2009

MSN Calendar To Windows Live Calendar Migration Starting Soon

WLCalendarL We read before that this would happen starting March already, but the following announcement appeared on windowslivewire:

It’s almost moving time! We’ve been busy getting Windows Live Calendar ready for when we move all MSN Calendar customers over to

Cool Silverlight Uses – CMA And Photobucket

Some pretty cool Microsoft Silverlight uses emerged this week. The CMA came with a game called “Be This Close” and Photobucket released a Visual Search Tool that makes use of Silverlight and the Messenger Web Bar.

CMA, Be This

Microsoft Security Essentials (Morro) public beta announced

MSE Microsoft has taken the wraps off of its successor to the soon to be discontinued Windows Live OneCare, announcing today that Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE), a free to download “superset” of Windows Defender will become available on June 23.  …

Morro To Be Named Microsoft Security Essentials?

Where we were wondering about what the release name of “Morro” will be before, it is now clear that “Morro” will be named Microsoft Security Essentials. New screenshots of a pre-beta build revealed this. So unless the people …

Soapbox To Become A Forum For Bloggers And Citizen Journalists?

In the coming months, Microsoft plans to significantly scale back Soapbox, the user generated video site hosted on MSN Video. In an interview on Tuesday, Microsoft Vice President Erik Jorgensen said Soapbox is one of the areas that Microsoft …

Curious What “Morro” Will Look Like?

Are you curious what “Morro” will look like? Neowin received some screenshots from an anonymous tipster. Note that these are screenshots of an already outdated version, according to Paul Thurrott. So yea, it will give you some indication but …

Messenger 10 Years – Share Your Favorite Personal Windows Live Messenger Story With The World!

WLMessenger_5F00_0173725A[1] It has been almost 10 years since Messenger was launched. Windows Live Messenger was still called MSN Messenger back then on July 22nd 1999. Since then Windows Live Messenger has grown quite a bit. It now has more than 330 …

Zune Services And Xbox Live Maintenance On June 16

On June 16 the Zune Services will be down for maintenance. So no Zune Social, Zune.net forums or Zune Marketplace at that time. At the same time Xbox Live will be off for maintenance too. This means that Xbox …

SMS For Windows Live

MobileTextIf you live in the US or the UK then you can SMS to see and update your information on Windows Live. No need for a mobile browser or data plan! The SMS feature was announced in November already but …

Bing shows early promise (but is blocked, again, in China)

It hasn’t even been two weeks since Bing was launched, but a number of services are reporting numbers that seem to show an uptick in interest in the rebranded search product from Microsoft.

Compete.com, in a blog post today, …