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Skype Chat—An Exemplar For Live Messenger
12/14/2009 12:04:36 PM, mynetx
Regarding usability, Windows Live Messenger can learn from Skype chat. In the past weeks, I have used Skype chat intensively. There are several features that I miss in Messenger since I started using Skype chat as well. Let’s take a ...
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The Proper Care and Feeding of Windows Live Categories
4/30/2009 9:39:10 PM, Jeffrey
A question I’m hearing a lot lately is “what’s a category, and what’s it good for?” I’ll try to briefly answer both those questions, and give you an idea of what you can do with this feature. First, categories are created and managed in a several places. ...
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Grouping Contacts in Windows Live
2/6/2009 9:38:50 AM, Marcus at Microsoft
Many of us find we have lots of people in our Windows Live contact list, but we really spend our time “talking” to just a handful. Sometimes it gets a little daunting to sort through all those contacts. Fortunately, there are a couple ways to help ...