Raxco Software, makers of PerfectDisk disk defragmentation software, today released PerfectSpeed, a new PC optimization suite that offers “a certified disk defragmenter, registry cleaner, duplicate file remover and advanced privacy protection”. According to the press release, Raxco …
Happy 10th Anniversary Windows Live Messenger
Just up on YouTube (where else?) is a fun little video in celebration of Windows Live (formerly MSN) Messenger’s 10th Anniversary.
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The Inside Windows Live Messenger blog has more on the anniversary celebration (and a post from last …
Oh snap. MSN to discontinue Soapbox (we’re screwed)
Here’s one from the “saw this coming from a mile away” department. After “scaling back” the user uploaded video service last month, today an email confirmed that the other shoe has dropped, and that MSN Soapbox will be closing. …
Another open source announcement: Microsoft releases Live@edu plug in for Moodle
Microsoft got some open source press yesterday when it submitted some 20,000 lines of device driver code to Linux, and today Microsoft is releasing a plug in for the open source classroom content management system Moodle.
Moodle, based …
Office Live Workspace updated for Mac users
The Office Live Workspace team blog just announced two exciting news for Mac users using Microsoft Office and Office Live Workspace. Firstly, Microsoft Document Connection for Mac was just released as part of Office 2008 for Mac SP2 to access …
How large is your Hotmail storage size exactly?
As part of the new Wave 3 update, Windows Live Hotmail was announced back in 2008 to have “ever increasing storage” – according to the mailbox size at the end of each month. Some call it “unlimited storage”, but Microsoft …
Right on schedule, news of an “imminent” MSFT-YHOO search deal
We haven’t been commenting much on the buzz surrounding Bing’s first month numbers, partly because we’ve grown a little tired of “woohoo a .4% increase” posts, partly because we’ve been stuck in the real world a bit this summer, …
Popfly Is Shutting Down On August 24
In a post on the Popfly Team Blog the team just announced that Popfly, which never got out of beta, will be discontinued on August 24. 
…We want to thank everyone who registered for and used Popfly. We’ve been
BingTweets
We already told you about a bit of Twitter in Bing, but the team took it a step further. They’ve partnered up with with Federated Media and Twitter to create BingTweets.
BingTweets fuses Bing search results with real …
More WPC09 News: Windows Marketplace For Mobile And Azure Pricing/Release Date
Whilst we are playing with the Office 2010 Technical Preview, there is more news coming out of/to be announced at the Worldwide Partner Conference.
Windows Mobile Marketplace
The following will be announced regarding Windows Mobile Marketplace today:
1. …
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