Not being able to use the Xbox 360 online features is probably a nightmare for many people. A nightmare that came true for more than 500,000 users. The reason: they have a modified Xbox 360.
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Windows Live adds 19 Web Activities, including YouTube
Do you love creating videos and sharing them with your friends? This has just got easier. Starting from today, you can add YouTube to your Windows Live Profile as Web Activity. How?
Complicated Messenger Library
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.
Preview of new MSN homepage, getting socialized
Today Microsoft unvealed its new format for the MSN.com homepage in a public preview.
What are the most interesting changes?
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?
View progress of HTTP uploads and form submissions
The HTTP protocol does not include any progress displayed to you while you send a file or large form to a webserver. Normally, web masters work around this issue by using a Flash object. But not everybody has Flash.
Windows and You: By an ordinary user (Technogran)
Welcome to a new series on this blog. Windows and You will feature how people deal with and think about Microsoft Windows. It gives an insight what you like most in Windows as well as what you want to see in the next version. Let’s start the series with Technogran, an avid Windows user already running Windows 7.
Malicious Windows Update mails in the wild
When I opened my mail this morning, I found a message pretending to be from Microsoft. It offered me to install a Critical Update for Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express (KB910721), and also sent the download link.
Office 2010 Beta: Technical Preview will close
I just received the following e-mail from Connect: “The Beta release of Office 2010 marks the end of the Technical Preview program.”