2010

A bit more on Exchange ActiveSync

Wow, looks like everyone’s having fun trying to get Exchange ActiveSync to work, even though it’s not working for all of you.  Reading through the comments it looks like there are issues with Android, for one, and others are …

Welcome “Windows Live for Developers”

Angus Logan has his first post up on a new Windows Team blog, “Windows Live for Developers”.  Angus is the Senior Technical Product Manager for Messenger Connect (and before that, the same title for Windows Live Platform), which …

Exchange ActiveSync, and more on Hotmail rollout

hotmail-logoHotmail Wave 4 has begun its worldwide rollout, right on schedule.  However this rollout is being accomplished by server cluster, and not by region or individual accounts, as Mike Shackwitz explains on this morning’s Inside Windows Live blog post:…

Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 begins worldwide roll-out

Windows Live HotmailAccording to a blog post at the official Brazilian Windows blog, Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 starts rolling out today to the 47 million Hotmail users worldwide. (Thanks for the tip Anderson C.!) Here’s what the translated version of …

Kinect and Windows Live Messenger: soon to be BFF?

At E3, Microsoft took the lid off the Natal project today, with a new name, “Kinect”, and some details about what to expect in the coming months.  We won’t go into all the details on the new Xbox and Kinect …

Live Sync: life after Live Mesh

live mesh logoThe thing is, we were as invested in Live Mesh as anybody, probably more so.  We’ve been avid followers since back when it was only us and the hamsters and the gerbils.  In December of 2007 we told you to …

Windows Phone 7 to add Flash 10.1 support?

While Microsoft had denied the fact that the v1 release of their new Windows Phone 7 operating system will support Adobe Flash, it seems like people might be up for a great surprise. Posted on an Adobe Labs website for

How to Install Bing Maps App SDK with Visual Studio 2010

For those who tried installing the Bing Maps App SDK (http://connect.microsoft.com/bingmapapps) you will likely come upon the following error when running the .msi.

Even though I had Visual Studio 2010 (Premium) installed and the latest Silverlight 4.0 runtime installed, …

Windows Live Wave 4: Live Writer, A [Critical] Review

There has been much talk, and many screenshots of what to expect from the Wave 4 edition of Live Writer, and also what we’ve actually got, so for regular readers, none of this should come as a shock, although …

Tagline to be removed from Hotmail Messages

image You know those lines of text that gets added when you send messages from Hotmail? They are called taglines.

Brian Hall writes:

When Hotmail first started in the mid-90s, taglines helped people to discover our then revolutionary new