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Reminder: Migration From MSN Calendar To Windows Live Calendar – Save Attachments Before March 1

We already mentioned in January that MSN Calendar users will be moved to the Windows Live Calendar service. This migration of existing MSN Calendar users to the Windows Live Calendar service will start in March. Windows Live Calendar does …

Microsoft Equipt to be discontinued after April 30, 2009

Microsoft is going to discontinue their Software and Services subscription package Equipt. Equipt, which includes Office Home and Student 2007, OneCare, Office Live Workspaces and Windows Live Essentials, got launched July last year.

To help address the growing

Deep Zoom Composer – February 2009 Preview Released

Another update to the Deep Zoom Composer has just been released. This release only contains fixes to issues that were reported to the team. More information on these fixes can be found on the Expression Blend and Design team

Reminder: MSN Groups closing on Monday, February 23

MSNgroupsIn October we reported that MSN Groups would be closed. The original plan was to close MSN Groups on February 21, but that has been extended to February 23. The team just posted a reminder that you’ll need to …

My Phone: Failure to sign in the application on the phone issue addressed

MyPhone There have been reports of My Phone users not being able to successfully sign in on the phone, even when they received a confirmation that their account was activated. The My Phone team has addressed this issue and posted the

QnA moves from Live Search to MSN

In an attempt to better align products and sites focused on content and community, QnA moved from Live Search to MSN. Leader of the MSN QnA team will be Kristy:

Kristy

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Hello! I’m Kristy and I’m excited to be

Photosynth Update: New Features & Improvements

The Photosynth experience has been improved. New features an improvements launched and even more are in the works. The team promises more Photosynth goodness in the coming weeks. We’ll be watching!

The features/improvements already launched are:

– Point Clouds

Changing your Windows Live ID – Automatic update Messenger contact list broken

Jonathan Kay is warning users not to change Windows Live ID right now. Reason: this feature has become unreliable and in general, your Messenger contact list will never be updated.

One feature you may not even be aware exists is

Help improve Live Mesh!

The Live Mesh Team is already gathering feedback on Live Mesh forums, Live Mesh Blog and Microsoft Connect, but there are more ways to collect feedback. In their constant search for feedback, the Live Mesh Team is now …

Live Maps Belgium launched…in French and Flemish!

After Live Search Maps for The Netherlands launched last month, their southern neighbor Belgium is now following with the release of their local Live Maps. And this is a special release at that. As you may know, in Belgium …