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Windows Live and You: “Listen to and talk with customers all over the world” (Marcus Schmidt, Microsoft)
10/8/2009 5:34:47 AM, mynetx
Summer is over—but my interview series “Windows Live and You” is not. Today I talked with Marcus Schmidt, who is working for Microsoft and keeping in touch with people like you, to find out what users truly think about Windows and Windows Live. Marcus ...
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Lay it on me
9/28/2009 12:41:04 PM, Greg
Windows Live Mail is a great entry-level desktop mail client, and I’m certainly not knocking it. But many of you have discovered the goodness that is the Outlook Connector, and you use Outlook 2007’s vastly superior tools to manage your Windows Live ...
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Fix Live Calendar & Windows Live Mail Calendar Sync
9/21/2009 4:13:17 AM, Manan
I’ve had this issue various times, the problem is that every time you add an event in Windows Live Mail, it simply disappears. No error, no notification. The event is not added. The issue is a bug which for some reason has skipped rectification. However, ...
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Fix Live Calendar & Windows Live Mail Calendar Sync
9/21/2009 4:13:17 AM, Manan
I’ve had this issue various times, the problem is that every time you add an event in Windows Live Mail, it simply disappears. No error, no notification. The event is not added. The issue is a bug which for some reason has skipped rectification. However, ...
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Subscribing to Online Calendar
9/16/2009 7:10:47 PM, Khai Liang
Why subscribe instead of import calendars? Well, there are a few differences between subscribing and importing: If you subscribe to an online calendar, whenever the third-party calendar is updated, your calendar is updated as well. This is great for ...
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Where’s the party?
9/11/2009 7:42:18 PM, Greg
The other day when one of my explanations was running a little long, a colleague asked for the “Twitter” version. In other words, “give me the high level overview in 140 characters or less.” I thought that was pretty clever, so I decided it might be a ...
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Yahoo is socializing—or just copying Windows Live?
9/1/2009 3:00:00 AM, mynetx
Yahoo! has updated Messenger and Mail with numerous new features. Send e-mails with attachments up to 25 MB (instead of 10 MB). Web mail: combined Calendar and Notes feature. Add attachments via drag and drop from your desktop. Images in mails are shown ...
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My browser is a bad guy :(
8/26/2009 3:00:24 AM, mynetx
“Windows Live is designed for you, but maybe not for your browser.” This was what I saw on my screen when I opened Windows Live Calendar with Google Chrome. The alert advises me to use either Internet Explorer 6 or higher, Safari 3 or higher, or Firefox ...
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Windows Live and You: “Making my views known on behalf of the ‘little everyday user’” (Technogran)
8/21/2009 8:00:58 AM, mynetx
Talking about Windows Live always means talking about its users—the tech-savvy ones as well as the “normal” users. Today I am talking with Technogran, a ‘geeky grandma trying desperately to keep up with it all’, as she describes herself. She lives in ...
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Sync Windows Live Calendar with Windows Mobile, iPhone, etc…
8/13/2009 7:52:43 AM, Andreas J.
Lot’s of people have been asking Microsoft to add a calendar syncing feature for Windows Live Calendar. Since Microsoft has not yet added this feature, I’m going to post a work around that will allow you to sync Windows Live Calendar with ...
