As you may have seen, my blog is using a new Windows Live service, enabling you to chat with your contacts in real-time! If you haven’t noticed it yet, just look at the bottom of the mynetx – Windows Live Enhanced homepage. What you see there is the new Windows
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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
Live Wave 4: Ideen sammeln
Wave 4. Welche Verbindungen ruft dieser Ausdruck in dir wach? Welche Ideen bekommst du, wenn du ihn hörst? Welche Wünsche sollten, endlich, in Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 (2010) umgesetzt werden? Was vermisst du schon seit Ewigkeiten in Windows Live? Und warum? Bitte schreibe mir deine Meinung, Ideen, Wünsche –
Live Wave 4 wishlist: Collecting ideas
Wave 4. What connections does this phrase bring up for you? What ideas do you get when you hear it? What wishes should, finally, be realized, in Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 (2010)? What have you been missing in Windows Live for ages? And why? Please tell your opinions, ideas,
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
IE8 Development finished
Apparently the IE Team has finished the development of Internet Explorer 8. The IE8 Final is likely to have the build string “8.0.6001.18691”, according to the Russian site WZor.net. According to internal sources, even the platform versions and languages have been made available. The presentation of Internet Explorer 8 Final
Win 7: RC at the end of February
It seems that Microsoft is going to make the first and probably only Release Candidate of Windows 7 available soon to testers. Our sources confirmed that the first RC builds have been compiled. According to information Winfuture.de got from Microsoft-near sources, the so-called “Escrow phase” for RC1 has been started
Upgrade notes starting to appear in Messenger
It appears that the Messenger team is planning to introduce upgrade notes to all Messenger users soon. From today, 17 February 2009, onwards, the first notices will be appearing in the Messenger 2009 Beta version. Additionally, all users using the Messenger RC build (14.0.8050.1202) are asked to upgrade their Messenger
Essentials QFE update #8064 is out
Like the rumors had already announced, the Quick Fix Engineering update for Windows Live Essentials has been released and is now available for download. The pack, having the build number 14.0.8064.0206, does not offer any new functionality, but addresses some bugs. However, the appearance of Messenger in Windows 7 has
Windows XP enters Extended Support Period
From April 14, 2009, onwards, Microsoft is retiring the Mainstream Support for Windows XP, covering all editions. Afterward, only critical bugs in Windows XP will be fixed. Many private people as well as companies love Windows XP so much that they don’t even think about changing to Windows Vista. However,