Archive: Posts Tagged ‘Groups’

Office 2010 Beta: Technical Preview will close

Office October 24th, 2009

I just received the following e-mail from Connect: “The Beta release of Office 2010 marks the end of the Technical Preview program.”

The days are numbered for Messenger 2008

Messenger September 20th, 2009

In this post:

End of Life reached
What people think
Technical reasons
Get Messenger 2009
In case of problems

End of Life reached

Starting September 15, 2009, users are required to have the latest version of Messenger installed on their computer in order to sign in and continue using the Messenger service. To download the latest version of Messenger, go to the [...]

Windows Live and You: “Making my views known on behalf of the ‘little everyday user’” (Technogran)

Windows Live and You August 21st, 2009

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 the UK and likes Windows Live very much.
mynetx: Technogran, it is [...]

Windows Live and You: “Windows Live services help me keep in touch” (Lance Manasse)

Windows Live and You August 12th, 2009

After a longer break, the summer edition of the series “Windows Live and You” is finally back. Today I will be talking with Lance Manasse, who lives in the United Kingdom and is also known by his nickname “Salem”.
mynetx: Please tell me a bit about yourself. Is your life directly or indirectly involved [...]

Opera Unite vs. Windows Live, or: How will the client-server future look like?

Windows Live June 16th, 2009

Opera Unite, released as Beta on 16 June, can transform any computer into a web server. How might the underlying idea this affect our daily web usage?
Once upon a time, web servers were invented. These used to serve first static, then dynamic content to clients, to us. The basis was simple: a small [...]

Windows Live and You: “Messenger is like the phone: I just use it” (Kip Kniskern)

Windows Live and You May 29th, 2009

What’s the site where you get Windows Live news first? — Probably your answer is “LiveSide”, and that has its reason. I had an interesting discussion with Kip Kniskern, who is one of the authors at LiveSide.net.
mynetx: Please tell me a bit about yourself. Is your life directly or indirectly involved with [...]

Windows Live and You: “I use a variety of the Live services” (Jonathan Kay)

Windows Live and You May 15th, 2009

This time I spoke with a member of the Windows Live Community about his thoughts and ideas. Many of you might know Jonathan Kay as a helpful Messenger expert.
mynetx: Nice to see you! Windows Live and You—that includes some personal questions as well. You could start with describing yourself and your connection with Windows Live, [...]

Windows Live and You: “My life revolves around Messenger” (Siebe Tolsma)

Windows Live and You April 30th, 2009

As promised, here is the interview I had been talking of. I don’t know how many of you know Siebe, however I am sure you will find the following interview in the series “Windows Live and You” interesting. Have fun!
mynetx: Nice that I may talk with you a bit about Windows Live and You. Would [...]

Group Chat Comparison: Groups.im vs. Messenger 2009

Messenger December 22nd, 2008

This is a guest post by Leon Guo, Product Planner Groups.im.
Recently Microsoft came out with the new Windows Live Groups, and I have found a similar service to compare with it from http://groups.im/. Both of them are used by people all around the world and both came out to the market at 2008, Groups.im is [...]

Änderungen im Messenger-RC

Messenger December 16th, 2008

Falls du dich wunderst welche Änderungen von der letzten Beta zum RC gemacht wurden, hier ist eine Zusammenfassung.

Das Design wurde auf Wave 3 aktualisiert.

Das Design der Benachrichtigungen wurde geändert. Sie nutzen jetzt Direct3D 9.

Die Einträge in Was gibt’s Neues-Feeds sind nun ordentlich verlinkt.

Es gibt eine Reihe neue Szenenbilder, und auch einige neue Standard-Anzeigebilder. [...]