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It’s almost that time of the year again, and Microsoft is not wasting any time getting into the holiday spirit. The company has all the ingredients available, Santa Claus, elves, Christmas tree, and even a kid that persistently wants an Xbox 360 and would hear nothing else. Just watch the video embedded at the ... |
5 November 2009
09:33 GMT |
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Microsoft has drastically overhauled the MSN butterfly logo and the portal that goes along with it, but not all of the website’s 600 million visitors per month will be able to enjoy the changes. The Redmond company has limited the MSN redesign, which it catalogued as the most significant MSN home page revamp i... |
4 November 2009
07:44 GMT |
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Microsoft has signed the death sentence of MSN Direct and is informing customers that they will be able to continue using the service for two years and a couple of months before it will be discontinued. MSN Direct was designed to accompany the company’s smart “Spot” watches, products that have thems... |
28 October 2009
11:29 GMT |
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Developer Adam Iser has released a new version of the popular instant messaging client for Mac OS X, Adium. Replicating most of iChat’s features, Adium can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo etc. Fans can download the latest stable and beta versions of the software right here, on Softpedia. Adium combines nume... |
21 August 2009
09:38 GMT |
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Back in 2006 Google acquired YouTube for no less than $1.65 billion, and Microsoft was building its very own YouTube clone dubbed Soapbox. Three years later, Google's YouTube is flourishing, and Microsoft's Soapbox is shutting down. The Redmond company sent an email notice to all Soapbox users regarding the... |
22 July 2009
07:56 GMT |
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Microsoft has unveiled a tribute page to Michael Jackson on MSN, essentially a Silverlight application built by ShootHill by taking advantage of the DeepZoom capabilities of Silverlight. The main image of the King of Pop, who died on June 25th 2009, is put together using touched up variants of hundreds of pictures fe... |
3 July 2009
08:03 GMT |
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Microsoft is already delivering the next step in the evolution of a celebrity-focused website it introduced just four months ago. The Redmond company indicated that content would expand with the inclusion of Twitter and celebrity blogs. Wonderwall now features a new aggregator designed to bring fans the latest update... |
27 May 2009
05:21 GMT |
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Microsoft has overhauled its MSN City Guides online destination providing users with a range of enhancements better suited to connect them with locations, businesses, and events across US cities. MSN City Guides is a local offering from the Redmond company tailored specifically to the US market. The main aspect of th... |
8 May 2009
06:00 GMT |
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Come the second quarter of 2009, Microsoft plans to start rolling out a variety of fansites for which it will leverage the Wetpaint fansite platform. No details are yet available on the specific content the Redmond company will focus on; however, more than two dozen fansites are scheduled to be launched by MSN Entert... |
30 April 2009
06:58 GMT |
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This summer Microsoft Advertising will move to the next stage in its evolution. At least this is the promise from Mark Young, general manger of the Global Trade Marketing Advertising team. The move is planned to coincide with the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, which is scheduled to take place betwee... |
22 April 2009
13:25 GMT |
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Over 1,000 people that participated in an MSN survey focused on ecology have pointed to Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz as the greenest celebrities. Microsoft indicated that DiCaprio was a hit with female respondents, while Diaz was the top eco-celeb with male respondents. No less than 40% of the people surveyed r... |
21 April 2009
04:09 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering for download not only the plain vanilla version of Internet Explorer 8, but also a customized variant tailored to its MSN web properties. In this regard, the Redmond company is advertising a copy of Internet Explorer 8 RTW (released to web) that is optimized for MSN. At the same time, the softwa... |
2 April 2009
06:24 GMT |
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Almost half of Americans will risk their money in at least one college basketball tournament pool, even in the context of the global financial crisis. According to data made available by the Redmond company via the MSN Hoops Hysteria Survey, no less than 45% of Americans will continue to wage money on college basketb... |
13 March 2009
11:24 GMT |
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Not even a day into the release of version 1.3.3 RC2, Adium is at its final 1.3.3 release adding tons of changes, major and small, as well as bug fixes. Adium, the popular IM app for Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard, is free to download and use for as long as you wish.According to the changelog for Adium 1.3.3, major chang... |
20 February 2009
08:35 GMT |
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If you thought that the shuffling of services between MSN and Live, plus/minus Windows, was over think again. Microsoft is claiming that the transition was catalyzed by the necessity to “better align products and sites focused on content and community, QnA has moved from the Live Search organization into MSN.&r... |
19 February 2009
06:08 GMT |
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Apple has announced that iPhone / iPod touch users are no longer required to upgrade to Windows Live Hotmail Plus subscription or MSN Premium subscription in order to access their POP3 accounts, be they on Windows Live, Hotmail, or MSN.The company behind the Mac operating system reveals in a recently updated knowledg... |
18 February 2009
08:32 GMT |
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Microsoft is referring to Wonderwall as its new online destination for entertainment and celebrity information. The website, built by MSN in partnership with BermanBraun Interactive, has debuted into Beta, and can already be accessed by users worldwide. Developed with an unconventional interaction model, Wonderwall l... |
5 February 2009
10:40 GMT |
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When it comes down to online video properties, Microsoft is among the bottom feeders that have to live just on the eyeballs not glued to YouTube. In fact, via YouTube, Google managed to serve no less than 40% of the total of 12.7 billion online videos watched in November 2008 in the U.S., grabbing the vast majority o... |
8 January 2009
07:44 GMT |
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Oleg Teterin is a Russian entrepreneur that set out to trademark the infamous online “wink” emoticon, composed of a semi-column, a dash and a parenthesis, to his business, the mobile ad company Superfone. The man says that, since smiley faces such as :-), :) and ;) are also very similar to his trademark, ... |
12 December 2008
08:15 GMT |
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At the start of the next month Microsoft plans to debut a new music service under the MSN and (RED) umbrella brands. However, this time around the Redmond company is not gunning down for iTunes, or any rival services or products. This because (RED)WIRE is designed to save lives. In partnership with the (RED) initiati... |
26 November 2008
06:14 GMT |
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In the context of the worldwide financial crisis, Microsoft is committed to arm military service members in the US with knowledge, when it comes down to steering clear of predatory lending. Via MSN Money, the Redmond giant aims to deliver a set of educational resources, designed to train military service members and ... |
12 November 2008
05:03 GMT |
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Microsoft has geared up its resources for the 2008 Olympic Games, and as the sporting celebration debuts today, August 8, 2008, a wide range of its software products and online services will parade content from the Beijing event. From MSN to Live Search, and from Windows Media Center, to the Xbox console, and to the ... |
8 August 2008
07:39 GMT |
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Microsoft, MSN and NBC are gearing up for what the Redmond company referred to as a groundbreaking online Olympics viewing experience, nothing short of the most widely watched Olympic event via the Internet. And Silverlight 2 will be placed firmly at the heart of the sporting competition, courtesy of the NBCOlympics.... |
30 July 2008
07:13 GMT |
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Microsoft is delivering a new project to the largest community of instant messaging worldwide. Windows Live Messenger users have available a new service dubbed "minimise-me" via MSN on Windows Live. The website will effectively permit users of the Redmond company's instant messaging client to build their own cha... |
17 July 2008
07:47 GMT |
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America's top 10 web brands for June starts with Google and ends with Apple. The ranking was made according to the number of unique users in the U.S. that visited certain pages, and was disclosed by Nielsen Ratings. Google has all the reasons to show off in front of its competitors, since its properties attracte... |
15 July 2008
10:39 GMT |
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Delish.com (also delish.msn.com) is designed to be nothing short of a finger licking website, currently cooking and planned for launch in the fall of this year. Hearst Magazines is fully responsible for all the aspects of the baking process, including not only the development and design, but also the editorial appro... |
9 July 2008
06:57 GMT |
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People who use the MSN web messenger can conveniently and easily talk to people millions of miles away, but can just as well become victims of a phishing attempt or receive countless spam messages that lead to malware spreading web pages. That is why Heise Online is advising all MSN users to exercise caution whenever... |
8 July 2008
09:33 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up to deliver a free taste of Madonna's Hard Candy album via MSN. The Redmond company will offer access at no charge to Madonna's performance at New York City's Roseland Ballroom on April 30. Via Control Room and MSN, fans will be able to watch the singer's concert streamed li... |
30 April 2008
04:03 GMT |
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Back in 2006, Microsoft had a real shot at acquiring YouTube, but failed to do so simply because of the inherent intellectual property issues and the fact that Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer failed see a monetization model implemented in the viral video website. Instead, YouTube went to Google for over $1.5 bi... |
17 April 2008
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Nowadays, Google is more than a search engine, it's a source of information because people looking for details on a certain topic do nothing more than entering Google's address and typing a certain keyword. Because of that, even persons who want to commit suicide turn to Google, although it sounds pretty cy... |
11 April 2008
09:27 GMT |
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Believe it or not but Microsoft thinks it can cure stupid! Moreover, the Redmond company fails to have a high opinion of users. And this is actually an euphemism. Microsoft in fact says that users are pretty dumb... unless they use MSN. Under the slogan "no one wants to look dumb," the Redmond company has begun to pr... |
21 March 2008
08:30 GMT |
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With codename Salsa (initially reported by LiveSide), Microsoft is essentially making its Adobe Flash killer piggyback ride MSN. The move is designed to take advantage of the almost half a billion users of the MSN portal in order for some of the success to rub off on Silverlight. And the new MSN Toolbar is set up to ... |
29 February 2008
09:04 GMT |
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When did Microsoft start tapping into its comedy gene? This is a valid question, whatever you might think of it. Humor was long believed not to be a part of the Microsoft genotype, but increasingly the Redmond company manages to come out with illustrative examples designed to prove just the opposite. In this context,... |
13 February 2008
08:58 GMT |
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Using Instant Messaging services is a 'must' for everybody that has set eyes on a computer. Faster than anything else and less expensive at that, this type of service has caught on big time with all those tech-savvy. Because of that, the attention of hackers has turned on them and attacks have been increasi... |
1 February 2008
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Microsoft will be an integral component of a very exclusive lineup of music stars and Hollywood celebrities that are massing for this year's Grammy Awards. However, the Redmond company will stop short of the Grammy Awards and will certainly not be stealing the night by hugging the most Grammys. Instead, MSN is t... |
31 January 2008
03:11 GMT |
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Microsoft, Google and Yahoo are locked tight in a three online horse race for the largest share of eyeballs. The inherent prize of massing the largest Internet audience is synonymous with a high monetization potential in terms of online advertising. Now, on the online advertising market, Google is the obvious pack le... |
16 January 2008
05:34 GMT |
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When it comes down to browser plug-ins designed to deliver rich media content and interactivity to websites, Microsoft's Silverlight technology, which debuted in 2007, is the undisputed underdog in comparison to Adobe's Flash. But Silverlight is still a young technology, and Microsoft is struggling to get i... |
8 January 2008
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A few days ago, everybody has started talking about a new backdoor that targets the MSN accounts and attempts to steal usernames and passwords stored on an affected system. Today, Roel of Viruslist.com published a closer analysis on the threat, revealing that it was created by someone from Netherlands. "Firstly all t... |
7 January 2008
14:31 GMT |
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Windows Live Hotmail is not a hybrid of the original Windows Live Mail, as it was developed under the Windows Live umbrella brand, and MSN Hotmail. Windows Live Mail was in fact designed from scratch to replace Hotmail, and Microsoft simply acted up on user feedback with a rebranding in early 2007. Ellie Powers, prog... |
28 December 2007
04:05 GMT |
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At the end of 2007, Google got kicked off of the top of the world wide web by Microsoft. The now traditional rivalry between the two companies, one just as acute as the face-off between Microsoft and Apple, is translated in the race for Internet eyeballs. Eyeballs that are subsequently monetized via online advertisin... |
14 December 2007
07:22 GMT |
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You would think that working at Microsoft is a position equivalent with a healthy level of financial comfort. And yet, a former Microsoft domain manager was caught with her hand in the company's multi-billion cookie jar. And despite the fact that Carolyn Gudmundson allegedly appropriated just a few crumbs, no mo... |
10 December 2007
07:28 GMT |
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Bad news for hackers worldwide, it looks like it's going all downhill for them from here on end with their attempts to exploit the Windows Vista activation process. Two updates that will target and disable those back-doors will be included in the first Service Pack (SP1) for the latest version of Microsoft'... |
9 December 2007
15:37 GMT |
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Whether you're a fan of J.K. Rowling's writing or you're just a fan of Emma Watson it doesn't really matter. You get to try out for a part in the next Harry Potter movie to hit the cinemas by November 2008.You'll need to know something about the whole series and especially about one of the la... |
23 November 2007
06:58 GMT |
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The introduction of Live Search 2.0 is synonymous with a contradiction on the search engine market for Microsoft. The company's new generation search engine evolving under the Windows Live could suite of products and services managed, together with MSN Search, to attract a larger volume of searches in October 20... |
22 November 2007
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Microsoft is growing bigger and bigger by the hour and Monday's announcement that it opened the new international headquarters for Microsoft Research, Building 99, confirms it. It is said to be the first of seven new buildings on the West Campus, four of which are to be occupied by the company's Entertainme... |
18 November 2007
10:20 GMT |
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There are many ways to characterize Microsoft, and perhaps the most common is the term monopolist, but the Redmond company is about to undergo a shift of its public persona, and pimp it to the next level. Microsoft is about to go gangsta, and will have the mother of all crews to show for. The Redmond company will enj... |
16 November 2007
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Yesterday brought searchboth.co.uk to the market, and, as you might gather from the title, it is a site that allows its users to search both the Google and Yahoo search engines at the same time.The way this is done is by splitting the screen in half and placing each of the search results on one of the sides. The resu... |
15 November 2007
07:05 GMT |
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Although it happened in the past, I decided to write this article because this type of threats tends to become too dangerous affecting more and more users. Back in October, The Hindu reported that some sort of virus aims to steal the usernames and the passwords of MSN/Windows Live Messenger users by sending them to a... |
13 November 2007
06:48 GMT |
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The search engines available on the Internet have more or less known tricks which allow beginners or advanced users to find their information easier than with a basic search. Google for example has numerous search operators that customize the search query and filter the results to show only the ones demanded by the c... |
9 November 2007
09:11 GMT |
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As Microsoft firmly sets foot into the next stage of evolution for Windows Live suite of products and services, the company has also debuted a brand new email address option for end users. So far, the MSN and Hotmail were the sole alternatives when it came down to Microsoft's email services, now @live.com addres... |
7 November 2007
06:45 GMT |
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