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Windows Live Writer is one of the first applications of the Essentials suite to enter the planning phase for its next release, called “Wave 5.” Now is the time to get involved into the plannings, adding your ideas and wishes.

Often, Facebook knows non-members surprisingly well: Facebook is also collecting data about non-members—with the aid of the members.

I thought it was about time to let you know what I am currently working on. While you can find the complete list at the Projects page, here is a summary of the most interesting bits.
MPLCode
A Messenger Plus! script for sending/receiving programming codes formatted instead of plain-text.
WLMStatus
Allows to display your current Messenger status on [...]

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 [...]

Ever wanted to meet an unofficial Microsoft Evangelist? Sean Bradford is one of them, and he has some interesting points on Messenger and the other Windows Live products.
mynetx: Wonderful that you take some minutes to talk with me about Windows Live and You.
Please tell me a bit about yourself. Is your life directly or [...]

Found the preceding “Windows Live and You” interviews interesting?
This time, I talked with Bram Lancsweert, living in Belgium. He loves Apple and Mac, but also Windows Live. Let’s see how those two fit together.
mynetx: Nice that you got some time to talk with me about Windows Live and You.
To begin, please describe yourself and your [...]

The other day I was once again thinking of useful add-ons adding functions in Messenger. I went around and played with the “Import/export preferences” option inside the Messenger Plus! preferences. From what I saw, the option is creating a binary *.pld file containing your settings. You would have to export it, copy it via some [...]

Wave 4.

Welche Verbindungen ruft dieser Ausdruck in dir wach?
Welche Ideen bekommst du, wenn du ihn hörst?
Welche Wünsche sollten, endlich, in Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 (2010) umgesetzt werden?
Was vermisst du schon seit Ewigkeiten in Windows Live? Und warum?

Bitte schreibe mir deine Meinung, Ideen, Wünsche – alles was dir in den Sinn kommt. Das Wichtige dabei [...]

Since Microsoft published the latest Windows Live Messenger Beta, I received many complaints about Messenger Plus! not working with that Beta. Seems like people are really missing Plus!’s functions, but most folks only notice that when the enhancements are not present in their Messenger. There were some hacks around to get Plus! working in that [...]