Xbox Live: Microsoft suspends more than 500,000 users
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 explanation for the user...
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. Would...
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 )....
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: MSN.com has been a prominent “portico” to Microsoft’s renowned services to the...
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...
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...
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...
Office 2010 Beta: Technical Preview will close
Being part of the Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview program on Connect, I just received the following e-mail (as have all participants). Connect is Microsoft’s place for...
Windows 7 is out. What now?
Menthix # 24 Oct 2009 Saturday 06:09 What now? Now absolutely nothing happens :p. The people who really want it already had it for a while or at least ordered it. The normal...
Ten reasons for Windows 7
- Get quicker access to all of your stuff—use Pin and Jump Lists to keep the programs and files you use the most right at your fingertips. - Manage open windows easier—resize and...
Windows Live Sync updated
You can use Windows Live Sync to synchronize folders with multiple computers. The Sync team has released an update that fixes a compatibility problem with Windows EasyTransfer...
Minor update for Messenger Plus! Live: 4.83
All the noise around Windows 7—and a new build of Messenger Plus! is released. What’s new? The most important changes: > Improved network hooking mechanism. For some people, this...
What happened to my.live.com?
“Windows Live Personalised Experience”—this is what Wikipedia calls my.live.com, the successor of start.com. This service allowed you to put together your own home page with...
Now back: Attaching photos to messages in Hotmail
Richard # 07 Jan 2010 Thursday 01:19 When are you going to include Mozilla Firefox in this app? Also, I am anxiously awaiting a new version of Internet Explorer with the swelvt to...
Windows Live Web Messenger, reinvented
Microsoft Singapore have recently released their web-based Messenger, built on top of the Messenger Library. You don’t need to install anything, as messaging works out-of-the-box....
100 phishers charged in largest cybercrime case
After investigating 53 people in the United Status and 47 more people worldwide for 2 years, the FBI has charged them in a large phishing case in the U.S. and Egypt. According to...
Invite AOL, Google and Hyves contacts to Windows Live
From now on, you can also invite your friends on AOL, Google and Hyves to Windows Live. You choose whether to import your complete address book at once or only selected contacts....
This Week’s Thoughts: Hidden data
Many people send texts, spreadsheets, photos and videos—while not knowing that they contain much information that other people can discover with ease and that might be indiscreet....
How-to: Change your Windows Live password
More than 20,000 Windows Live account credentials were published recently. That is why you should change your own password, even if your account was not among them. Here is how to...