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It’s not uncommon for Microsoft products and projects to overlap in certain areas, sometimes leaving end users perplexed. With the upcoming Beta development milestone for Windows Live Wave 4, the Redmond company will fold Live Mesh, a multi-platform synchronization service, into Windows Live Sync. The Redmond c... |
7 June 2010
07:02 GMT |
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The wait for Windows Live Wave 4 is almost over. According to various third-party sources, Microsoft is gearing up to release both Windows Live services and clients next month. The Redmond company has yet to confirm officially June 2010 releases for Windows Live Wave 4, but numerous leaks from the software giant indi... |
31 May 2010
06:13 GMT |
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A little over three years after it was initially introduced, Microsoft is shutting down an initiative designed to allow users of its email service and instant messaging client to donate money to a number of philanthropic organizations worldwide by doing nothing more than using the company’s offerings. The I&rsq... |
21 May 2010
06:22 GMT |
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Mike Schackwitz, program manager, Windows Live Hotmail team, has confirmed on the 'Inside Windows Live' blog that Microsoft and Apple have teamed up to address the problems iPad users have had with Windows Live Hotmail. The move comes in response to iPad users complaining about problems with Microsoft'... |
18 May 2010
09:26 GMT |
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Although it is hard at work on the next generation of Windows Live Essentials, Microsoft has found the time and resources necessary to kick up a notch current versions of the clients packaged under the Essentials brand umbrella. Windows Live Messenger 2009 / Wave 3 got a minor update on May 12, 2010, but the company&... |
13 May 2010
06:45 GMT |
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Microsoft is making no secret of the fact that the latest release of Windows Live will be tailored to Windows 7 and Windows Vista, while not supporting Windows XP at all. The Redmond company’s position is of course that the operating system released back in 2001 is obsolete, despite the Service Pack 2 and Servi... |
11 May 2010
11:24 GMT |
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While Microsoft will still not officially make public the development and release schedule for Windows Live Wave 4, the company’s very own leaks point to June 2010 for the next major milestone for the successor of Wave 3. Approximately a week ago, I was telling you that Microsoft France revealed Windows Live Me... |
10 May 2010
12:36 GMT |
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In less than two months, Microsoft will make available for download the first public development milestone of the next major iteration of Windows Live Messenger. Although the Redmond company has yet to announce the official availability deadline, fact is that it managed to leak the release date. According to Microsof... |
4 May 2010
03:28 GMT |
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Microsoft has warned customers of its free email service of a new wave of hijacks that is targeting Windows Live Hotmail accounts. According to the Redmond company, attackers use hacked Hotmail accounts in order to send spam to all the people in the victims’ contact list. Rob Margel, working in Windows Services... |
12 March 2010
12:21 GMT |
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In mid-December 2008, when it initially introduced the Windows Live Solution Center, Microsoft promised that it would diversify the support offerings available via the website in the future. Over two years later, the Redmond company is no longer limiting the support destination to Windows Live Hotmail problems exclus... |
10 March 2010
07:31 GMT |
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Microsoft initially confirmed that Windows Live users were experiencing difficulty while accessing their accounts, on February 16th. The company subsequently acknowledged that an outage was affecting all online properties reunited under the Windows Live brand umbrella. Essentially, customers could no longer sign in i... |
17 February 2010
06:40 GMT |
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There are no official accounts of my.live.com’s success in attracting an audience, or the measure of its failure in doing so, but one thing is certain, Microsoft has signed its death sentence. In less than two months, the Redmond company will shut down my.live.com for good. The software giant has already procee... |
27 January 2010
05:57 GMT |
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Users of a handset running under Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system can now enjoy two updated applications on their handsets, namely the Windows Live for Windows phones and the Facebook client. However, there seems to be a catch with each of them, as the latter is only available for devices running und... |
25 January 2010
02:42 GMT |
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Microsoft is currently offering ever-growing storage via Windows Live Hotmail, and there are some users that have been little hesitant about taking advantage of the company’s offering. Case in point: Ryan from Dallas, TX, who’s Windows Live Hotmail uses no less than 23GB of e-mail storage, of course free ... |
12 January 2010
10:27 GMT |
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Microsoft has made available for download a new release of the Windows Live client-side components designed for users of mobile phones running its Windows Mobile operating system. Windows Live for Windows phone (Pro) is currently up for grabs via the Microsoft Download Center at no charge. Users that will decide to ... |
11 January 2010
09:09 GMT |
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No less than 4 billion emails are handled by Windows Live Hotmail every day, revealed Arthur de Haan, director, Windows Live Test and System Engineering. Out of the total number of messages that make through the Redmond company’s email service, only 3 billion are genuine. In this regard, Microsoft also filters ... |
23 December 2009
06:54 GMT |
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Microsoft continues to keep mum on the next iteration Windows Live, but silence should be in no way mistaken for inactivity. The most recent Windows Live Wave 4 leaks come to confirm the fact that the Redmond company is hard at work building the successors of the current versions of Windows Live clients and services,... |
22 December 2009
03:06 GMT |
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Following in the footsteps of the Windows 7 project, Microsoft has introduced a new blog for the company’s efforts around Windows Live. And just as the blog for Windows Vista’s successor introduced by Steven Sinofsky, president, Windows and Windows Live Division, Inside Windows Live will also be focused o... |
16 December 2009
09:30 GMT |
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Microsoft has added a total of 19 feed partners to Windows Live, the most prominent of which being Google’s YouTube. As of November 11, 2009, Windows Live users will be able to enjoy an additional 19 online hotspots to the list of existing Microsoft web activity partnerships. The Redmond company has made sure ... |
12 November 2009
09:26 GMT |
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Microsoft has taken the necessary steps to protect end users running Windows Live Toolbars from losing their favorites. Switching off the Favorites synchronization capabilities of Windows Live Toolbars is only a temporary measure, the Redmond company noted, indicating that the full functionality of its toolbar would ... |
6 November 2009
05:57 GMT |
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Windows Mobile 7, the next iteration of Microsoft's mobile operating system, which should emerge into the wild sometime in late 2010, is expected to include a great deal of enhancements over the previous flavors of the platform. Microsoft has already been reported to plan adding to it features like Zune services... |
4 November 2009
11:24 GMT |
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MACH and Microsoft have announced recently that they have extended their partnership aimed at market availability of Microsoft's Windows Live mobile messaging services. According to the agreement between the two companies, MACH will deliver Windows Live SMS services in a series of new markets, along with the mar... |
16 October 2009
09:44 GMT |
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Concomitantly with the introduction of its latest iteration of the Windows Mobile operating system, along with the new Windows Phone branded devices, Microsoft has also made sure to kick up a notch the applications and services designed to run on top of the platform. In addition to the apps that ship with Windows Mob... |
7 October 2009
09:34 GMT |
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Even as early as August 2009, Microsoft started delivering hints of the next iteration of Windows Live applications and services. At that time, the company motivated that it was introducing a Live Services update and killing Live Framework Community Technology Preview (Services, SDK & Tools) in the process as a part ... |
5 October 2009
08:50 GMT |
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Microsoft continues to consolidate Windows Live as a nucleus designed to streamline user activity sharing actions across otherwise disparate web services. The company has hesitated little to embrace a growing list of web partners, inking a multitude of partnerships, and placing Windows Live at the center of an expand... |
15 September 2009
10:35 GMT |
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Microsoft has presented an update to Windows Live Photo in order to “make room” for panoramas but also to introduce additional touchups to the service. The refresh was delivered on September 10th, 2009, and is currently available to users of Windows Live Photos. The Redmond-based company noted that it was... |
11 September 2009
09:08 GMT |
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Windows Live users have the option to connect their accounts with their Facebook profile, in a simple move, and by making just a few easy steps, for which Microsoft offers guidance. The Redmond-based company turned to an open standard for the bridge between Windows Live and Facebook, and indicates that currently, the... |
7 September 2009
06:15 GMT |
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Microsoft is confirming officially what some users of Windows Live Hotmail Wave 3 have already undoubtedly noticed. The service no longer offers them the option to insert an image into the body of a message. The Redmond company explains that it has disabled the feature due to security concerns. According to the softw... |
21 August 2009
09:36 GMT |
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As a part of the August 19th, 2009 updates released for the components of the Windows Live Essentials suite of clients, Microsoft also introduced a major refresh of Windows Live Family Safety. Users have already been able to download and install releases such as Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (2009) 14.0.8089.726 and the... |
21 August 2009
08:47 GMT |
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An update for Microsoft’s blogging client is now available for download, with the company making little effort to bring the refresh to the public, so far. Users leveraging Windows Live Writer in order to blog on Windows Live, Wordpress or any other similar service, now have an upgrade available designed to take... |
19 August 2009
12:03 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering an update for the application that was designed to be the replacement of the default photo viewing client in Windows Vista. As an integral part of a suite of refreshes, the Redmond company has kicked Windows Live Photo Gallery 2009 up a notch. Users can now download Windows Live Photo Gallery 20... |
19 August 2009
09:42 GMT |
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Microsoft is pushing the Wave 3 release of Windows Live components to the next level with the introduction of updates affecting the entire gamma of applications designed to bridge Windows and the Cloud. The email client that is since the start of 2009 an integral part of the Windows Live Essentials package will be bu... |
19 August 2009
07:57 GMT |
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Microsoft's online storage and sharing service for digital images under the Windows Live brand has reached the 1 billion uploaded pictures mark. The past week, the Redmond company announced that, in just seven months since the introduction of Windows Live Photos, the service contributed a great deal to the total... |
10 August 2009
05:40 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up to kick start the migration of content from MSN Calendar to Windows live Calendar. On June 17th, 2009, a member of the Windows Live Calendar team indicated that “it's almost moving time.” According to the Redmond company, Windows Live Calendar has been tweaked in order to embr... |
19 June 2009
04:53 GMT |
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There is now a new way of accessing information on Windows Live accounts via SMS. Microsoft has introduced SMS for Windows Live in the US after the service debuted in the UK. What SMS for Windows Live does is allow mobile phone users to leverage text messages in order to view and update the information associated wit... |
15 June 2009
06:10 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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Microsoft has completed the worldwide rollout of the latest update of its Windows Live suite of services and applications. Announced just last week, the refresh is designed to stretch Windows Live across the social networking universe, and to position Microsoft's services as a hub designed to centralize users&rs... |
29 April 2009
03:00 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up to introduce a new update to Windows Live. Brian Hall, general manager of the Windows Live Business Group, indicated that the refresh was just around the corner, while at the same time, making sure to point out that the evolution of the collection of services and applications under the Windows... |
22 April 2009
10:00 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed officially that Windows Live Hotmail suffered a temporary outage, but indicated that the issue was resolved. And indeed at this point in time, the service is up and running with no problems whatsoever. Various users have started reporting not being able to sign in to their accounts, and the fa... |
10 April 2009
05:29 GMT |
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At the start of this month, Windows Live ID has been added among the identity providers of RPX. In this context, Windows Live ID joins the ranks of identity providers such as Facebook, Google, MySpace, Yahoo and OpenID. By Microsoft's own estimates, there are approximately 500 million Windows Live users. Via RPX... |
6 April 2009
09:47 GMT |
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Microsoft's Windows Mobile users have now a new reason to rejoice. After learning about some of the goodies that the Redmond company intends to bring with its future releases of the operating system, including support for its Marketplace and online services for mobile users with the upcoming WinMo 6.5, we also h... |
31 March 2009
03:04 GMT |
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Microsoft has warned users against fake emails claiming to be from the Windows Live team asking them for their account data. The Redmond company has described a scenario in which the fraudulent email messages masquerading as being sent from Windows Live request sensitive information such as username, password, date o... |
17 March 2009
10:52 GMT |
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End-users now have the chance to impact the Windows Live suite of application and services. They will be able to do so via feedback, and the Redmond company has debuted a new e-mail address designed to centralize customer input. Livewish at microsoft.com is conceived to nothing short of break down the barriers associ... |
4 March 2009
11:01 GMT |
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Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer introduced the My Phone service at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February 2009. The new offering, debuted into Beta stage just a couple of weeks ago, is designed to ensure that users of mobile phones will be able to synchronize data between their devices and the... |
3 March 2009
10:28 GMT |
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Microsoft's reportedly $300 million Windows campaign is moving forward steadfast. The latest ingredient in the video advertisements recipe focused on the Windows Live component of Windows is the cute factor, a tactic for which the Redmond company has turned to children, where "cute" is indeed in abundance. The l... |
2 March 2009
05:51 GMT |
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Microsoft is getting ready to pull the plug on MSN Calendar for good. The Redmond company is attempting to solve yet another case of overlapping services between MSN and Windows Live. In this case, the software giant intimated that the death of MSN Calendar would manage to breathe new life into Windows Live Calendar.... |
26 February 2009
06:48 GMT |
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At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft applauded what it referred to as strong momentum for its family of Windows Live Mobile services. The Redmond company announced a variety of new partnerships and agreements at the event, all focused on Windows Live, with such companies as América Móvil... |
18 February 2009
09:50 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 pushing mobile phones into the Cloud via Windows Live. The Mobile World Congress 2009 proved to be the fertile soil for the Redmond company to ink a variety of agreements with members of the telecommunications industry, designed to connect mobile phones with the Windows Live suite of applications and ser... |
16 February 2009
12:10 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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