I am really disappointed. I spent the past 3 hours on figuring out how to get the display picture from a user that is signed in with Windows Live Delegated Authentication.
Category: Windows Live
Announced in 2005, Windows Live offers you a broad set of tools to communicate with your friends: Windows Live Essentials applications, web services, and mobile services.
But… I just wanted to sync some files!
Yesterday I needed to set up an automatic backup system for files on 2 Windows servers. I figured out that Windows Live Sync might be good for – synchronizing files (well, yes :P). And as I never tested Sync throroughly yet, I figured out this was a good chance.
History and Future of Live Search and Bing
When you visit www.live.com these days, you get a notification banner within the Bing homepage: “Your access to the Bing homepage from live.com will stop soon.” What will we see at www.live.com in the future?
Windows Live Sync updated
You can use Windows Live Sync to synchronize folders with multiple computers. The Sync team has released an update that fixes a compatibility problem with Windows EasyTransfer.
Minor update for Messenger Plus! Live: 4.83
All the noise around Windows 7—and a new build of Messenger Plus! is released. What’s new? The most important changes: Improved network hooking mechanism. For some people, this will improve how Messenger Plus! catches various network events (used for notifications, the event viewer, …). For other people, this will solve
What happened to my.live.com?
“Windows Live Personalised Experience”—this is what Wikipedia calls my.live.com, the successor of start.com. This service allowed you to put together your own home page with gadgets and other stuff to get you a home on the Web. Much like iGoogle, to be honest. Frozen project, it seems. Dead project? Let’s
Now back: Attaching photos to messages in Hotmail
Turned off last month due to a security issue with Internet Explorer and Active X, the Photo feature for Windows Live Hotmail has now been fixed and made available again. The Windows Live Team announces: Instead of adding pictures as attachments to your Hotmail messages by clicking Attach and then
Windows Live Web Messenger, reinvented
Microsoft Singapore have recently released their web-based Messenger, built on top of the Messenger Library. You don’t need to install anything, as messaging works out-of-the-box. Check it out for free: http://webim.live.sg/ What do you think?
Invite AOL, Google and Hyves contacts to Windows Live
From now on, you can also invite your friends on AOL, Google and Hyves to Windows Live. You choose whether to import your complete address book at once or only selected contacts. To use this service, click on “Add people” in your Windows Live Profile or on your Windows Live
Messenger problems: Your login data can’t be remembered?
If Messenger doesn’t remember your e-mail address or your password, then you have installed both Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. You have to revert a registry setting that has been changed while Yahoo Messenger was installing. Then you will be able to store your sign-in credentials again. Here is