April, 2008

Live Mesh week: Ray Ozzie’s biggest bet since Groove?

We’ve been telling you to get ready for this since last December, and this week, Ray Ozzie and the Windows Live Core team are preparing to unveil their first big project, Live Mesh.  We gave you the rundown on …

Live Maps part 2: Export Collections to Nav device

In part one of this little series on new features of Live Maps, Steve Lombardi, a Live Maps program manager, showed us around Live Maps Collections, and MapCruncher.  In the second part, we’ll talk about exporting a Live Maps …

Microsoft Announces Changes for Accessing Hotmail with Outlook Express

Important news if you currently access your Windows Live Hotmail with Outlook Express, come June 30th. this will no longer be possible.

A change is coming for users that access Hotmail with Outlook Express. Outlook Express uses a protocol called

New search.live.com homepage

glyph New elements of Live Search continue to roll out, the latest at http://search.live.com.  After an email notification this afternoon regarding a new page at my.live.com (which doesn’t seem to be live yet), where the personalized pages first started by …

Microsoft switches personalised live.com homepage to my.live.com

In an email sent out to Windows Live users, Microsoft today announced that from mid-April, personalised Live.com pages will be available from http://my.live.com. Just last week, the title of the page switched to “Windows Live Personalized Experience”, suggesting that …

Albany Beta launches today, what is it?

Microsoft launches Albany Beta today, but what is it? The name reveals nothing. “Albany” is the codename for a new all-in-one subscription service of essential software and services for consumers. It consists of Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007

I’m Initiative Participants Select UNICEF as Top Charity in First Year of Microsoft’s Initiative

Remember I’m making a difference? Now a year has passed we get to know some of the results. The Initiative has raised $1.3 million in total.

"The generous support and passion of our Windows Live Messenger customers participating in

Live Maps with Steve Lombardi: Part 1 – Explore Collections and Mapcruncher

The newest release of Live Maps last week introduced some pretty cool new features, and we thought it would be fun to have Steve Lombardi, a Program Manager for Live Maps, take us on a little tour.  In this first …

Windows Live Hotmail “CAPTCHA” security compromised; bot attacks in 6 seconds or less, according to security blog

Via Ars Technica

The Websense Security Labs blog is reporting that a new bot threat is capable of defeating the Windows Live Hotmail CAPTCHA security measure, and can break that code in less than 6 seconds, create new accounts, and …

New Live Search News site spotted, testing Rome again?

This evening, for a little while, the Live Search News Site looked completely different from what we are used to. This is what we normally see:

LiveSearchRegular

We spotted it like this earlier:

 LiveSearchNews

Notice how it shows articles now instead …