Archive: Posts Tagged ‘Calendar’

Source: LiveSino.net Live Mail Wave 4: Possible New Features and a New Photo

1 comment January 20th, 2010
Windows Live Mail Wave 4, Main window

Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 might get Gmail-alike features like Labeling and Archiving. LiveSino.net has published a new screenshot of the Windows Live Mail Wave 4 main window.

Yahoo is socializing—or just copying Windows Live?

Comments Off September 1st, 2009

Yahoo! has updated Messenger and Mail with numerous new features. Send e-mails with attachments up to 25 MB (instead of 10 MB). Web mail: combined Calendar and Notes feature. Add attachments via drag and drop from your desktop. Images in mails are shown as previews, they are resizable and can be rotated. Sort your inbox [...]

My browser is a bad guy :(

2 comments August 26th, 2009

“Windows Live is designed for you, but maybe not for your browser.” This was what I saw on my screen when I opened Windows Live Calendar with Google Chrome. The alert advises me to use either Internet Explorer 6 or higher, Safari 3 or higher, or Firefox 2 or higher, in this order. Questions arising [...]

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 Live and You: “Building the right platform for web sites to plug into Windows Live users” (Angus Logan, Microsoft)

Comments Off August 16th, 2009

Welcome to a new interview in the summer edition of the series “Windows Live and You”! Today I have invited a special guest to talk with him about his personal relation to Windows Live: let’s welcome Angus Logan, Senior Technical Product Manager for Live Services at Microsoft. mynetx: Angus, it is a pleasure for me [...]

Wave 4 exclusive: Windows Live Events shutting down

2 comments August 3rd, 2009

Windows Live Events is a Windows Live service enabling users in Windows Live Spaces to share and plan different types of Events happening around them while collaborating with other services such as Windows Live Calendar and Windows Live Spaces. In 2010, Windows Live Events is going to retire, and existing data will be removed. This [...]

Hotmail annoyances

4 comments July 2nd, 2009

Windows Live Hotmail is great: it’s fast, reliable and doesn’t require me to install any client application but a browser. But there are also things in Hotmail that annoy me. Marking mail as junk The Junk filters in Hotmail are very good, as they filter most unsolicited e-mail I receive. However, some e-mail gets delivered [...]

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

Comments Off 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? [...]

Windows Live and You: “I like to give people power of choice” (Mauro Jr)

Comments Off May 2nd, 2009

Let’s see what relation with Windows Live a Brazilian Messenger tester and skinner has. Some days ago, I talked about this with Mauro Júnior, a soon-to-be universitary student, more commonly known as “Blessedguy”. mynetx: Nice that you got some minutes for this interview. For the beginning, describe yourself and your connection with Windows Live, in [...]

Group Chat Comparison: Groups.im vs. Messenger 2009

Comments Off 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 [...]