Live Search gets Bing – and what about Live.com?
Bing is live. The team says: > You probably didn’t wake up today expecting an entirely new search experience. But – Bing! – here it is. Why a new engine? Why just now? > The way...
Xbox 360 gets socialized
Microsoft announced today on its E3 Press Conference that Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm integration will be brought to the Xbox 360 dashboard. - Tweeting will be easy as nothing...
How-to: Repair Messenger Plus! scripts and skins importing
You can’t import any Messenger Plus! scripts or skins anymore, getting an innocent message box like this one? You will have to repair the internal shortcuts for .plsc and .plsk...
Peeking into Bing for Messenger
Microsoft is renaming Live Search to “Bing” and launching it publicly from June 1 to June 3, 2009. Rather than being another search engine, it claims being a “decision engine”...
Windows Live and You: “Messenger is like the phone: I just use it” (Kip Kniskern)
What’s the site where you get Windows Live news first? — Probably your answer is “LiveSide”, and that has its reason. I had an interesting discussion with Kip Kniskern, who is one...
Reason for Error 810003c1
Are you getting Error 810003c1: “We were unable to sign you in to the .NET Messenger Service” when trying to sign in to Messenger recently? Microsoft has cut off several countries...
Windows Live and You: “From The Beginning” (Dane N.)
Another great member of the Messenger community, who has been there for quite long, is Dane. Are you interested in his ideas for Windows Live? Let’s see. mynetx: Nice that you got...
Love Coldplay? Get new Live album “LeftRightLeftRightLeft” for free!
“Playing live is what we love. This album is a thank you to our fans—the people who give us a reason to do it and make it happen,” says Coldplay. Do you love Coldplay? Check out...
Windows Live and You: “I use a variety of the Live services” (Jonathan Kay)
This time I spoke with a member of the Windows Live Community about his thoughts and ideas. Many of you might know Jonathan Kay as a helpful Messenger expert. mynetx: Nice to see...
How-to: Minimize Messenger to the system notification area in Windows 7
1 # 14 May 2009 Thursday 21:50 how about clicking customize choosing the icon and setting it to show icon and ... Mo # 15 May 2009 Friday 05:24 Perfect. Thank you Gilly_da_gr8 #...
Windows Live and You: “Send myself through Messenger” (Frank Mänz, Microsoft Germany)
malikaR # 17 Sep 2009 Thursday 04:41 How do I take off the dam sounds on this thing, it is not responded to muting, I dont want no sounds in my ear when i am working, i just want...
Phunk'n 2: The popular skin, reinvented
Multimedia designer and star skinner Will Ingles has released the Messenger 2009 version of his popular skin set Phunk'n. > I had to completely recode the entire skin and re-think...
Windows Live and You: mynetx, a dedicated Windows Live user and developer
Because I am bothering my co-workers and friends with my interviews, Bram Lancsweert (see his interview) thought that it was time to ask me about my connection to Windows Live....
Windows Live and You: A Chinese Microsoft fanboy (Yan Zhu)
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...
How-to: Save your Chat Logs in Live Mesh
When I recently tried to save my chat logs somewhere in the Cloud, I failed using SkyDrive; I simply couldn't mount it as virtual drive in Windows. (Yes, I know about Gladinet;...
Updated: Windows Live Video Messages
Many people don't know about it: Windows Live Video Messages, part of the Web services. Introduced in September 2008, It combines digital video with e-mail into a service that...
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,...
Update to the Web Toolkit
Keiji Kanazawa just announced an update to the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit. He states: > With this update, - The Messenger Web Toolkit UI Controls should work better in IE6...
Windows Live and You: "My life revolves around Messenger" (Siebe Tolsma)
As promised, here is the interview I had been talking of. I don't know how many of you know Siebe, however I am sure you will find the following interview in the series "Windows...
Windows Live Profile Updates: Facebook, Last.fm and more!
Since yesterday, the list of Web Activity providers available for integration into your Windows Live Profile has been extended. Major providers have been added, some of them had...