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An engineering blog for Windows Live
2/4/2010 1:32:14 PM, Windows Live Dev Team
Chris Jones, the Corporate Vice President for Windows Live, recently launched a new engineering blog called Inside Windows Live. The new blog provides a place for engineers and others who work on Windows Live to share insight into what it takes to build ...
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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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Social Media and Office 2010 Integration
11/24/2009 4:15:28 PM, Jay D
Connecting to others via social media continues to grow exponentially. I can remember the day someone mentioned Twitter and I said “Twitter! What’s that?” I then assumed you must be a Twit to Tweet, but boy was I wrong on so many levels. Twitter, ...
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Really specific syndication
11/5/2009 11:34:17 AM, Greg
You may already know a lot about RSS, the technology that empowers consumers to subscribe to a data source (such as a web page) and receive updates via a reader or news aggregator. You may know that it's a great way to follow a popular blog, because those ...
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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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Windows Live Mail Desktop For RSS
9/20/2009 5:56:20 AM, Manan
I’ve been using Sage & then Sage Too on Firefox for my outrageously insane number of feeds that I follow. As the number increased Sage didn’t seem to be adequate and hence my search for a RSS desktop client began. Started using Live Mail for mail ...
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Windows Live Mail Desktop For RSS
9/20/2009 5:56:20 AM, Manan
I’ve been using Sage & then Sage Too on Firefox for my outrageously insane number of feeds that I follow. As the number increased Sage didn’t seem to be adequate and hence my search for a RSS desktop client began. Started using Live Mail for mail ...
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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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Adding a News Tracker to Your Space Using Bing
7/6/2009 4:58:16 AM, Jeffrey
If you’ve used Windows Live for any period of time, then you’ve probably discovered that there are some things you can customize on your profile. There isn’t much. But there is one place that Windows Live grants you a great deal of creative control and ...
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Adventures Along the Road to Windows 7
5/22/2009 12:09:23 AM, Jeffrey
Like the rest of the throngs, I excitedly installed Windows 7 beta sometime back onto one of my computers when it became available. This required a little planning as I going to put it on a computer that runs Vista, which also has everything I use ...
