Family Safety Gets Update - Contact Controls

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ScottIsAFool — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:00:59 GMT

@Quickboy: All restrictions can be removed with a few clicks of the mouse. Of course the bribary to make that happen... Different story ;)

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jackiboi — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:43:10 GMT

oooh now i can have control over my little brother muahaha

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quikboy — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:14:38 GMT

Yeah. That's cool.

But I'm quite sure that not everybody would view it this way. To some, it's like another case of Microsoft trying to block access to something. Restrict them. This probably won't be so hot with pre-teens. And suppose the child gets older. Would the the account still be kept that way forever. With only the parents' consent. Because sometimes parents won't. Plus getting a whole new account would mean updating your friend's on this, and losing data associated with your old account. So does Microsoft have something in plan for that?

I'm not trying to be negative, but this probably won't hit so well on everyone. Most people are likely to complain about this.

re: Family Safety Gets Update - Contact Controls

zackwhittakerlive — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:49:06 GMT

Hey, this has been around for a while actually - but it's great to see that people are promoting this :)

Admittidly, left Scott a message earlier saying that it's been out for months... well technically not quite true, my bad. The idea was thought about around a year ago, since 8.5 it's been made possible - framework was in place, but after the recent changes in the Live products, it's been rolled out and fully implemented.

Microsoft are a big player in family/web safety - from the people I've done work with, the general consensus is that, "we helped create the Internet, it's only fair that we try and saften it for the kids" which is entirely true. Of all the giants out there - Microsoft are doing their part more than anyone, with more initiatives in web safety, global citizenship and governmental links to try and collaborate and cooperate in such matters.

Great post Scott :-)

re: Family Safety Gets Update - Contact Controls

ScottIsAFool — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:03:59 GMT

The Family Safety page itself specifies the current version needed to be 8.5, which is why I specified what they meant by current version ;)

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Khristopher — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:59:17 GMT

the "current" version is 8.1. Usually when someone refers to the current version of software, it's the latest stable release, not a beta.

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CalumJR — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:21:38 GMT

This is very good to see!! And what is even better to see is that Microsoft are not copying anyone else, they7 have thought for themselves here!! :) :p