Continuing the series of interviews for Windows Live and You, I talked with the owner of Chinese LiveSide, which is LiveSino.net. He lives in Shanghai, China; many of you will probably know him as “Picturepan2” while his real name is Yan Zhu (??). mynetx: Sorry to steal your night, I
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Windows Live and You: “I like to give people power of choice” (Mauro Jr)
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
Windows Live and You: Messenger and Apple – a good combination?
Found the preceding “Windows Live and You” interviews interesting? This time, I talked with Bram Lancsweert, living in Belgium. He loves Apple and Mac, but also Windows Live. Let’s see how those two fit together. mynetx: Nice that you got some time to talk with me about Windows Live and
Windows Live and You: “I use about every feature in Messenger”
Last days, I promised a new, user-centered series “Windows Live and You”, featuring interviews with people in the Windows Live business as well as articles on the daily impact of Windows Live. I’ve decided to begin this series with an interview of Gregory Sampson, who is… – but let’s ask
How-to: Backups maken en herstellen van uw Plus! voorkeuren
Op een dag was ik eens te denken over nuttige scripts voor Messenger Plus! Live. Ik ging eens kijken in het huidige programma en speelde wat met de “Importeer / Exporteer voorkeuren” optie in de Messenger Plus! voorkeuren. Wat ik daar zag, was de optie waarmee je maken van een
How-to: Backup and restore your Plus! preferences
The other day I was once again thinking of useful add-ons adding functions in Messenger. I went around and played with the “Import/export preferences” option inside the Messenger Plus! preferences. From what I saw, the option is creating a binary *.pld file containing your settings. You would have to export
Internet Explorer 8 released
After some two years of development, Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 8 Final, wanting to get their hands back on the market percents lost to other browsers in the recent years. The strategy is adding some new functions and reinventing the existing IE functionality. Internet Explorer 8 has been released
Twitter OAuth API now live
Now, I’ve got a new dance for y’all called the Soulja Boy. Oh, wait, no, sorry. The OAuth beta is now open to all developers, though. This was the small tweet by Alex Payne, Twitter’s API Lead, announcing the general availablility of OAuth for Twitter, last Monday. OAuth, designed for
Windows Vista SP2 RC now publicly available
Service Pack 2 Release Candidate is now available for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. There is a 32-bit standalone installer (388 MB), as well as a 64-bit installer (614 MB). Contained languages are English, German, French, Japanese and Spanish. The additional ISO image contains all versions of Service Pack
Windows 7 RC1 schon Ende Februar
Scheinbar macht Microsoft den ersten und wahrscheinlich einzigen Release Candidate von Windows 7 bald für Tester verfügbar. Unsere Quellen bestätigten, dass die ersten RC-Builds erstellt wurden. Laut Informationen, die Winfuture.de von Microsoft-nahen Quellen erhalten hat, hat die so genannte “Escrow”-Phase für RC1 am 16. Februar begonnen. Während dieser Phase wird