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Take the Microsoft Tour continues

This week Steve Clayton showed us a few places on Microsoft Campus. Pictures, videos, photosynth’s, all to satisfy your curiosity of what goes on inside those buildings at Redmond headquarters:

A tour of the Microsoft Home
A tour

Windows Experts Community: the Green Button evolved

TGBTwo years ago, Microsoft acquired TheGreenButton.com, at that time an independent site focused on Windows Media Center, with an active set of forums and users.  The Green Button, according to TheWayback Machine, was most active in 2005, but still …

Microsoft announces OAuth 2.0 support for Messenger Connect

oauthAt the Internet Identity Workshop today in Mountain View, Microsoft has announced that it will support OAuth 2.0 in the next version of Messenger Connect, according to a blog post by Dare Obasanjo on the Windows Live for Developers blog

Take the Microsoft Tour

Curious about what the Microsoft Offices/buildings at Redmond look like on the inside? I sure am!  So is Steve Clayton (Msft), and guess what? He is going to share it for the world to see:

There are some stunning buildings

New Zune Support pages

A bit of news coming out of the Zune Insider podcast this week: Zune Support pages have been revamped, with a new landing page, easily navigated support categories (Zune software, Zune on Windows Phone 7, Zune on Xbox Live, etc.), …

Windows 8 cloud roaming options via Windows Live revealed

Not long ago we just posted that Windows 8 will be having cloud-syncing capabilities, and today thanks to a user on MyDigitalLife Forums, who managed to get themselves a copy of the latest Windows 8 M3 Build 7955 …

Twitter might make a come back to Windows Live?

Back in June 2010, Microsoft discontinued support for the Twitter connected service in Windows Live due to policy changes made on Twitter’s end, and was unable to reach an agreement with Twitter since then to make it available again. However, …

Windows Live Profile notes are no more! [Update: and neither are private messages]

At the bottom of your profile page, there was an opportunity to leave a note. WAS, yes, the feature is no more, as cleverly noticed by Winston.

notes

  • Effective April 21, 2011 the ‘Notes’ option on a user’s (Live

Yahoo and Microsoft: is the honeymoon over?

Yahoo_Logo_3This week a couple of news items seem to suggest that Microsoft and Yahoo, while still closely linked via their Search agreement, are beginning to air their differences.  As both partners and competitors, this is probably to be expected, but …

Hotmail Wave 5 to get HTML5 offline storage support – replacing Windows Live Mail?

Windows Live HotmailWe know that Microsoft had been working on a HTML5 version of Bing, which was released to a lucky few recently. But Microsoft is slated to go “all in” with HTML5, with Mary Jo Foley received a tip today …