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Ben Romano, a Tech writer for the Seattle Times, has an interesting tidbit in Tech Tracks today , that MSN and Windows Live product teams will not be moving from their home in what's known as Red West, a Microsoft satellite campus a few miles northwest of the main Microsoft campus in Redmond. Red...
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Today I saw a somewhat interestingly timed post about MSN's profitiability, or lack of. The analysis is based on the Online Services Business (OSB), which is split out as one of the reportable segments in Microsoft's annual and quarterly company statements. From the just published 2007 accounts...
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As of September 27, 2004 , all new Windows Live Hotmail accounts, including Office Live and Custom Domains don't have HTTP [WebDAV] support through Outlook and Outlook Express. In fact, for those users who haven't upgraded to Windows Vista, the new version of Outlook Express [Windows Mail] doesn't...
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We can't disclose a lot of what we saw [or even if we saw anything at all] at the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Global Summit [isn't that a typical Microsoft name?]. However, consistently we heard that Microsoft at all levels are committed to win. Both Steven [not Steve] Sinofsky and Chris Jones...
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We haven't heard much chatter on this but Mary-Jo Foley is reporting that Blake Irving is to resign . Whether he was ousted or is leaving for personal reasons is unknown, and unsurprisingly there is no comment from Microsoft yet. So what would this mean for the end user? Well Blake Irving has no doubt...
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As if by magic Windows Live Hotspot Locator has become MSN Wifi Hotspots . My original thoughts on the branding switch still apply; it might be frustrating for those who want to see Windows Live become a "super-brand" like Google but there is a lot of logic behind the move to MSN. I just wish that someone...
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From today Windows Live Shopping beta will be taken offline, with users being sent to MSN Shopping, available at shopping.msn.com . This appears to be part of the ongoing self-correcting process taking place in on Windows Live, occurring as a result of various MSN products being moved over to the new...
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Yet more juggling between MSN and Windows Live brands. The Windows Live Wifi Suite, including the Hotspot Locator, are soon moving over to MSN. Unlike the Windows Live Hotmail rebrand , the timing is much better, with the Wifi Suite not yet available as a public download . Whilte the change from Windows...
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Still no sign of Ray Ozzie , but Online Services Group Senior Vice President Steve Berkowitz has been popping up all over the place lately, and the bottom line seems to be a return to supporting MSN at the expense of Windows Live innovation. In a report in Saturday's (Dec 9 2006) New York Times , Berkowitz...
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Microsoft released earnings yesterday in a rise of 11 percent in revenue and operating income. What's interesting, and both Todd Bishop and Mary Jo Foley point out, is that buried in the 10Q is the fact that online services profit fell because of a 40% increase in headcount, as well as data-center...