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- I say crapware; you say 'performance enhancer'
- Do you consider Microsoft products like Windows Defender antispyware tool and Windows Live OneCare security/management service to be crapware that you don't want preloaded on your PC, or performance-enhancement tools? by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: performance, pc, microsoft windows live, microsoft corp., microsoft windows live onecare, microsoft windows, operating systems, desktops, software, hardware, mary jo foley
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Microsoft splits its Platforms & Services unit in two
- Microsoft announced on July 23 that it is cleaving its Platforms & Services Division in half and the head of the formerly combined unit is leaving the company. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: microsoft windows live, microsoft corp., microsoft windows, operating systems, software, mary jo foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Microsoft hints about new profile-centric Win Live wares
- The blogosphere was atwitter pun intended over the past day or two about Facebook's recent revamp designed to make user pages more profile-centric. But Facebook isn't the only one going this route. It sounds like Microsoft is going more profile-centric in a couple of different ways with its upcoming Windows...
- Tags: microsoft windows live, microsoft corp., mobile portal, microsoft windows, operating systems, software, mary jo foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Microsoft opens up Live Mesh to more testers
- If you were closed out of Microsoft's Live Mesh preview for lack of an invite, you now can get in. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: microsoft windows live, microsoft corp., tester, liveside, live mesh team, microsoft windows, operating systems, software, mary jo foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Windows Live Mail Attachment Extractor (exe)
- Windows Live Mail Attachment Extractor can save and extract all the attachments from your Windows Live Mail and deposit them in a specified folder. It can automatically create sub directories according to mail sender's name or mail folder's name. It all adds up to a great utility for Windows Live...
- Tags: microsoft windows live mail, microsoft windows live, ope2000, microsoft windows, operating systems, software
- Software downloads 2008-07-15
- Microsoft says it's time to stop worrying about Vista - Does that make you feel any less worried?
- Microsoft says it's time to stop worrying about Vista - Does that make you feel any less worried?There are still issues...Network performance still needs work.File copy performance still needs work.The ghost town that is Ultimate Extra's needs to start giving us what we were promised and paid $100 extra for.I...
- Tags: operating systems, microsoft windows live, microsoft windows, microsoft corp., operating system, microsoft windows vista
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- Microsoft Equipt: student productivity rise likely?
- Probably not. But it's not a bad thing Microsoft have done, and it really shows that they're committed to this "student malarkey" we have going. Today, they announced that project "Albany", now called Microsoft Equipt, has been released into the wild, for the masses who want an all-round suite of...
- Tags: microsoft windows live, microsoft corp., onecare, microsoft windows, microsoft office, operating systems, software, office suites, zack whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Windows Live FolderShare: unacceptable 3-day outage
- Windows Live FolderShare: unacceptable 3-day outageWhine. Whine. Whine.FolderShare is a free service. It hasn't cost you a dime. Unacceptable outage or not, you can whine to us or move on to another provider that will invariably pull the same stunt.Anyone who lives in their parents house free of...
- Tags: manufacturing, microsoft windows, outage, unacceptable 3-day outage, windows live foldershare, microsoft windows live, foldershare
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- Windows Live FolderShare: unacceptable 3-day outage
- Microsoft's FolderShare is a great service for synchronizing files across computers. As with any backup service, reliability is a critical user requirement for FolderShare. For this reason, I was rather shocked to learn of an planned three-day service outage starting tomorrow evening. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: microsoft windows live, microsoft windows, microsoft corp., outage, service, foldershare, manufacturing, michael krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Microsoft continues paring back the Windows Live family
- Microsoft continues paring back the Windows Live familyIll-informed as usualWide-of-the-mark comment as usual from you Mary-Jo.The tools that you mentioned are not the core set of live services that you think they are. Those are the software bits of the Windows Live software+services model.The services that they are complement are...
- Tags: operating systems, microsoft windows live, microsoft windows, microsoft corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Microsoft continues paring back the Windows Live family
- Microsoft is slowly but surely whittling back the unwieldy family of Windows Live services that the company fielded over the past couple of years. The latest candidate set to get the ax is Windows Live Expo, Microsoft's attempt to take on Craig's List in the classified ads...
- Tags: microsoft windows live, microsoft corp., service, microsoft windows, operating systems, software, mary jo foley
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Microsoft's grand plan to eliminate phone numbers
- I've been puzzling over transcripts of a couple of recent speeches by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates where he discussed his vision for the end of phone numbers. But it wasn't until today, when I learned more about Microsoft's "Echoes" services platform for telcos that I began piecing together how Gates...
- Tags: phone, mobile, microsoft windows live, microsoft corp., phone number, advertising & promotion, telecom & utilities, microsoft windows, marketing, operating systems, software, mary jo foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Microsoft making inroads against Google Apps for Education
- Although Microsoft's Live@Edu collaboration tools are only in use at about a third of the universities claimed by Google Apps for Education (2000 vs. 6000), Microsoft is rolling out new features to make it's Exchange- and Office-based products more competitive. According to eWeek, ...
- Tags: education, google inc., google apps, microsoft windows live, microsoft corp., microsoft windows, e-mail, microsoft office, e-mail providers, operating systems, software, online communications, office suites, internet, christopher dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Microsoft looks to 'Echoes' to grow its Windows Live mobile, TV services share
- Microsoft looks to 'Echoes' to grow its Windows Live mobile, TV services shareMe experienceAs usual MS branding is confusing with Live Mobile services. There is “Live Search” and then there is “Windows Live”. I have both and they are decent. Live search gives me restaurant and other listing near my...
- Tags: advertising & promotion, internet, tv, microsoft windows live, microsoft corp., microsoft windows, mobile
- Discussion threads 2008-05-29
- Microsoft looks to 'Echoes' to grow its Windows Live mobile, TV services share
- Microsoft is readying a new platform, code-named "Echoes," that it is hoping will get more telco carriers to offer their subscribers Windows Live and other forthcoming Microsoft services. Microsoft's near-term goal with Echoes is to make the scaling and expediting of its Windows Live mobile service deployments...
- Tags: mobile, microsoft windows live, microsoft corp., tv, microsoft windows, advertising & promotion, operating systems, software, marketing, mary jo foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Blackberry users to get Windows Live services
- Blackberry users to get Windows Live servicesRim and MicrosoftThis is good news for BlackBerry users.that is really going to p*ss offcorporate support teams when they've been doing their best to lock out Hotmail from corporate desktops and PDAs etc. They are going to get inundated with calls from users requesting...
- Tags: e-mail providers, handhelds, microsoft windows, live-mail, msn hotmail, rim blackberry, blackberry users, microsoft outlook, e-mail, microsoft windows vista, windows live services, microsoft windows live
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- Blackberry users to get Windows Live services
- Research in Motion RIM and Microsoft have struck a deal via which Blackberry users will be able to run Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger on their devices. The two companies announced the deal on May 12; actual availability is slated for some time this summer...
- Tags: research in motion ltd., microsoft windows live, rim blackberry, microsoft corp., microsoft windows, handhelds, operating systems, software, hardware, mary jo foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- 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
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