Archive: Posts Tagged ‘RSS’

Windows Live Alerts—have they fallen asleep?

Comments Off January 5th, 2010
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“Alerts delivers the latest information that’s important to you,” claims Microsoft. But can Windows Live Alerts still compete with RSS feeds, social network status updates, tweets and all other real-time news?

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

1 comment 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 nice [...]

Windows Vista SP2 RC now publicly available

Comments Off March 4th, 2009

Service Pack 2 Release Candidate is now available for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. There is a 32-bit standalone installer (388 MB), as well as a 64-bit installer (614 MB). Contained languages are English, German, French, Japanese and Spanish. The additional ISO image contains all versions of Service Pack 2 RC. Windows Vista Service [...]