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What happened to my.live.com?
10/21/2009 1:45:31 AM, mynetx
“Windows Live Personalised Experience”—this is what Wikipedia calls my.live.com, the successor of start.com. This service allowed you to put together your own home page with gadgets and other stuff to get you a home on the Web. Much like iGoogle, to be ...
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What happened to my.live.com?
10/17/2009 3:41:55 AM, mynetx
“Windows Live Personalised Experience”—this is what Wikipedia calls my.live.com, the successor of start.com. This service allowed you to put together your own home page with gadgets and other stuff to get you a home on the Web. Much like iGoogle, to be ...
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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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Reaching out
9/23/2009 9:17:05 AM, Greg
I recently mused in one of my Windows Live Groups about the future of Windows Live Home, the role of the What’s New feed, and dragging people kicking and screaming into my Windows Live network. It seemed like interesting fodder for a Clubhouse post, so ...
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How-to: Customize your Windows Live Home
9/9/2009 3:00:10 AM, mynetx
Did you know that you can customize the layout on your Windows Live Home page according to your personal wishes? Here is how to: Open http://home.live.com/ and click on Options, then Customize this page. To change the order, choose the element to move ...
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Writer and the Ribbon. Wishes for Wave 4.
7/28/2009 5:08:00 AM, Technogran
One area in the eagerly awaited Wave 4 updates to the Essentials Desktop Applications that I would love to see applied is a consistency across the User Interface wherever possible. As many users who have been testing Windows 7 are well aware, the user ...
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Stop the insanity: Choose who can send you invitations and private messages
6/23/2009 3:26:15 PM, Windows Live Dev Team
Hi – I’m Ann and I design stuff in the social networking area of Windows Live. One of the things I love about Windows Live is the variety of settings you can change to suit your preferences. You can pick different layouts and themes, what kind of content ...
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Windows Live and You: “Development of Messenger has been phenomenal” (Sean Bradford, Neowin)
6/5/2009 10:53:56 AM, mynetx
Ever wanted to meet an unofficial Microsoft Evangelist? Sean Bradford is one of them, and he has some interesting points on Messenger and the other Windows Live products. mynetx: Wonderful that you take some minutes to talk with me about Windows Live and ...
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New home.live.com enhancement spotted
4/25/2009 3:29:31 AM, Jamie
I’ve just spotted a small new feature at http://home.live.com. You can now update your personal status message (PSM) at http://home.live.com without a full postback (i.e. without a page refresh). In other words, its quicker. Previously this behaviour ...
