Tag: WINDOWS LIVE

The New York Times reports that Microsoft is set to launch software this week that will more seamlessly connect the company's desktop software (like Windows), with its online services (like Windows Live Search, Mail and Spaces). While Microsoft's competitors in the past have been desktop software makers, competition is increasingly coming online from companies like Google and Zoho. On the one ...

Personalized webpages are all business when it comes to the New York Times personalized My Times page. Like other start pages, Netvibes, iGoogle, PageFlakes, MyYahoo and Windows Live, MyTimes allows users to pull in all of their important everyday RSS news and build a single resource. Widgets like weather, Flickr, stock quotes and crosswords can also be added to pages. Sections can be dragged ...

Microsoft is preparing to launch a public beta of Windows Live Folders, a service that will let you upload and share files from your web browser (Internet Explorer or Firefox). You'll get 500MB of free space with a Windows Live ID, and you can upload files up to 50MB in size. Sure, there are plenty of other free file hosting services that give you more storage space, including AOL's 5GB XDrive ...

It looks like Microsoft is getting ready to release Windows Live Hotmail sometime in the next few weeks, although no official release date has been set yet. The new web mail client updates Microsoft's existing Hotmail service. Winxperts.net has some screenshots and info on the new release. According to their tipster, Windows Live Hotmail will include an improved user interface, a reading pane ...

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Microsoft has launched a beta of its new Windows Live for TV (formerly known as Nemo). Basically, what Windows Live for TV does is add a ten foot interface to a number of Windows Live services, such as Spaces, Messenger, and Live Call. The program is meant to work with Windows Vista Media Center. That means you can plug your PC into your TV and access Windows live services from the comfort of ...

Considering the backlash from publishers Google has received for its book search offering--despite the fact that it's publishers whom it benefits most--one wouldn't think Microsoft would touch book search with a ten-foot pole. But here we are two years after Google launched what was then called Google Print, and Microsoft is set to launch its own book search offering in beta today. Windows Live ...

Microsoft has launched a public beta of Windows Live Search for mobile, and David Ciccone over at Mobility Today has been kind enough to demonstrate Live Search on his Windows Mobile phone. The service service is free, but you'll need a J2ME-capable or Windows Mobile phone and a data plan to to try it out. Overall it looks pretty nifty. You can search for maps or directions, and can even get ...

Just two years after Google launched its SMS search service, Microsoft has launched a beta version of its own SMS service that lets you perform Windows Live searches from a cell phone. The service is available to Cingular, Verizon, Sprint Nextel, and Alltel customers in the uS. Here's how it works. Send a SMS text message to WLIVE (95483) For a business, type the name and location (street ...

Did you know that every time you log onto Gmail you're getting infected? Okay, okay, you're probably not, but Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare thinks otherwise. Many OneCare users are reporting that every time they access Gmail, they are confronted by an alert telling them that the page is infected with the BAT/BWG.A virus. Unless Google has really ramped up its world domination schedule, it's ...

Microsoft is doing some connecting with leading edge suppliers in Europe to boost its Live service. Soon 375 millions people are going to be able to IM each other using mobiles or PC's though a deal with Orange in France. The new service will be called Orange Messenger by Windows Live. The application will essentially allow Orange customers to either use the IM tool online, or on their mobile ...

Windows Live Agents (similar to IM-bots on other services) are on their way from Microsoft. Since the Microsoft acquisition of Colloquis this week has given them new ways to interact with online visitors, these Windows Live Agents will be providing help for Microsoft customers coming soon. XBOX gamers looking for tech-support should be the first to experience the new technology in action. Let's ...

The time comes in the life of software when it must say goodbye, it boards a plane, and with sad music in its ears and tears in your eyes, you fly away to another time, another day. That is what Windows Live has done, after living in Beta for a while, it has boarded the plane and flown to another place and a new life. A place called Live. So its official, Windows Live has said goodbye to Beta. ...

Microsoft is working hard at beefing up its "Live" service offering. Right now it seems like they have everything under the sun listed in Windows Live. Current offerings include Mail, Messenger, Gallery, Mail Desktop, Q & A, Product Search, and now the Windows Live Hotspot Locator. The Windows Live Hotspot Locator is actually a nice way to check for WiFi access, both free and paid. Simply ...

Windows Desktop Search has unfortunately had a bit of a spotty record as of late. Those of you early adopters that have been running the Office 2007 beta have been subjected to the previous version which had the UI stripped out of it. This wasn't a problem for searching Outlook, but otherwise it was pretty neutered. Worse, the indexer ate up a ridiculous amount of resources, and performance was ...