February, 2009

Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant 6.5 beta for Windows 7

Back in May 2006, we posted an article telling you about what Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant was. Up until now this software only offered the ability to save multiple credentials (Windows Live IDs) on their machine as an Internet …

Live.com Images: pager coming soon?

Today’s little flurry over the Live.com snow leopard isn’t a big controversy, but it does underscore the fact that people are catching on to Live.com images as something cool.  Here in the US, we’ve had them since the Olympics, and …

Microsoft Equipt to be discontinued after April 30, 2009

Microsoft is going to discontinue their Software and Services subscription package Equipt. Equipt, which includes Office Home and Student 2007, OneCare, Office Live Workspaces and Windows Live Essentials, got launched July last year.

To help address the growing

Deep Zoom Composer – February 2009 Preview Released

Another update to the Deep Zoom Composer has just been released. This release only contains fixes to issues that were reported to the team. More information on these fixes can be found on the Expression Blend and Design team

Live Search cashback/eBay problems continue

snafu Live Search cashback apparently continues to be beset with problems, at least for a subset of customers who used the service over the holidays to purchase items on eBay.  We first reported problems some customers were having on February 4th, …

Snow Leopard: Twitterverse abuzz with latest Live Search image

To be honest, when I saw the latest Live Search home page image this morning, my only thought was “what a beautiful animal”.

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Well apparently Snow Leopard means a little something to more than just the Girl Scouts of Kyrgyzstan

Reminder: MSN Groups closing on Monday, February 23

MSNgroupsIn October we reported that MSN Groups would be closed. The original plan was to close MSN Groups on February 21, but that has been extended to February 23. The team just posted a reminder that you’ll need to …

My Phone: Failure to sign in the application on the phone issue addressed

MyPhone There have been reports of My Phone users not being able to successfully sign in on the phone, even when they received a confirmation that their account was activated. The My Phone team has addressed this issue and posted the

QnA moves from Live Search to MSN

In an attempt to better align products and sites focused on content and community, QnA moved from Live Search to MSN. Leader of the MSN QnA team will be Kristy:

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Hello! I’m Kristy and I’m excited to be

Live Search gains share (of French sites, to 2.29%) Woohoo!

Continuing our look at non US-Centric numbers, a new report from French internet audience measurement company AT Internet caught our eye:

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These numbers,  a cross section of 96,965 reporting websites, all “French speaking”, show for one thing just how dominant …