Messenger Plus! Live 4.82, one of the last updates to version 4, has been released. It features complete support for the current Windows 7 Release Candidate as well as some other interesting news, like these: The settings of your scripts and skins can now be exported from the preferences panel
End of life for MSN Web Messenger: 30 June 2009
The Windows Live team has announced the end of life for MSN Web Messenger. Since Windows Live now supports instant messaging integrated into both Hotmail and People, there is no need to maintain 2 web messengers at the same time. Additionally, site owners are free to get their own web
Summer in the city
These days, with increasing temperatures, we had some severe thunderstorms already. Rain, clouds and sunshine are all facets of the upcoming summer, a time of less work, more free time, enjoyment, … fun. The last days and weeks, we started preparing for this year’s summer vacations, and Windows played a
Follow-up on Opera Unite: What it is, why it is, and what it is not
Yesterday I presented Opera Unite to you, an add-on in the latest Opera 10 builds enabling you to use your web browser as server. After my post, I received some opinions about Opera Unite. Let me quote one of these statements, a quite hard conclusion: I might be wrong, but
Your most emotional moment with Messenger
In this post of the series “Windows Live and You”, I am asking you to tell me about your favorite memories with Windows Live Messenger. When did you first start using Messenger? What’s your most memorable Messenger conversation? When certain features were introduced over the years, which ones really stood
Flock 2.5, with better Twitter and Facebook Chat support
Flock, the “social Web browser”, has been updated to 2.5 (download Flock 2.5). This version adds support for Facebook Chat right in the browser: you will see the chat toolbar on any website you are currently browsing, as long as you are signed in at Facebook in the background. The
Opera Unite vs. Windows Live, or: How will the client-server future look like?
Opera Unite, released as Beta on 16 June, can transform any computer into a web server. How might the underlying idea this affect our daily web usage? Once upon a time, web servers were invented. These used to serve first static, then dynamic content to clients, to us. The basis
USB device doesn’t work anymore in XP? Manual driver installation might help.
This evening, C.N., a friend, told me about a problem with USB devices on Windows XP (SP3). Whenever she wanted to connect a device with one of the USB ports, she could not use it—whether it was her mouse, her webcam or her digital camera. She couldn’t even access her
How-to get your webcam working again in Messenger
You have a webcam, connect it to your computer, but Messenger doesn’t recognize it? There are several tips you might try out. Restart Messenger. The camera might appear now. Doesn’t work? Restart Windows, having the webcam plugged in (if external). Is the cable connected correctly? Look in “My Computer” (Windows
Windows Live and You: “Development of Messenger has been phenomenal” (Sean Bradford, Neowin)
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