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Put your best face forward
2/3/2010 11:06:00 PM, Greg
Perhaps the most exciting and forward thinking features of Windows Live are the underused and poorly understood web activities. These allow you to publish updates from other services, such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, to Windows Live. The net effect ...
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Use Windows Live on any mobile phone via SMS
1/8/2010 5:31:54 AM, Hariprasad
I quite like to have SMS. If you’re like me, or even if you only use SMS occasionally, then the new SMS for Windows Live service may become your favorite feature. No mobile browser or data plan needed – if you can send and receive text messages on your ...
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The 2009 Summary (II): What Happened?
12/22/2009 10:28:24 AM, mynetx
From the release of Windows Live Essentials 2009 (Wave 3) to POP3 for every Hotmail user, from Internet Explorer 8 to Windows 7 Release Candidate: there have been many happenings around Microsoft in the first half of 2009. A retrospective of events, ...
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Windows Live adds 19 Web Activities, including YouTube
11/12/2009 7:09:16 AM, mynetx
Do you love creating videos and sharing them with your friends? This has just got easier. Starting from today, you can add YouTube to your Windows Live Profile as Web Activity. The Windows Live team announced: Windows Live is rolling out 19 new web ...
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Does Windows Live know about your company?
10/17/2009 11:43:41 PM, Jamie
I found something out about Windows Live today that I never knew and I’m wondering if anyone else knew about it either. If you head to http://profile.live.com/details/EditWork.aspx you can edit the work details part of your profile and one of the items ...
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Invite AOL, Google and Hyves contacts to Windows Live
10/8/2009 9:00:39 AM, mynetx
From now on, you can also invite your friends on AOL, Google and Hyves to Windows Live. You choose whether to import your complete address book at once or only selected contacts. To use this service, click on “Add people” in your Windows Live Profile or ...
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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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Messenger problems: Your login data can’t be remembered?
10/7/2009 7:18:25 AM, mynetx
If Messenger doesn’t remember your e-mail address or your password, then you have installed both Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. You have to revert a registry setting that has been changed while Yahoo Messenger was installing. Then you will ...
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Windows Live for Newbie's 9.
10/2/2009 11:01:14 AM, Technogran
Making Space on Windows Live. Now we can move on to creating a Space. What is a Space? Well, think of it as your very own Webpage which is completely free to use and which can be used by you in any way that you wish. Being able to have a Space inside ...
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Dear Windows Live: Here is the latest failed result of my trying to report an account that does absolutely nothing but post spam. Can’t you do something about this?
9/30/2009 10:32:22 PM, X-Evolutionist
This morning, I reported this account: http://cid-e9d4c90b5c91f72b.profile.live.com/?sa=841240496 If somebody would just take 30 seconds to click the link, they will see that this person posted a zillion spam comments in my Space last night, and never ...