched panorama can be shared with friends and viewed in 3D by uploading it to the Photosynth web site. Or the panorama can be saved in a wide variety of image formats, from common formats like JPEG and TIFF to the multiresolution tiled format used by Silverlight's Deep Zoom and by the HD View and HD View SL panorama viewers.

If you want to know how to create advanced panoramas with Microsoft Image Editor, please click here.

 

References

New features in the latest version 1.3.3

• Accelerated stitching on multiple CPU cores
• Ability to publish, view, and share panoramas on the Photosynth web site
• Support for "structured panoramas" — panoramas consisting of hundreds of photos taken in a rectangular grid of rows and columns (usually by a robotic device like the GigaPan tripod heads)
• No image size limitation — stitch gigapixel panoramas
• Support for input images with 8 or 16 bits per component

Additional features

• State-of-the-art stitching engine
• Automatic exposure blending
• Choice of planar, cylindrical, or spherical projection
• Orientation tool for adjusting panorama rotation
• Automatic cropping to maximum image area
• Native support for 64-bit operating systems
• Wide range of output formats, including JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG, HD Photo, and Silverlight Deep Zoom

Support

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is provided free of charge and without official support. However, if you have questions or issues with Image Composite Editor, you may find help at the Image Composite Editor Forum, which is monitored by the developers and provides community-based support.