Yesterday, a bugfix update without visible changes has been published for nearly all Windows Live Essentials applications. This increases the version number of all programs except for Windows Live Mesh and Windows Live Family Safety from 15.4.3902.0922 to 15.4.3508.1109.
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.
How-to: Style Messenger to use your own font
Seeing the same font everywhere can get boring at times. Are you wondering how to style your Messenger and use your favorite font? Let’s take a look.
How-to: Show emoticons in Messenger conversations
You wonder why no emoticons are showing up in chats with your friends? Here’s a solution.
How-to: Change your name in Messenger 2011
Starting from Windows Live Messenger 2011, your friends will always see your real name when talking with you. The name shown to your friends now originates from your Windows Live Profile. Thus, this is the place to look at when you want to change your display name in Messenger.
How-to: Enable full SSL encryption for your Hotmail session
Microsoft’s web mail service Hotmail, part of Windows Live, now supports SSL encryption throughout your session. This helps that nobody in the middle can read what you get in your Inbox neither what you send.
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.
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.
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 meantime Yuna Software has published an in-between version, Messenger Plus! 4.9, with only partial support for the new Windows Live 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 Messenger version. Here are some details.
Questions and answers: Migrating your Space to WordPress
Here are some FAQs you should check before migrating your Windows Live Spaces to WordPress!