Cincinnati State, Evendale Branch
November 11th, 2002 at 7:00 p.m
Microsoft Mindshare
HolidayTour
Microsoft is excited to be coming to show several of the
latest products for the Holiday 2002 shopping season. The live demos will
include Picture It! Digital Image Pro, Tablet PC, Pocket PC and several
games -- Links 2003 and Age of Mythology. In addition, you'll see some tips
and tricks about Windows XP and hear briefly about the rest of the products
in the holiday lineup.
Picture It! ® Digital Image Pro version 7

If you enjoy working with Digital Photos and want
an easy to use product that gives you powerful tools, you will want to see
Picture It! Digital Image Pro. It puts you in control of your photos through
a unique combination of powerful digital imaging tools with helpful wizards
and professional-quality photo projects. Picture It! offers advanced tools
that let you make your digital pictures look the way you want them to.
Choose from over 3,000 professional photo projects or a wide variety of
special effects to enhance your photos for sharing through prints, email,
and the Web.
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Powerful Tools. Picture It! offers
advanced tools from batch processing and Adobe® Photoshop Filter Plug-in
support to Fill Flash and Backlighting controls for precise yet fast photo
correction.
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You can fix, organize, and print photos
fast. The Mini Lab and Gallery tools make it quick and easy to bring in a
several pictures at a time, make them perfect, and organize them so they
are easy to find and use.
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It's easy to get started and use. You
can use photos from just about anywhere—a digital camera, a picture CD,
scanner, hard drive, or the Web. With the new file browser, additional
file menus, and the new startup window, it will take even less time to
correct all of your photos.
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Photo templates and projects help you create like a
Professional. Picture It! Digital Image Pro includes 3000 pre-created
templates for letterheads, business cards, presentations, web photo
albums, photo cards, frames, calendars, magazine covers, web photo albums,
and more. You just supply the picture and make professional-quality
results.
Tablet PC


The Tablet PC provides the full power and functionality of
today's notebook PCs with all the features of Windows XP Professional. In
addition, you get the added capabilities of pen-based computing: using a
digital pen to input handwritten information into your computer, and using
the pen to control your computer, like you would with a keyboard or mouse.
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition lets you combine the simplicity
of pen and paper with the power of the PC. In addition to using a keyboard
and mouse, you can write directly on the screen using a digital pen. You can
take handwritten notes with digital ink and save them using Windows Journal,
a note-taking utility that comes with Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. With
Windows Journal, you can
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Format handwritten ink to emphasize ideas and personalize
your notes.
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Search all of your handwritten notes using keywords to
quickly locate information.
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Convert your handwritten notes into typed text.
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Mark up almost any document with handwritten notes without
making changes to that document.
Pen and ink capabilities can be extended to other
applications in addition to Windows Journal. Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
will offer Office XP Pack for Tablet PC as a free download. With Office XP
Pack for Tablet PC, you can take advantage of pen and ink capabilities in
Office XP core applications, which includes Microsoft Word, Outlook®, Excel,
and PowerPoint®.
Pocket PC

The Pocket PC is one of the most
connected PDAs available. It offers you more choices for communicating and
accessing your personal and corporate information-so that you can stay in
touch, informed, and in step with key people and projects. The Pocket
PC can be a fun, entertaining, and even educational device, offering you a
"personalized" mobile experience that reflects your own style and tastes.
We'll show you the latest advancements in technology in
Pocket PCs. For instance, Toshiba's GENIO e550G integrates a package of
productivity tools supported by the Intel PXA250 (XScale) 400MHz processor,
the fastest available for Pocket PC applications. Pocket versions of
Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Internet Explorer and the Windows Media
Player are all integrated into the GENIO e series. If features two of the
latest advances in expansion slots: an SD slot for the Secure Digital
Input-Output card and SD memory card and a CF-II slot for compact flash
cards. Toshiba and numerous third-party developers support these slots with
diverse applications, including memory cards, 802.11b wireless networking
cards, modem cards, and Bluetooth™ cards.
We'll show you how you can easily connect this Pocket PC to
a wireless network.
Links 2003

Links® 2003 delivers the most realistic golf experience
on your PC. The newest version of history's best-selling golf series
takes you to six all-new championship courses, giving you more realistic
control over every shot with the all-new real-time swing. Create your own
character and play against some of the hottest pros in your own professional
career, then design your home course with the Arnold Palmer Course Designer
and share it online
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The most detailed golf environments possible –
Links 2003's improved graphics engine makes each course look unbelievably
real, with higher-resolution textures blended together for gorgeous
bunkers, lakes, trees, shadows, and more.
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All-new championship courses from around the world
– Cabo del Sol (Mexico), Kauri Cliffs (New Zealand), GLENEAGLES®
(Scotland), The Tribute at Otsego Club (U.S.), Robert Trent Jones Golf
Trail – Cambrian Ridge (U.S.), and Skeleton Coast, a fictional course set
along the African coastline. Players will also be able to enjoy hundreds
of additional courses created by fans and Microsoft. Courses designed for
"Links 2001" and "Links Championship Edition" are compatible with "Links
2003."
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More realistic control over every shot – New
Real-Time Swing lets the mouse become the club, with ball physics
factoring in speed, tempo, direction and course conditions in real-time so
each shot more closely simulates an actual golf shot. Traditional
"click"-swing and PowerStroke methods also included.
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Players manage their own professional careers –
Compete against improved AI opponents in a single-player career. All-new,
highly-detailed 3-D golfers come alive with motion-captured moves
detailing their swing types and personalities. Play as or against Sergio
Garcia, Jesper Parnevik, David Toms and Annika Sorenstam, or create a
character.
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Design your dream course with the powerful Arnold
Palmer Course Designer – A new library of hundreds of objects, new
texture resolutions up to 512 x 512, and new tools make the most powerful,
3-D real-time course design tool better than ever.
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Challenge family and friends online, anytime – The
all new Links® Match Maker enables players to join matches with other
online players at any time from within the game. Players can also create
their own custom tournaments, then run the tournament through email using
the new Email Tourney feature.
Age of Mythology

Age of Mythology transports players to a time when heroes
did battle with monsters of legend and the gods intervened in the affairs of
mortal men. Players wage war using human armies and diplomacy, progress
through development ages, enhance military and economic performance with
improvements, and manage economics through resource gathering and trade.
Mythology enters the mix when players call upon the gods to act on their
behalf or reinforce their armies with more than 35 mythological creatures.
Ensemble Studios' new 3-D engine adds a deep richness of graphical detail
and creates a unique new title based on the ancient cultural history of the
Greek, Norse, and Egyptian mythologies, which are divided into nine detailed
civilizations.
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Simply stated, the game is gorgeous – Age of
Mythology features beautiful environments, buildings, units and special
effects rendered in full 3-D using Ensemble's revolutionary new engine.
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A compelling and immersive world – Players can now
heed the wishes of the gods and petition them for favors throughout
gameplay. Persuade Isis to strike the center of an enemy's city with a
meteor, enlist Thor to trap opponents in a snow squall or have Ra unleash
a devastating tornado upon an opponent's village.
Powerful single-player capability - Epic
single-player campaign takes players through all three mythologies over
the course of 35 scenarios seamlessly integrated with in-game cinematics.
A game for everyone – Age of Mythology's diverse
game modes offer a variety of settings and options for novice and
experienced real time strategy fans alike.
Preserving the fun of "Age" while adding new gameplay
– Age of Mythology preserves many familiar elements from the Age of
Empires games, including wonders, technology trees, ages, and civilization
bonuses.
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