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Windows 7: media access from anywhere

A new feature in Windows 7; accessing your music and media from anywhere in the cloud by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Media, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Windows 7, Microsoft, Zack Whittaker, Windows Live ID, Stream, Windows Media Player, Entertainment, iGeneration

Image galleries 2009-03-08

Piecing together Microsoft's cloud-computing vision

A new white paper, sponsored by Microsoft and written by the always entertaining consultant David Chappell, provides more clues about what the Softies are planning to unveil at this October's Professional Developers Conference. For anyone looking to understand how and where Red Dog, Zurich, BizTalk Services and SQL Server Data...

Tags: Zurich, Operating System, Vision, Microsoft Corp., Service, David Chappell, Red Dog, SQL Server Data Services, Application Service, EC2, EC2 Customer, Windows Live ID, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Desktop Virtualization, Software As A Service (SaaS), Software, Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Office Live Workspace narrows Google App gap while playing to MS-Office's strengths

With Web 2.0 being the rage that it is, Web-based productivity software from the likes of Google, Zoho, and WebEx appears to be getting all the buzz while Microsoft which has so far eschewed the idea of a Web-based offering. But if Microsoft's Office Live Workspace, the beta program of...

Tags: Microsoft Office Live Workspace, Google Inc., Google Apps, Document, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Corp., Workspace, Windows Live ID, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-12-10

Five new Microsoft downloads available this week

A quick round-up of some of the new test releases and final versions of various Microsoft wares rolled out in the past week:Windows Live ID software development kit. Windows Live ID is Microsoft's single sign-on authentication technology of which Microsoft Passport is a subset. On August 16, Microsoft released version...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-08-17

Xbox Live hacked, accounts stolen

Online gaming forums are buzzing with reports that Xbox Live accounts linked to Microsofts Windows Live ID service are being hijacked by malicious hackers. Kevin Finisterre, a security researcher at Digital Munition, raised the issue on the Full Disclosure mailing list over the weekend, calling attention to rumors that...

Tags: Game players, Games, Windows Live ID, Xbox Live, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Windows, Kevin Finisterre, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2007-03-20

Identity for the Internet, Windows and Skype - oh my!

Three loosely coupled bits of news floated around yesterday; interesting enough to spark my interest in taking a look at each of them:1. OSIS link Internet identity systems: "OSIS" stands for "Open source identity selector" and is a truly significant development as Phil Windley pointed out. Its server-side work is...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Windows Live ID, identity, Microsoft Windows CardSpace

Blog posts 2006-06-22

Windows Live ID crucial to Microsoft's future

Windows Live ID crucial to Microsoft's futurePassport by another name?Ok, why is this good but Passport bad?Anybody interested in what the customer wants?I am increasingly amazed at these 'products' emerging that I have no intention of using nor have an interest in. Do any of these companies care to listen...

Tags: Operating systems, Web browsers, kind-of, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Live, Internet, Windows Live ID, Microsoft Windows, operating system

Discussion threads 2006-06-21

Windows Live ID crucial to Microsoft's future

CNET's Martin LaMonica wrote an article yesterday about how Microsoft's Live online services "don't end at Windows Live ID will be a central part of Microsoft's strategic shift towards Live Services and integrated desktop/Web apps the Web browser", but "extend deep into Windows". This is based on the recent release...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Windows Live ID, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows

Blog posts 2006-06-20

New: Windows Live Account and ID

A new product from the busy Windows Live team is Windows Live Account at account.live.com. The Hive describes it as: "...a new control panel for your Windows Live ID AKA Passport account. Change your settings and get help for your Windows Live ID Account. ...

Tags: Windows Live ID, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows

Blog posts 2006-05-18

Identity Management as a Service

Identity Management as a ServiceWindows LiveIDWe commented on an post from Phil earlier in the year on this very subject http://www.mwdadvisors.com/blog/2005/10/loosely-coupled-reinvents-passport.htmlYour references to Passport are interesting in light of this white paper from Microsoft discussion Passport 2.0 aka Windows LiveID: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnlive/html/winliveidserv.aspwhich includes the following:Microsoft has published its vision of a...

Tags: identity management, relying party, identity, identity provider, Windows Live ID, Windows Live ID service, metasystem, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-04-19

Additional Resources

Iconix eMail ID 3.87.3.9 (Windows)

Iconix eMail ID lets you see what's real before you even open the message. Iconix eMail ID works with your current email service such as AOL mail, AIM mail, Yahoo mail, Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail, Earthlink, Outlook Express all on IE or FireFox. Iconix eMail ID double checks the source...

Tags: ICONIX, E-mail, Microsoft Outlook, E-mail Providers, Microsoft Windows, Online Communications, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Internet, Operating Systems

Software downloads 2009-10-24

Verizon Wireless Razzle

Though we sometimes question the outcome, we do like it when cell phone manufacturers take a different approach to designing a phone so it stands out from the rest. The Verizon Wireless Razzle is certainly one such phone, straddling the line between a messaging phone and a music phone with...

Tags: Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Verizon Wireless, Razzle, phone, Qwerty-keyboard, keyboard

Product reviews 2009-10-22

Samsung Moment (Sprint)

In case you haven't noticed, the Google Android dam has broken. For almost a year HTC was the only manufacturer to offer handsets with the operating system, but in the past month, Motorola and Samsung almost fell over each other to offer Android smartphones of their own. Moto gave us...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, slider mechanism, Sprint Communications, Samsung Moment, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Product reviews 2009-10-22

Time to ditch Windows for online banking and shopping

Instead of a live CDWould I be able to install Linux in Windows and do the same?Amen! Happened today to a gov't computerhttp://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2009/10/computer_hacker_steals_479000.htmlYet another infected computer stealing OUR money.Absolutely ridiculous and irresponsible article!Show me an instance where a flaw in Vista/7 has led to a user being compromised? ...

Tags: Operating systems, Cyberthreats, Web browsers, Viruses and worms, Spyware, adware & malware, Microsoft Windows, exploit, phishing, Linux, operating system, Adrian, online banking

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Two bars at home; three at work. Wireless coverage data is going granular

Say goodbye to those no-help coverage maps that the wireless carriers use to show you how great their coverage is from one coast to the other. So hello to granular maps, those that measure the true signal as well as the actual data coverage down to the Google Maps street...

Tags: Phone, Coverage, Cell Phone, Carrier, Wireless, Wireless Coverage Data, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-06

Hotmail hacked: Thousands of account details published online

Facts...have never stopped Zack from sensationalizing a story into an anti-Microsoft rant before....wrong headlinewhile I punch M$ every time it deserves it, phising points to user stupidity not to some sort of hacking or intrusion.That could potentially happen to ANY online email provider...just replace the phising screen.Hacked?If people gave up...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail providers, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, phishing, MSN Hotmail, login screen, THOUSANDS

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Quake Live plug-in (IE) 1.0.263 (Windows)

This plug-in from id Software allows players to participate in the online first-person shooter game Quake Live using their Internet Explorer browser, versions 7 and up. Users must also register for a free account at the Quake Live Web site in order to initiate gameplay.

Tags: Software, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Plug-in, Web Browsers, Tools & Techniques, Internet, Management

Software downloads 2009-09-22

Quake Live plug-in (Firefox) 1.0.263 (Windows)

This plug-in from id Software allows players to participate in the online first-person shooter game Quake Live using their Mozilla Firefox browser, versions 2.0 and up. Users must also register for a free account at the Quake Live Web site in order to initiate gameplay.

Tags: Software, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows, Plug-in, Web Browsers, Tools & Techniques, Internet, Management

Software downloads 2009-09-22

Samsung Rogue SCH-U960 (Verizon Wireless)

Photo gallery:Samsung RogueSamsung has had mixed results with touch-screen phones with full keyboards. Verizon's Samsung Glyde had its share of faults, but we liked the Samsung Impression for AT&T quite a bit. Fortunately, the new Samsung Rogue for Verizon Wireless is no slouch. Not only is it a touch-screen and...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Engineering, phone dialer, touch-screen interface, Verizon Wireless, Samsung Rogue, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Product reviews 2009-09-11

More Microsoft PDC 2009 sessions revealed

Pointof clarificationI think you post on the changes to the Live Framework was somewhat off-base. It seems true that Microsoft is not directly linking Windows Live Services to Windows Azure but they're absolutely going to encourage developers to use Windows Live Servies in combination with Windows Azure.For example, when it...

Tags: Operating systems, Windows Azure, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Live

Discussion threads 2009-09-03