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New i’m Initiative campaign to begin: 30 days of non-stop email and IM

Microsoft has been having some good success with the (US only) i’m Initiative , having raised $1.5 million for charities, and at the same time pushing new downloads of Windows Live Messenger (and more recently, Hotmail sign-ups): New customer acquisition : More than 20 million downloads of Windows Live...

Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Kip Kniskern on 06-24-2008
Windows Live Messenger Web Controls - Part 2

Hopefully you will have read and followed the code from the first part of this article. The first part covered most of base functionality including how to sign in, get the users details and get their contact list. What is left is how to actually carry out a conversation with a contact. If you remember...

Posted to LiveSide - Developer Blog (Weblog) by Hackersoft on 03-14-2008
Windows Live Messenger Web Controls - Part 1

The Windows Live team have been busy over the past few months and recently launched the Windows Live Messenger APIs. This is basically split over three parts, the IM Control , the Windows Live Presence API and the Windows Live Messenger Library . What all this allows you to do is to create a Windows...

Posted to LiveSide - Developer Blog (Weblog) by Hackersoft on 03-13-2008
Yahoo launches Messenger for Vista [Updated]

Last night Yahoo launched a new beta, its WPF powered IM client - Yahoo Messenger for Vista . A demo was shown at CES in January 2007, however performance was noted to be poor and as a result there has been a 12 month delay in getting the first beta out. When you also consider that certain features such...

Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Chris on 12-06-2007
An easy way to add friends - Invite2Messenger

Today, Microsoft Netherlands released Invite2Messenger which allows new Windows Live Messenger users to send out invitations to their contacts from Hotmail, Outlook, Outlook Express, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail. Existing Messenger users can also use the website if they have a lot of contacts which aren’t yet...

Posted to LiveSide - Developer Blog (Weblog) by ChrisW on 11-27-2007
Microsoft sends out Windows Live Messenger 9.0 beta invites

No sooner has the Windows Live Wave 2 suite been released than the first Wave 3 beta begins - Windows Live Messenger v9. Unlike the betas that have just finished, the Messenger v9 beta is being run from Microsoft Connect as a private beta, meaning that, for the moment at least, unless you receive an...

Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Chris on 11-20-2007
Microsoft drops Verizon for its Windows Live Messenger VOIP services

Verizon Web Calling has powered the VOIP integration in Windows Live Messenger since the public beta of v8 early last year , though the service is at best is described as basic. However last week users of Web Calling received an email from Verizon customer services, informing them that the joint service...

Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Chris on 11-09-2007
Windows Live Messenger IM Control launched

Back in September at MIX UK we got a first look at a Messenger presence feature. Today marks the release of this handy little addition to the Messenger family. But what does Windows Live Messenger IM Control actually do? Easiest way to find out is to take a look at the team blog post : The Windows Live...

Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Gregor on 11-07-2007
Final Windows Live Wave 2 applications available for download

Looks like nothing can stay quiet for long - a new installer featuring the final Windows Live Wave 2 programs is available for download thanks to Microsoft's early preparations. While not much has changed in the applications themselves since the last beta releases, its just nice to be running the...

Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Chris on 11-06-2007
Messenger 9, GTalk integration, Messenger API, new client for Mac OS X - news unveiled at Georgia Tech presentation (whew)

In a presentation to the Georgia Institute of Technology's IEEE Student Branch yesterday, Microsoft employee and Georgia Tech (edit: graduate former student - Jenks went to work for MS before graduating) Andrew Jenks had some surprises in store. "It wasn't originally planned to be announced...

Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Kip Kniskern on 10-31-2007

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