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• Windows Live Hotmail Technical Support Blog: Responding to Customer Feedback – Disabling DAV

  We notified you about the changes Microsoft planned for accessing Hotmail with Outlook Express , the disabling of the DAV protocol. The transition deadline has now been postponed : Recently, many customers received notification regarding Microsoft’s plan... Posted May 06 2008, 03:07 PM by Sunshine with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Corporate Strategy, Windows Live Hotmail

• 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... Posted Apr 18 2008, 06:21 PM by Sunshine with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Office Live, OneCare, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Office Live Workspaces, Beta, Windows Live Mail

• 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 DAV ... Posted Apr 18 2008, 02:05 PM by Sunshine with | with no comments Filed under: Microsoft, Corporate Strategy, Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Mail

• Executive leaves Microsoft for ad company

  Microsoft executive Joanne Bradford (Corporate Vice President, chief Media Officer, MSN), is leaving Microsoft to join Spot Runner Inc. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Spot Runner develops technology solutions that revolutionize the way advertising is created... Posted Mar 13 2008, 09:29 PM by Sunshine with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Corporate Strategy, MSN

• Earth? No, the Sky is the limit?!

  We can already look at Earth with Virtual Earth, but what about the Sky? Microsoft doesn't have anything for that yet. Yes, that's right, YET! This might change on February 27th at the TED Conference in Monterey California: Microsoft To Announce... Posted Feb 20 2008, 06:11 PM by Sunshine with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, PhotoSynth, Windows, TED2008, MS Research, WorldWide Telescope

• Microsoft DreamSpark - Free software development tools for students

  On Live in Europe , Brian Groth reported students can get free software development tools : Over on Channel 8, the video blog for students, Bill Gates just announced free software for students in a program called DreamSpark .   DreamSpark is simple... Posted Feb 19 2008, 02:15 PM by Sunshine with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Microsoft, Featured, Developers, Students

• Microsoft, Yahoo!, the merger and Google - Online Video

  First let's take a look at some comScore statistics on this one: Google Video Sites: Google Video YouTube Yahoo! Video Sites: Yahoo! Video Yahoo! Live Microsoft Video Site(s): MSN Video (includes Soapbox) Note: YouTube.com accounted for more than... Posted Feb 18 2008, 05:48 PM by Sunshine with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Video, MSFT-YHOO

• Microsoft, Yahoo!, the merger and Google - Instant Messaging

  Time to take a closer look at IM. Here we can see that worldwide MSN-Windows Live Messenger is taking a big lead, whereas Yahoo! Messenger is taking the lead in the U.S. Google is way behind. Some features compared: Instant Messaging Clients MSN-Windows... Posted Feb 14 2008, 04:42 PM by Sunshine with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Messenger, Google, Yahoo, MSFT-YHOO

• Microsoft, Yahoo!, the merger and Google - Mail

  Last time we took a look at Search, let us take a look at Mail now. Looking at the above, the rankings are: 1. Yahoo! - Yahoo! Mail 2. Microsoft - Windows Live Hotmail 3. Google - Gmail In this area, what would a Microsoft/Yahoo! merger mean? Google is... Posted Feb 10 2008, 06:43 PM by Sunshine with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Mail, MSFT-YHOO

• Microsoft, Yahoo!, the merger and Google - Search

  Lots of talk about the Microsoft proposal to Yahoo. Google has made an offer to Yahoo! now too. Looks like the battle over Yahoo! and it's services has begun. Let us take a look at Search. Search - December 2007 Microsoft Yahoo Google Searches million... Posted Feb 07 2008, 02:05 PM by Sunshine with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Search, Google, Yahoo, MSFT-YHOO

• Some Background reading on Microsoft + Yahoo!

  Everyone seems to have an opinion about Microsoft's blockbuster announcement (including me), but sometimes it's difficult to sort through all the opinion to get at the facts. Here's a list of factual information, so far: Microsoft's Press... Posted Feb 05 2008, 07:02 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with no comments Filed under: Microsoft, Corporate Strategy, Yahoo, MSFT-YHOO

• Take our poll on Microsoft + Yahoo!

  While we catch up on our reading about the latest acquisition news, we put up a little poll for you to let us know what you think about the announcement that Microsoft has made a 44.6 Billion dollar offer to buy Yahoo! Take a minute and take our poll... Posted Feb 02 2008, 07:23 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Corporate Strategy, Yahoo, Featured, takeapoll, MSFT-YHOO

• Ask.com Sponsored Listings now integrated into Microsoft adManager beta

  Office Live is increasing the reach of small businesses everywhere with the addition of Ask Sponsored Listings , part of the IAC Advertising Network . This is a huge deal for Office Live, which has had a bumpy past, and adManager , which is still in beta... Posted Jul 17 2007, 07:34 PM by Matthew with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Corporate Strategy, AdCenter, Windows Live Search, Advertising, Google, Live Search, ComScore

• Popfly: more cool stuff from Microsoft (??)

  More buzz around the net about another pretty cool looking Web 2.0 product - and like Silverlight, yes it's from Microsoft. Currently in an invitation only beta (and yes we're hoping to get in, you can sign up for the waiting list here ) Popfly creates... Posted May 21 2007, 05:47 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Developer, Popfly

• Microsoft to acquire digital ad agency aQuantive

  Microsoft just announced they are to buy aQuantive, gaining "interactive agency Avenue A | Razorfish, digital marketing technology provider Atlas, as well as DRIVEpm, a performance media company. " The price is a hefty $6 billion, the largest acquisition... Posted May 18 2007, 03:23 PM by Chris with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Corporate Strategy, AdCenter, Advertising