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Microsoft settles IM spamming case
3/13/2010 2:05:22 PM, mynetx
Today, Microsoft has settled a lawsuit with a Hongkong-based spammer out of court. The company Funmobile had sent its advertisement messages to Windows Live Messenger users. Besides advertisements, phishing messages have been sent, tempting users to ...
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Techies Insider: A look at Messenger’s client caps
3/13/2010 6:39:43 AM, mynetx
You’re interested in possible Client Capabilities of Messenger 2010? Take a look at this summary of the current dogfood build 2583. 3056373808:2088848 Decimal B62C9030:1FDF90 Hexadecimal B....... CapabilityMsgrVersion11: Supports MSNC11 (WL Msgr ...
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Windows Live Writer Wave 4, some more screen grabs.
3/13/2010 2:45:00 AM, Technogran
Of all the leaked screen grabs of the upcoming Windows Live Wave 4 updates posted on the Internet so far Windows Live Live Writer certainly seems to be the furthest ahead in terms of development judging by these pictures. The screen grab ...
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Uploading folders to SkyDrive
2/20/2010 10:02:00 AM, Ludwig J.
There are times when I want to upload not just a few pictures but a whole collection to my SkyDrive. Turns out that this is not as simple as I first imagined. Here is the procedure I attempted. You may have run into this yourself. I logged in to my Live ...
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Video on your Spaces page
2/19/2010 3:58:55 PM, Ludwig J.
You want to perk up your page, so you come across Video and Windows Media Player in the Add modules tab: Oh joy, oh rapture! Video on my page, Media Player on my page, hurray! Let’s start with Video. In the edit window you find that can embed videos ...
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There are no Windows Live items in the What’s New feed this morning…
2/19/2010 9:53:25 AM, X-Evolutionist
Something must be going on in Windows Live. It is my personal hope that essential services are being shut down for testing and Wave 4 is getting ready to roll out. I am looking forward to what improvements might be forthcoming in Spaces, Groups, etc. My ...
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Windows Live: Access to foreign accounts investigated
2/18/2010 4:15:48 AM, mynetx
Microsoft has started an investigation after having received reports that some users got access to other users’ accounts when using mobile devices. A limited number of cases is currently inspected where users of the mobile versions of Windows Live ...
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Spaces – Your showplace on the Web
2/17/2010 8:01:37 PM, Ludwig J.
Your Spaces page is your face on the Web, this is how friends, family and strangers see you. It is easy to shape your face to your personality. Windows Live Spaces pages contain “modules”. You can select what modules to show, how they are arranges, design ...
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On the Death and Dying of My.Live.Com
2/16/2010 9:55:52 PM, Jeffrey
Denial and Isolation. We’ve all speculated for some time now that my.live.com would not be long of this world. This is nothing new; we’ve all seen it before. Before Live.com there was msn.com. And over time, much of it was gutted. Some of it came to ...
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Spaces – Your “mansion in the sky”
2/16/2010 1:47:58 PM, Ludwig J.
With your Hotmail or Windows Live e-mail account you get more than just a mail box. You get a cornucopia of services – a veritable “mansion in the sky”. This mansion can be a very private place or you can have elaborate public spaces, with rooms for just ...