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Queensland University of Technology selects Live@edu for 40,000 students

After a year of testing between offerings from Microsoft and Google, Australia’s Queensland University of Technology (QUT), has selected Microsoft’s Live@edu, according to a story in Australian IT.

Australia has become quite a battleground for hosted email services.  …

From Windows Live to Live Search to MSN: QnA Updated

We reported almost a month ago that QnA is moving from Live Search to MSN. Today the QnA team officially announced the latest updates to the QnA website, including a new look for QnA with the standardised MSN headers. …

Add Windows Live Calendar badge to your blog or website

A nice post over on the Hotmail blog has some simple instructions on how to add a Windows Live Calendar “badge” to your blog or website, using an iframe. 

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(Not sure why our badge doesn’t show the month calendar, …

Live Framework SDK And Tools Updated

The Live Framework Team announced the April CTP update of the Live Framework SDK and Tools.

This update includes:

  • Support for side-by-side installation of the www.mesh.com local client and the developer.mesh-ctp.com local client. This means that you can use the

POP3 Technology Has Now Rolled Out To Hotmail Customers Worldwide

Hotmail POP3 access on the way? No, it’s here! POP3 technology has now rolled out to Hotmail customers WORLDWIDE!

What is POP3? It is a protocol that allows retrieval of your emails in almost any email program that you’ve …

Microsoft adCenter Analytics (was Gatineau) to shut down

According to an email to beta testers, and  a blog post and a post on the adCenter website, adCenter Analytics will shut down on Dec 31, 2009, and no new beta participants are being accepted as of today.  From …

Hotmail is down (Update: some access available)

Opened Twitter today to a rash of “Hotmail is Down” tweets, and sure enough, the Hotmail server is “too busy” as of 9:14 am pdt:

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Online mail application server outages have been in the news recently, with a couple

Windows Marketplace For Mobile Developer Strategy Announced!

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Steve Ballmer announced Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Not much said back then, but now we have some more information. Microsoft announced the developer strategy for the next generation of Windows® Phones (Windows …

PhotoSynth Launches For IPhone

I’m sure by now we all know what Photosynth is. Some of you have already played around with it too, I know we did! CNN News did too, creating a synth of Obama’s Inauguration from pictures the public emailed …

Closing Hotmail brings you to www.live.com

Just saw someone twitter about this, and seems to be true, although not sure how long this has been going on: when you sign out of Hotmail, instead of being taken to MSN.com, you are now taken to www.live.com