Windows Live Messenger 2010, codenamed “Wave 4,” will add badges to your profile. Badges are small icons that you can use to show that you are supporting a certain team or idea; they are campaigns or affiliations that you can place on your profile.
Tag: Windows Live
Messenger problems: Contacts appear offline while being online?
For the past several hours or so, the Messenger servers have been showing the majority of contacts offline. You can however still talk to contacts using offline message. There were other similar issues earlier on in the day and the problem just seems to have progressively gotten worse.
Windows Live 2010 Roadmap surfaces
Many of you are looking forward to the progress that the Windows Live team is making with its next Essentials version. Codenamed “Wave 4,” Windows Live 2010 will take 5 months from today until it is released as RTM. Francisco Martín García, connected to Microsoft Iberia, has published details about Microsoft’s internal planning.
How-to: Link 2 Hotmail accounts / Windows Live IDs
You have more than one Windows Live ID — for example one in the office and one privately? You can link both with each other. If you do that, you can sign in at a Windows Live website like Hotmail once and access information in both accounts.
Microsoft settles IM spamming case
Today, Microsoft has settled a lawsuit with a Hongkong-based spammer out of court. The company Funmobile had sent its advertisement messages to Windows Live Messenger users.
Techies Insider: A look at Messenger’s client caps
You’re interested in possible Client Capabilities of Messenger 2010? Take a look at this summary of the current dogfood build 2583.
Messenger 2010: Get the new emoticons now!
Messenger 2010 will get a new set of emoticons. You don’t want to wait until Windows Live 2010 (Wave 4) is released? There is a way how you can use the new emoticons right now.
Windows Live Writer 2010, discovered
The Chinese news platform cnbeta.com has published new screenshots of Windows Live Writer 2010 Beta (Wave 4 Milestone 3).
Windows Live: Access to foreign accounts investigated
Microsoft has started an investigation after having received reports that some users got access to other users’ accounts when using mobile devices.
New features in Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4
Hotmail Wave 4 gets new features like Starring items as well as displaying messages in conversations. Thus, Microsoft fulfills its promise to watch closely what users like in competitive services, like Google’s web mailer.