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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced on Friday that users of its popular Nokia Messaging service would be able to enjoy the Windows Live Messenger on their homescreens. The company has included the widely known Microsoft instant messaging application in the push-email service so as to provide users with more co... |
21 November 2009
02:29 GMT |
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Microsoft has given green light to the final steps of the mandatory upgrades, designed to migrate its instant messaging community to the latest iteration of Windows Live Messenger. Users of the Redmond company’s older releases of the instant messaging client have been forced to upgrade to Windows Live Messenger... |
6 November 2009
09:55 GMT |
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While it is in the process of forcing users of its IM client to upgrade to the latest version of the client-based application, Microsoft has introduced a new version of Windows Live Messenger. Designed in order to allow end users to “IM anywhere,” the new flavor of the IM client is exclusively web-based, ... |
13 October 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Users that have failed to upgrade to the latest iteration of the Microsoft instant messaging client will have little choice moving on. This is valid specifically for customers running versions 8.1 or 8.5 of Windows Live Messenger, but not to worry, moving forward those using v9.0 will get the same treatment. Fact is ... |
15 September 2009
11:51 GMT |
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The latest upgrade to Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (2009) was released on August 19th, 2009, and continues to be up for grabs, but the release will not be available only as a standalone download. In fact, Microsoft has already started to serve Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (2009) 14.0.8089.726 as an automatic update. The ... |
28 August 2009
03:10 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed officially that the Taiwan earthquake on Monday 17th, 2009, has impacted Windows Live Messenger users in China, disrupting the service. The quake early on Monday morning, approximately 6.5 in magnitude on the Richter Scale, had its epicenter 190 kilometers East-Southeast of the city of Hualie... |
18 August 2009
11:15 GMT |
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Microsoft's instant messaging client turned 10 today, July 22, 2009. It was on July 22, 1999 that the IM client became available to the public, although, at that time, the innovative communication solution was launched under the MSN brand, since Windows Live was yet to go, well, live. 10 years after the launch o... |
22 July 2009
11:42 GMT |
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In a move designed to stop the contributors to the process of undermining the security and privacy of Windows Live users, Microsoft announced that it had debuted legal action against Funmobile Ltd., a Hong Kong-based company led by Christian Heilesen and Henrick Heilesen. The civil lawsuit filed in King County Superi... |
17 July 2009
07:55 GMT |
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With a change in licensing strategy Microsoft is making it easier for customers running Office Communications Server to bridge their solutions with Windows Live services. As of July 1st, 2009, Microsoft has renamed the Live Communications Server Public IM Connectivity (LCS PIC) license the Office Communications Serve... |
3 July 2009
08:53 GMT |
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Microsoft is killing its old web-based instant messaging client under the MSN umbrella in favor of the Cloud version of Windows Live Messenger. According to the Redmond company, the last day of June will be synonymous with the death of MSN Web Messenger. For the software giant the move is nothing short of smart house... |
29 June 2009
02:57 GMT |
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Microsoft applauded the momentum of its Live@edu as 14 new Universities from around the world decided to embrace the Cloud-based email service for their students, faculty, staff and alumni. In excess of 200,000 students worldwide will now have potential access to the suite of online services that are integral compone... |
22 June 2009
09:31 GMT |
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Over 70 million registered users worldwide will be able to enjoy Photobucket's new Visual Search feature, powered by Microsoft's alternative to Flash, Silverlight. In order to evolve the online digital image repository, Photobucket worked with Microsoft and EffectiveUI, indicating that the challenge was to ... |
16 June 2009
10:01 GMT |
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Come July 22nd, 2009, Microsoft's instant messaging client will celebrate its 10-year anniversary. Now labeled Windows Live Messenger, and having been transitioned under the Windows Live brand, the application was known as MSN Messenger at launch, in the past millennium. The latest migration suffered by the IM c... |
16 June 2009
09:06 GMT |
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Microsoft is hard at work to streamline the integration of its instant messaging client into third-party websites. In this context, the Redmond company is looking to make it as easy as possible for developers to build Windows Live messenger functionality into their content. The first step for the software giant was t... |
28 May 2009
07:27 GMT |
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Windows Live Messenger is, as a general rule, available for free to all users worldwide. But of course that there are the proverbial exceptions to every rule. And Microsoft's instant messaging client is an illustrative example in this context. This because the Redmond company has instituted Windows Live Messenge... |
21 May 2009
10:45 GMT |
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At just a little over one month since Windows Live Messenger went live, Microsoft has introduced the first refresh to the solution. Performance improvements were among the changes delivered by the refresh, the Redmond company confirmed. Users will be able to notice that examples of the integration of Windows Live Mes... |
30 April 2009
07:13 GMT |
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Microsoft has lived up to its promise to bring instant messaging functionality to its online email service. In this regard, the Redmond company started rolling out Web IM for Windows Live Hotmail at the start of the week in selected markets around the world. The software giant promised that all Hotmail users would en... |
22 April 2009
04:21 GMT |
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Microsoft is moving ahead with the evolution of Windows Live Wave 3, and in this regard it has introduced instant messaging functionality to its online email service. As of the start of this week, Windows Live Hotmail users will be able to IM with their friends via Windows Live Messenger, right from their email accou... |
21 April 2009
06:41 GMT |
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Windows Live Messenger Library 3.0 is capable of fueling faster IM's according to Microsoft. Version 3.0 of the library is available with the March 2009 release of the Messenger Web Toolkit, which was launched at MIX09. Jeenandra Kumar, software design engineer, Messenger Platform Team, emphasized that Windows L... |
10 April 2009
10:53 GMT |
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Whatever you do, do not change you email address for Windows Live Messenger, even if Microsoft’s instant messaging client tells you to. On April 7, 2009, the software giant revealed that the Windows Live Messenger had started notifying users that they needed to get a new email address in order to continue being... |
8 April 2009
14:21 GMT |
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Just ahead of MIX09 I told you that Microsoft was gearing up to make available the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit. And in fact, as of the first day of the conference, the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit is now live and available to developers. The toolkit is essentially a collection of resources including a se... |
19 March 2009
06:29 GMT |
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March 18, 2009 will be synonymous with the introduction of the new Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit for social websites. March 18 is also the first day of MIX09, the Redmond company's Internet-centric conference in Las Vegas. This year, the Messenger web platform will be showcased in no less than three session... |
17 March 2009
07:10 GMT |
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Having ripped out traditional components from Windows 7 completely, including the default email, photo viewing, and instant messaging clients, Microsoft is still advertising Windows Live and the next iteration of the Windows client as nothing short of a pair. Back in 2007, applications such as Windows Mail, Windows M... |
13 March 2009
14:21 GMT |
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Microsoft Corp. and Gemalto announced today at the Mobile World Congress a partnership to bring Windows Live Messenger services to mobile phone users. The two companies announced that a new Windows Live Messenger client application would be offered to the mass market pre-installed on phone Subscriber Identity Module ... |
16 February 2009
03:22 GMT |
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The content on Windows Live servers is closely monitored and filtered by Microsoft as the company is laboring to keep users of its suite of applications and services in the Cloud secure while online. Jamie Cannon, a product manager on the Windows Live team, indicated that the software giant was constantly working to ... |
6 February 2009
06:47 GMT |
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A new variant of Windows Live Messenger, but web-based, is now live and accessible to users. However, the release is not a web-based version of the Windows Live Messenger (9.0 – 2009) release. Fact is that the Internet version of the instant messaging client is a project from MSN Taiwan designed to take advanta... |
30 January 2009
05:07 GMT |
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Next week, Microsoft is gearing up to make an important step toward unifying the code bases for all the versions of Windows Live Messenger Library. In this context, the Redmond company announced that, by the end of the following week, Windows Live Messenger Library v2.0 would be modified so that it would point to the... |
23 January 2009
08:50 GMT |
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The popularity of Microsoft's instant messaging client is indisputable, with the Redmond company enjoying the world's largest IM community, but at the same time it's not all about the Windows Live Messenger client. According to the software giant, the Windows Live Messenger IM Control, as well as the P... |
23 January 2009
04:46 GMT |
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Since the introduction of Windows Live for Windows Mobile in mid-2008, Microsoft has been dealing with a range of problems reported by end-users revolving around the Hotmail component of the package. However, the Redmond company has yet to resolve all the issues involving poor synchronization between Windows Live Hot... |
29 December 2008
08:55 GMT |
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On the path to Wave 3, the Windows Live collection of services and applications debuted into Beta earlier this year, and has been crawling toward RTW ever since. As of December 15, 2008, Windows Live made yet another step forward, but still managed not to lose the Beta tag. At the start of this week, Microsoft introd... |
16 December 2008
14:41 GMT |
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Firefox 2.0 (and later) and Firefox 3.0 (and later) have been the most vulnerable pieces of software for the Windows platform in 2008, according to Bit9. In “The Dirty Dozen” - 2008’s Most Popular Applications with Critical Security Vulnerabilities whitepaper, Bit9 gives the first place to Mozilla&#... |
16 December 2008
09:31 GMT |
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Just as Google is bundling Chrome with YouTube in order for the success of the service to rub off on the browser, so is Microsoft attempting to increase the installed base of its instant messaging client via the alliance with Facebook. With just so much room for growth on home soil, the path to increased audience is ... |
15 December 2008
14:21 GMT |
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Microsoft will discontinue a tool designed to permit developers to build bots for Windows Live Messenger. Come mid-2009, the Redmond company will completely retire the Windows Live Agents software development kit. The announcement was delivered concomitantly with the availability of the latest version of the SDK, nam... |
28 November 2008
06:01 GMT |
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With the evolution of Windows Live suite of applications and services, Microsoft is introducing not only under-the-hood optimizations, new features and capabilities, but also a design overhaul. The revamping of the visual style ranges from the graphical user interface of the client and Cloud services, to the icons re... |
14 November 2008
13:07 GMT |
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Microsoft has officially started rolling out the next generation of its Windows Live suite of applications and services. According to the Redmond company, Windows Live Wave 3 will start being unveiled in the U.S. over the coming weeks. However, the Wave 3 updates will stretch well into early 2009 as far as the global... |
13 November 2008
12:58 GMT |
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Microsoft has dumped former translation partner Systran from all its products and services and implemented instead exclusively its in-house developed Machine Translation technology. Dubbed Microsoft Translator, and built by Microsoft Research, Systran's replacement is now featured into a variety of the company&#... |
9 September 2008
07:36 GMT |
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As a project, the Windows Live Messenger machine translation bot was introduced without much fuss in the summer of 2007. Since then the bot has evolved, and on September 2, the Microsoft Research Machine Translation team announced the availability of the new Windows Live Messenger Translation Bot. Fathered by Helveci... |
3 September 2008
06:07 GMT |
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Microsoft is currently cooking Windows Live Wave 3, and has reportedly moved the development process past Milestone 1 stage and into M2. Windows Live Messenger 9.0, the successor of version 8.5, is an integral part of Windows Live Wave 3, but the Redmond company is not saying a single word on the next iteration of it... |
1 August 2008
06:37 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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Microsoft is by no means shy of targeting specific consumer segments, and the Latino community in the United States is of a consistent enough size to attract the company's attention. MSN Latino Mobile is the latest initiative coming from the software giant aimed at making its MSN portal available to U.S.-based H... |
14 July 2008
11:34 GMT |
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At the intersection between search (but not limited at Live Search) and Windows Live Messenger, SearchTogether is designed to make searching the web no longer an individual task. Developed as a plug-in for Internet Explorer 7, SearchTogether's functionality enables groups of users to perform searches and to shar... |
5 June 2008
11:57 GMT |
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Instant messaging is obviously one of the most popular activities nowadays with millions of users connecting to such applications every day. There is a large number of instant messaging clients on the web, including here the giants Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ or less-known programs which gained audie... |
27 May 2008
04:56 GMT |
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Microsoft might very well be a perpetual bronze winner in a three horse race against Google and Yahoo in terms of online advertising, but the company is looking to get a head start when it comes down to mobile devices. In this context, the Redmond giant announced that it had adapted some of the services it offers for... |
21 May 2008
09:53 GMT |
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Microsoft has evolved its instant messaging client, but the evolution does not involve the next version of Windows Live Messenger, labeled as 9.0 and released initially in November 2007, as a private Beta. In fact, there is still no word from Microsoft as to the future of the successor of Windows Live Messenger 8.5, ... |
13 May 2008
05:15 GMT |
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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,... |
12 May 2008
09:41 GMT |
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Windows Live Messenger is no longer blocking legitimate websites, the company revealed on May 11, after users reported that the instant messaging client was preventing access to various URLs including Google's YouTube video web property. The first complaints came from users who discovered that it was impossible ... |
12 May 2008
03:24 GMT |
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Windows Live Hotmail has joined Windows Live Messenger in order to extend the support of the "i'm" initiative. Microsoft debuted "i'm" back in 2007 as a way to enable Windows Live Messenger users to have a say as to where would a portion of the Redmond company's advertising revenue from its instant me... |
6 May 2008
04:03 GMT |
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Microsoft's "i'm" initiative associated by default with the company's instant messaging client has managed to pull in excess of $1.3 million in its first year. The "i'm" initiative was designed to offer a small portion of the advertising revenues received by the Redmond company through the use of ... |
23 April 2008
06:06 GMT |
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Via a new move on the Windows Live front, Microsoft is placing its instant messaging service firmly at the center of the social networking universe. The Redmond company's Windows Live Messenger is already on the top of the world in terms of audience, and Microsoft aims to solidify its position with a landmark de... |
26 March 2008
12:35 GMT |
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Browsers and operating systems are still the preferred avenue for attacks, vulnerability exploits and spreading malicious code. But at the same time, the consistent effort poured by developers to bulletproof the main attack vectors from Windows Vista to Linux, and from Internet Explorer 7 to Firefox, means that malwa... |
24 March 2008
16:41 GMT |
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