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Microsoft postpones Hotmail-Outlook Express cut-off: Following user outcry over the company's plan to ax access to Windows Live Hotmail from inside Outlook Express e-mail accounts, Microsoft has postponed its planned June 30 cut-off date. As LiveSide.Net notes, Microsoft hasn't provided a new date by which it plans to disable the Outlook Express...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Windows, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Enterprise Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Microsoft internal memo details Windows 7-Windows Live ties: Microsoft internal memo details Windows 7-Windows Live tiesI take it ....“We have an opportunity to make it much easier for customers to ‘get started’ with Windows Live. Our goal should be to have customers log in, type their Live ID, and then they are automatically ’set up’ with Live. For...; Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, details Windows 7-Windows Live ty, details Windows 7-Windows Live, internal memo, Microsoft Windows Live; Discussion threads 2008-04-28
Microsoft internal memo details Windows 7-Windows Live ties: In January, I mentioned an internal Microsoft memo I had seen which provided details of how Microsoft plans to more tightly integrate its Windows 7 operating system with Windows Live services. Today, I'm providing the text of that memo in full, as part of the launch of my book Microsoft...; Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-04-28
AirExport (exe): AirExport allows you to produce Airtight Interactive's AutoViewer, PostcardViewer, SimpleViewer, or TiltViewer Flash galleries from Windows Live Photo Gallery. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Chris Wood, AirExport, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software; Software downloads 2008-04-08
Microsoft in "spam" partnership with five social networks: I'm not sure whether to call this data portability or just making it easier for social networking services to spam a user's contacts. But either way, Microsoft have announced partnerships with LinkedIn, Tagged, Hi5, Bebo and Facebook, to enable Windows Live Messenger users to looks for contacts on either of...; Tags: Partnership, Network, Microsoft Windows Live, Spam, Microsoft Corp., Data Portability, Social Networking, Microsoft Windows, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-03-25

Microsoft signs contact-sharing deals with five social-networking sites: Microsoft has signed five separate agreements with five social-networking leaders via which each will allow its users to share contact data with Microsoft in a more secure way. In a blog post on March 25 to the Microsoft Windows Live Developer site, John Richards, Director of the...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-03-25
C2: Microsoft's take on FriendFeed?: Microsoft isn't usually the first (or second or third) company that folks associate with social networking. But maybe the Redmondians, or at least the researchers on the Microsoft Research C2 team, aren't as unsociable as some assume. Microsoft showed off earlier this month at its TechFest research...; Tags: Team, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., C2, C2 Data, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-03-24
Windows Live Platform Services: A guide for the perplexed: Windows Live Platform Services: A guide for the perplexedMissing pieces1) Actual delivery of promises.2) Competitive access via standards to enable innovation.3) No Wall St. ties to enable a software future based on merit and demand, not greed and control.Three things missingFirstly, Standards - i.e. standards agreed by the whole IT...; Tags: Quality, Programming languages, Microsoft Windows, standards, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Live; Discussion threads 2008-03-06
Windows Live Platform Services: A guide for the perplexed: Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie outlined during his Mix '08 keynote this week a very high-level vision about how Microsoft is moving to be more of a utility-computing/cloud-computing vendor. Ozzie didn't talk specifics about any of the plumbing that makes it possible. But David Treadwell, Corporate...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Service, Horizon, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Data Centers, Storage, Software, Hardware, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-03-06
Is Microsoft still having Windows Live outage problems or not?: Is Microsoft still having Windows Live outage problems or not?FRUSTRATEDI have been trying to login to my hotmail account since Tuesday morning... it is now FRIDAY and still no luck! I am getting even more frustrated everytime i read these news articles and press releases from microsoft saying everything is...; Tags: E-mail providers, E-mail, Manufacturing, Windows Live outage problem, outage problem, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., MSN Hotmail, Microsoft Windows, outage; Discussion threads 2008-02-29
Is Microsoft still having Windows Live outage problems or not?: After a full day of downtime for many Windows Live users on February 26 -- an outage the reasons for which Microsoft has declined to explain, but claimed was resolved on February 26 -- some users still seem to have been having ongoing service-access problems. According to...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Outage, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Manufacturing, Microsoft Office, Software, Office Suites, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-02-28
Microsoft starts rolling out new Windows Live platform dev tools, services: Microsoft starts rolling out new Windows Live platform dev tools, servicesInterestingThis sounds really interesting. Looking forward for the public API's.If I want......rich client on the web, I'll go Flex/Flash. If it'san HTML-based web app, I'll go Java/JSP. Thanks, but no thanks, to your non-standard, M$-locked-in "Live" crapware!non-standard?@techboy_z -...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Scripting languages, Programming languages, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Corp., Flex/Flash, Microsoft Windows Live, tool, new Windows Live platform, JSP, Windows Live Platform, Java, Microsoft Windows; Discussion threads 2008-02-28
Microsoft starts rolling out new Windows Live platform dev tools, services: One of Microsoft's mystery men behind the cloud, David Treadwell, has gone public with a number of updates coming to Microsoft's evolving Windows Live development platform. (Treadwell, Corporate Vice President of Windows Live Platform Services, is one of the folks in charge of the four Live platform...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-02-28
Microsoft: Windows Live outage affected those not signed with Live ID: Microsoft: Windows Live outage affected those not signed with Live IDI directed my mom to mail.live.com.I solved her problem very quickly.RE: Microsoft: Windows Live outage affected those not signed with Live IDI got this message all day long at the MS Office Download Center:"The Office Update Catalog cannot be displayed...; Tags: Manufacturing, Windows Live outage, Live-ID, outage, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows; Discussion threads 2008-02-26
Microsoft: Windows Live outage affected those not signed with Live ID: A widespread, international outage on February 26 affecting users of a number of Microsoft's Windows Live services affected those not already logged into Microsoft's Web services via Live ID, according to Microsoft. But exactly why so many of its services were inaccessible for most of Tuesday is still not something...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Outage, Microsoft Windows, Manufacturing, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-02-26
Outage hits Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger users: Outage hits Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger usersRE: Outage hits Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger usersI am unable to use both messenger and the web interface for hotmail, but I can access Hotmail just fine through the Outlook Connector.Yup. Some can get on, ohters can't.My users have been complaining all morning. UGH!TechNet...; Tags: Manufacturing, Messenger, Windows Live Hotmail, outage, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows; Discussion threads 2008-02-26
Outage hits Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger users: Windows Live users are reporting on February 26 that they are unable to access Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger, two of Microsoft's key consumer Internet services. Microsoft's MSN.com portal also is extremely slow to load. A number of users on Microsoft's Channel...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Outage, Windows Live User, Microsoft Windows, Manufacturing, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-02-26
Microsoft SkyDrive no longer just a beta: Microsoft launched the final gold version of its Windows Live SkyDrive consumer storage service on February 21. Windows Live SkyDrive -- which has been known by a variety of names, including LiveDrive and Windows Live Folders (but not FolderShare, which is something else entirely) -- is a...; Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-02-21
Microsoft keeps the Live fires burning: Microsoft isn't sitting around waiting for its Yahoo acquisition to get the nod. It is continuing to roll out new Windows Live and Live Search technologies and programs. Here are just a few of the Live-related announcements from the past few days that caught my eye: ...; Tags: Data Center, Mobile, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-02-18
Microsoft Windows Live Mail's CAPTCHA defense falls to spam bots: Microsoft Windows Live Mail's CAPTCHA defense falls to spam botsI'll second that...They, or someone, has also figured how to do the same with Yahoo accounts. One of my email accounts, not Hotmail or Yahoo, gets 5 - 10 spams a day from Hotmail, Yahoo US, Yahoo UK, Yahoo Taiwan,...; Tags: Operating systems, CAPTCHA, CAPTCHA defense, Microsoft Windows Live Mail, spam bot, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Live, WLM, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows; Discussion threads 2008-02-07