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| Windows Live Messenger "minimise-me" |  | 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 character ... [read more >>] | | 17 July 2008, 07:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft's Vision of Bridging Mobile Phones, the Web and PCs Evolves |  | Microsoft's vision of bridging mobile phones with web-based services and computers evolves continually and the latest aspect of the company's complex strategy involves the acquisition of MobiComp. The Redmond giant is essentially trying to enhance the offerings of its Mobile Communications Business through new services aimed at mobile phone users. MobiComp's data protection and management services will, in the futu ... [read more >>] | | 27 June 2008, 08:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Updated Windows Live SkyDrive Available |  | On May 22, 2008, Microsoft introduced the second update this year to Windows Live SkyDrive, adding new functionality but also opening up the free online storage service to more markets around the world. Users will be able to notice a few changes across SkyDrive, mainly additional features designed to deliver ri ... [read more >>] | | 23 May 2008, 03:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Releases of Windows Live and Live Search for Windows Mobile |  | New versions of Windows Live and Live Search are now available to users with devices running Microsoft's Windows operating system for mobile phones. Windows Live for Windows Mobile is an application that needs to be installed on the mobile phone in order to provide access to the services offered by the Redmond company. The latest release is set up to expand the functionality provided via the integration of Windows Live and Windows Mob ... [read more >>] | | 16 May 2008, 07:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows Live Comes to BlackBerry Smartphones |  | In a move similar to the partnership Microsoft signed with Nokia in August 2007, the Redmond company inked an agreement with Research in Motion designed to bring Windows Live to BlackBerry smartphones. Not all the services available under the Windows Live brand umbrella will be made available to BlackBerry customers, the focus being placed on Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger. Both the Redmond company's mail service as w ... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2008, 09:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Live Search Products Goes Against Google Product Search |  | At the end of the past week, Microsoft shipped another overhauled piece of the new Live Search roll-out. In this manner, the Live Search Products service not only fits into the latest wave of Live Search releases, but also delivers the first signs of life of Live Search's e-commerce orie ... [read more >>] | | 22 April 2008, 06:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Reduce the Load MSNBot Delivers to Servers |  | Microsoft is currently rolling out a range of improvements to its Windows Live platform of services and applications. And the optimizations are by no means limited to the surface. The Redmond company began introducing the new release of Live Search family of services and solutions l ... [read more >>] | | 21 April 2008, 11:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Kills Outlook Express Legacy Protocol for Windows Live Hotmail |  | At the end of the past week, Microsoft announced that it was killing the DAV legacy email client protocol for Windows Live Hotmail. Distributed Authoring and Versioning protocol was still supported only in Outlook Express offering users the possibility to centralize their Windows Live Hotmail content into the default email desktop client of Windows XP. DAV is a protocol similar to POP3 or IMAP, permitting communications between an email cl ... [read more >>] | | 21 April 2008, 11:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Live Search – The Evolution |  | Microsoft's Live Search, overhauled at the end of the past year with the largest upgrade since its introduction in 2005, continues to evolve. According to the Redmond company, the new release of Live Search family of services and solutions, spanning over News, Video, and Products, is already being rolled out. On the surface, users are bound to notice first the redesign introduced to the ... [read more >>] | | 18 April 2008, 07:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Live Mesh – Mesh It Up with Microsoft |  | Next week, Microsoft is going to demonstrate the Live Mesh service. The Web 2.0 Expo scheduled to take place on April 22-25, 2008, in San Francisco, will be the stage for the initial introduction of Live Mesh. Built under the company's Live brand umbrella, Live Mesh was prefigured as early as MIX08 in Las Vegas at the debut of March. In this year's MIX Internet-centric conference, the opening keynote featured Ray Ozzie ... [read more >>] | | 14 April 2008, 04:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Adds 42.85 TB (TeraBytes) Update to Virtual Earth |  | On March 25, 2008, Microsoft has introduced a 42.85 TB (terabytes) update to Virtual Earth. The Redmond company is racing with its online platform combining geospatial data, rich imagery, as well as mapping and location information against the Mountain View-based Search giant's Google Earth. And in this context, two digit terabytes updates have not been uncommon. Quite to the contrary in fact, it has become a tradition for M ... [read more >>] | | 26 March 2008, 13:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The New Live Search Did Nothing for Microsoft |  | Back in September 2006, as a part of the evolution to Windows Live Wave 2.0, Microsoft introduced the new Live Search. But six months later, the largest update in the history of Live Search since the service was introduced in January 2005 did nothing for Microsoft on the search engine market. The Redmond company's search audience, as well as its slice of searches, continues to erode month after month with Google swallowing a ... [read more >>] | | 20 March 2008, 04:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows (Vista SP1, XP SP3, Windows 7) - SkyDrive Synchronization |  | Microsoft plans to deliver an intimate connection between its Windows client and its cloud storage service hosted under the Windows Live umbrella brand. The Redmond company has continually been hinting at the bridging of its Windows desktop operating system with the Windows Live suite of services and products, as an integral part of the company's Software plus Services business model. According to Microsoft, one of the aspec ... [read more >>] | | 18 March 2008, 08:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| God Starts Going Digital for Microsoft |  | Don't expect revelations anytime soon as a consequence of a query performed in a search engine. But at the same time, get yourself ready to access an entire new world of information that was previously less accessible to the general public. The tendency for content to migrate from traditional analog media to the Internet reverberates through all aspects of life, and religion is by no means an exception. Just as rival Google, Microsoft ... [read more >>] | | 10 March 2008, 05:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Virtual Earth Got an Infusion of 3D, Orthographic Aerial, Satellite and Bird's Eye Imagery |  | Microsoft's Virtual Earth is in a continual growth process. At the time being, the general perspective is that Google Earth is a much more elaborate, content-rich and more popular service than Virtual Earth, and while that may very well be the case, the Redmond company has by no means thrown down the towel. In fact, Virtual Earth is expanding from month to month, generally via updates weighing in at double digit Terabytes .
This wa ... [read more >>] | | 04 March 2008, 03:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Digital Lifestyle on Parade |  | Microsoft is building a unique perspective over its technology with an emphasis on digital life. The fact of the matter is that the Redmond company has increasingly been throwing around concepts like digital life and digital lifestyle, and the video embedded at the bottom o ... [read more >>] | | 03 March 2008, 04:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Acknowledges Additional Windows Live ID, Messenger, Hotmail Outage |  | Earlier this week, namely on February 26, the Windows Live online suite of products and services was hit with an outage generated by an undisclosed issue with the Windows Live ID sign in process. According to initial reports from the company, the worldwide outage directly impacted the users that were not already signed in their Windows Live accounts. Access to a variety of services and products under the Windows Live brand umbrella, from M ... [read more >>] | | 29 February 2008, 03:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Embraces Cross-Domain Sitemaps |  | Even though the three major players on the search engine market are stuck in an endless three-horse race for audience, market share and the biggest slice of the online advertising industry, Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have no problems joining hands from time to time. Especially if collaborating will benefit all search engine developers equally. It is the case of support for cross-domain sitemaps. One thing that Microsoft needs to do with L ... [read more >>] | | 28 February 2008, 05:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows Digital Life, from Vista to Windows 7 |  | Windows Digital Life is an excellent example of the lifestyle Microsoft has envisioned for end users. And since we are indeed talking about the Redmond company, you have to realize that the perspective is exclusively centered around the Windows brand. I say the Windows brand because Microsoft's example of a digital life is not limited to the operating system, but involves a much wider range of products and services brought together un ... [read more >>] | | 27 February 2008, 08:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Sky's the Limit: 5GB of Free Online Storage Courtesy of Microsoft |  | With its Windows Live suite of products and services, Microsoft is following the general tendency of traditional software solutions migrating online. Offerings under the Windows Live brand are illustrative examples of the new Software as a Service and Software plus Service strategy, a small aspect of both being storage. Microsoft's SkyDrive is noth ... [read more >>] | | 25 February 2008, 04:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft: Windows Live Messenger 8.5 – One Way or the Other! |  | It's Windows Live Messenger 8.5, one way or the other for the users of Microsoft's instant messaging clients that are still using the beta builds of version 8.5. Tailored to the Windows Vista operating system, the final bits of Windows Live Messenger 8.5 were made available at ... [read more >>] | | 20 February 2008, 12:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows Live Messenger Goes Completely Cross-Platform |  | Windows Live Messenger, along with the remaining Windows Live products and services, is no longer limited to running on top of Windows Mobile. Microsoft is effectively kicking the Windows Live Mobile Developer Program up a notch, making the mobile versions of the Windows Live services completely cross-platform. At the Mobile World Congress 2008, the Redmond company announced that the new version of Windows Live Mobile Developer P ... [read more >>] | | 11 February 2008, 09:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| A 3D Virtual World on Top of Virtual Earth? |  | Is Microsoft preparing to build a 3D virtual world on top of its Virtual Earth mapping and location platform? Well, truth be told, this scenario is not as far-fetched as it might seem initially. Online hotspots, such as Second Life, are delivering virtual worlds complete with societies and functional economies. And Microsoft's Virtual Earth might offer the same in the coming future. A 3D Virtual Earth universe could be in the making, ... [read more >>] | | 08 February 2008, 04:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft: The Yahoo Brand Will Live! But Will It Windows Live? |  | Microsoft Chief Executive Officer, Steve Ballmer, has confirmed that the Yahoo brand will live. The Redmond company came out into the open with a $44.6 billion unsolicited acquisition proposal for Yahoo after almost two years of failed private negotiations. On the same day when Microsoft went public with the big, one of the questions faced by Kevin Johnson, President, Platform & Services Division, was about the future of the Yahoo bran ... [read more >>] | | 08 February 2008, 03:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Introducing Codename Rome and Windows Live Wave 3 |  | In the fall of 2007, Microsoft evolved the Windows Live online suite of products and services in all its aspects. From the desktop clients Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Photo Gallery to online offerings, such as Live Search, Windows Live Wave 2 touched all aspects of the Redmond company's presence in the cloud. And yes, while the potential takeover of Yahoo, following the completion of a $44.6 billion transac ... [read more >>] | | 05 February 2008, 03:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Is Microsoft Censoring Windows 7 from the Internet? |  | Whether Microsoft likes it or not, the truth is that the Windows 7 genie is out of the bottle. For the Redmond company, there are two viable options at this point, to either attempt sweeping Windows 7 under the rug, or to completely ignore the ... [read more >>] | | 25 January 2008, 08:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows 7 Will Stretch into the Cloud, Beyond Vista SP1 and XP SP3 |  | If you think that Windows Vista, or Vista Service Pack 1, or even Windows XP Service Pack 3 are the apex when it comes down to the Windows operating system, then you should reconsider... Microsoft revealed that Windows 7 would go beyond both Vista SP1 and XP 3, to deliver an ent ... [read more >>] | | 24 January 2008, 10:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Now Live Search Has Got an Actual Chance to Leave Google in the Dust |  | According to the latest statistics for the search engine market, Microsoft's Live Search is not doing that great. The move to Live Search 2,0 has done little to boost Live Search, and the Redmond company's search engine is still the third behind Google and Yahoo in terms of audience and query volume. But at the same time, Live Search has got an actual chance to leave both Google and Yahoo in the dust. Literally! The images includ ... [read more >>] | | 23 January 2008, 03:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Shares the Love, but Not with Linux |  | Microsoft has put up an invitation to share the love, but not with Linux (just bear with me, it will make sense in the end). With Valentine's Day just a few weeks away, the teams over at Windows Live and Microsoft Silverlight ... [read more >>] | | 22 January 2008, 09:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Free Utilities from Windows Live |  | If you are a Windows user, you might find useful many tools provided by Windows Live services. Practically, you can interact with many Windows Live services at the desktop level through various applications. These services and applications promote the principle "Connect and share anywhere" ( ... [read more >>] | | 11 January 2008, 14:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| McAfee: Windows Live SkyDrive Serving Spam |  | McAfee has warned that Windows Live SkyDrive is serving spam. The security company reveals that the fault does not lay with Microsoft's free online hosting service, but with its users. More specifically, malicious users have started abusing SkyDriver, formerly known as Windows Live Folder, in order to send out spam. Chris Barto ... [read more >>] | | 11 January 2008, 05:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Reloads the Windows Vista Wow |  | Well, Microsoft has really geared up for 2008, and is reloading the Windows Vista Wow. In early 2007, as Vista hit the shelves worldwide, the Redmond company accompanied the operating system with an estimated $500 million marketing campaign. The new initiative is somewhat less expensive and focused on the YouTube video sharing service. At the end of December 2007, nine videos were uploaded to the site focused on Windows Vista and Windows L ... [read more >>] | | 03 January 2008, 05:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Why Did Microsoft Move Away from MSN to Windows Live Hotmail? |  | Windows Live Mail is, by all means, just the latest pit stop of Microsoft's web-based email service. And at the same time, the Redmond company will not stop the evolution of Windows Live Hotmail at this point in time or at this stage. Microsoft has already revealed the existence of plans to continue to grow the email service, and in this context, ... [read more >>] | | 20 December 2007, 06:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Cloaking and Live Search 2.0 |  | At the end of September 2007, Microsoft introduced the first major evolution to Live Search since the search engine debuted under the Windows Live brand umbrella in 2005. Moving to version 2.0 meant for the Redmond company delivering enhancements to a variety of aspects, making up the Live Search puzzle. However, increased focus was placed on boosting the relevance of the results returned to user queries. Nathan Buggia, Lead Program Manage ... [read more >>] | | 14 December 2007, 06:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows Live Critical Updates Coming Up |  | The growth of Windows Live into its next stage of evolution has been synonymous with the revamping of all aspects of the Microsoft online suite of products and services. The multifaceted Windows Live debuted its transition into a new generation in mid 2007, with Chris Jones, corporate vice president, Windows Live Experience Program Management announcing a renewed focus on the Software + Services business strategy. In this context ... [read more >>] | | 04 December 2007, 03:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Pumps New Resources into Its Advertising Infrastructure |  | While racing for the number 2 position on the online advertising market, in the next three to five years – according to Kevin Johnson, President of Platforms & Services - Microsoft has already debuted pumping steroids into its underlying infrastructure. Starting today, Microsoft adCenter and Live Search will have extra resources to offer advertisers, search marketers and webmasters, namely two new tools and an accreditation p ... [read more >>] | | 03 December 2007, 09:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Get Ready for the Next Stage in the Evolution of Windows Live |  | In October and November, Microsoft has wrapped up its Wave 2 evolution of Windows Live. In this stage, the Redmond company's online suite of products and services was revamped with the release of a luxuriant range of new versions. With the growth of Live Search to phase 2.0, Microsoft has also brought to the table next generation variants for ... [read more >>] | | 03 December 2007, 04:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows Vista + Windows Live = www.WOW? |  | Microsoft is really putting its back into bridging the traditional Windows client and its evolving Windows Live cloud operating system. There are however many unknowns in an equation that would sum up Windows Vista and Windows Live, and perhaps the most relevant is focused on the lack of a comprehensive and stable strategy behind the bridging of the operating system with the online suite of products and services. Although Microsoft envisio ... [read more >>] | | 29 November 2007, 07:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Says Windows = Digital Lifestyle |  | In Microsoft's vision, the Windows brand, along with the products developed under its umbrella, are crucial components of the digital lifestyle. From the server side to the desktop and then to the world wide web, Windows is synonymous with the concept of digital life, in the view of the Redmond company, just as Google has grown to become the equivalent of search. And the fact of the matter is that taking into account the latest estima ... [read more >>] | | 23 November 2007, 03:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Is Mute on the Future of Windows Live |  | Believe it of not but Microsoft is cooking some "great stuff" for Windows Live. Now, the term could not have been more general and abstract, but the fact of the matter is that it comprises all the information the Redmond company is willing to share about the future of its cloud suite of products and services. As is the case with the forthcoming versions of the Windows client and server operating system, Microsoft is muting all de ... [read more >>] | | 22 November 2007, 07:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows Live Messenger 9.0 – First Signs of Life |  | Windows Live Messenger 9.0, Microsoft's forthcoming version of its instant messaging client, is showing the first signs of life. At the beginning of November the Redmond company wrapped up the evolution of its Windows Live suite of services and products, and finished up introducing Wave 2 of its cloud platform. Windows Live Messenger was one of the Windows Live puzzle pieces that fit into place in Wave 2, with ... [read more >>] | | 21 November 2007, 03:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Introducing Windows Live Community Builder |  | There are a multitude of aspects to Windows Live, and as the online suite of services and product evolves, Microsoft highlights the addition of new nuances to its cloud platform. The Windows Live Community Builder is but the latest service to be unveiled under the multifaceted Windows Live brand umbrella. The offering is addressed at a wide range of audience from political groups to hobbyist websites and is delivered free of charge. Accord ... [read more >>] | | 19 November 2007, 04:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Next Generation of Windows Live Did Little for Microsoft |  | At the debut of October, Microsoft was beginning to wrap up with the next stage in the evolution of its Windows Live suite of platform and services. Stepping up the Windows Live game is a move designed to impact Google's domination on the search engine market but also to grow Microsoft's online platform. In the end, it all comes down to control over the Internet audience and the inherent advertising market. Still, the next genera ... [read more >>] | | 19 November 2007, 03:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Live Search Webmaster Center Is... Live |  | Microsoft's Live webmaster portal is opened for business. The Redmond company's Live Search Webmaster Center is a set of online offerings designed to work in conjunction with the new Live Search 2.0. Addressed at webmasters, the online service and tools have evolved quietly in private beta so far, but as of November 14, Microsoft has opened i ... [read more >>] | | 16 November 2007, 03:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Welcome to the New Windows Live Admin Center |  | Windows Live Custom Domains has grown up concomitantly with the introduction of the second wave in the evolution of Windows Live. In this context, Windows Live Custom Domains moved past the limitations associated with a hosted email service and is now positioned as a more complex set of offerings. Microsoft in fact underlined that the rechristening of the service is only the most superficial of the modifications delivered to Win ... [read more >>] | | 12 November 2007, 08:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows Live Translator, No Longer Lost in Translation |  | The growth of Windows Live Translator was an integer part of Microsoft's evolution of Windows Live into the next stage, as announced in the summer of this year. Aiming to blur the language barriers from online destinations, products and se ... [read more >>] | | 12 November 2007, 06:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Messenger, Writer, Toolbar, OneCare Family Safety, Photo Gallery, Mail – Upgrade Now! |  | With its Windows Live suite of products and services, Microsoft is delivering a comprehensive receipt designed to permit end users to connect, communicate and share independent of location and platform. Earlier this week the Redmond company evolved Windows Live into its next stage of evolution. The new generation of Windows Live was prefigured in mid 2007, w ... [read more >>] | | 08 November 2007, 10:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Start Your Scheduling with Windows Live Calendar Beta! |  | Concomitantly with the launch of the new suite of Windows Live products and services, Microsoft also took the wraps off the beta version of what it refers to as the next-generation web calendar: Windows Live Calendar. At this time, Windows Live Calendar can be accessed for testing, but users should keep in mind the fact that the service is still in beta stage and as such, there are still caveats to be resolved.
"From the get-go, w ... [read more >>] | | 08 November 2007, 04:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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