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Nov 7, 2010 · Microsoft

Introducing Hotmail for your own e-mail address

Windows Live Hotmail gets a new feature: Now you can access other e-mail accounts from Hotmail. For example, you can send and receive Gmails within Hotmail’s interface. In the...

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Nov 5, 2010 · Microsoft

How-to: Use Windows Live in your favorite language

Did you know that you can switch languages in Windows Live without having to reinstall the Essentials suite? In this tip, let’s take a look how this works: 1. Exit any running...

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Nov 3, 2010

Welcome to Streetview, Oberstaufen!

7,225 inhabitants, idyllic position in the German Alps with mountains and cows—that’s Oberstaufen. At once, this small town gets highly popular, as Google starts its Web service...

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Oct 25, 2010 · Messenger

Messenger Plus 4.9—just an in-between solution

Messenger Plus! is getting near to its fifth version, planned for release in December 2010. Plus! 5 will have complete support for Messenger 2011 (Wave 4). However, in the...

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Oct 25, 2010 · Microsoft

Windows 8 in about 2 years, says MS NL

Dutch Microsoft managers have talked about the Windows 8 roadmap. They also mentioned details about the release of Windows 7 Service Pack 1. Microsoft’s Dutch corporate blog...

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Oct 6, 2010 · Messenger

Available soon: Messenger Plus! 4.9

Since Windows Live Messenger 2011 (code name “Wave 4”) was released last Thursday, I received some questions as to when Messenger Plus! will be updated to work with the new...

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Oct 3, 2010 · Microsoft

How-to: Minimize windows with keyboard in Windows 7

You like using your keyboard for managing everything in Windows? In Windows 7, minimizing and maximizing windows got easier. Instead of accessing the system menu with [Alt] +...

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Oct 2, 2010

Google: Use encrypted search

Terms you enter at Google can be captured with ease. Everything you enter is unencrypted, so not only Google, but also your Internet service provider knows what you are looking...

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Oct 2, 2010

Questions and answers: Migrating your Space to WordPress

As a Windows Live Spaces blogger you must have read that Spaces is now shutting down and that you will now have to migrate your Spaces blog to WordPress, sometime soon. While this...

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Oct 1, 2010 · Apple Messenger

Messenger for iPhone 1.1

Microsoft has released an update for its Windows Live Messenger App for iPhone. It is the first update since the iPhone App was first released back in June 2010. The update fixes...

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Oct 1, 2010

WebP: can it replace JPEG?

Google is developing a new Graphics format called WebP (pronounciated “weppy”). In Google’s efforts to make the Web faster, they already worked out the browser Chrome, a new video...

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Sep 30, 2010

Two years and counting!

Reading this, you might be a regular reader of my blog. Or a first-time visitor. You are probably interested in Windows Live. And perhaps you are using Windows (XP or 7) as your...

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Sep 30, 2010 · Microsoft

Fresh out of the oven: Windows Live Essentials 2011 (Wave 4)

Long awaited, now available: The Windows Live team has released the latest version of its application suite Windows Live Essentials, code-named Wave 4. Essentials extend your...

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Sep 30, 2010 · Microsoft

Live Spaces: Did we see wrong stats?

This week, Microsoft announced the end of its blogging platform Windows Live Spaces. The approx. 30 million users can migrate their Spaces over to WordPress.com. MS-internal...

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Sep 29, 2010 · Microsoft Security

Adding security to Hotmail

With two new features, Hotmail users can access their accounts better in case they have been compromised by criminals. That is what the Windows Live team has announced in the...

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Sep 29, 2010 · Apps

Facebook and Skype - planning for rendez-vous

Facebook and Skype are planning for a tight cooperation. For Facebook users, this means that they will be able to call their friends and send SMS to each other. Video chats will...

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Sep 28, 2010 · Messenger

Messenger error 85ae000b: the reasons

Since last week, there are quite a few users receiving Messenger error code 85ae000b when they try to sign in. Are you among them? Here is the explanation. Reason 1: Your computer...

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Sep 28, 2010 · Apps Microsoft

Codename Office 15: App Store planned?

The next version of Microsoft Office, codenamed Office 15, might get its own App Store. This is what a current job description reveals. According to the current release cycle,...

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Sep 28, 2010 · Microsoft

Windows Live service status now available

You are getting an error in Windows Live or one of the applications and are thus wondering whether the error only occurs with your account, or whether it is a common problem? You...

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Sep 28, 2010 · Microsoft

How-to: Turn off Office 2010 error reporting

While you work with your Office apps, Word, Excel and the likes take note of how you are using them. In regular intervals, Office is transmitting these usage data to Microsoft —...

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