We’ve been seeing lots of complaints on Twitter and elsewhere about Hotmail not working in Google’s new browser, Chrome. So today, rather than waiting for Hotmail to address the problem, Google patched Chrome to work with Hotmail, by adding …
Managing your contacts with Windows Live People – Update being rolled out!
Managing your contacts is going to be easier as a new update is rolling out:
…During the past year, we set out to build a few new things:
- A unified contact list for all Windows Live users across all
Webcam issues with Messenger stir comments
Last week Windows Live Wire, the Windows Live team blog posted an acknowledgement that “a small number of you are experiencing audio and video problems with your webcam after installing the latest version of Windows Live Messenger”. According to the …
Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate Now Available
Internet Explorer 8 has moved from beta to Release Candidate and is publically available for download today. Internet Explorer 8 RC1 is available in 25 languages for Windows Vista, XP, and Server only! Windows 7 users will get an updated …
Live Mesh: Mac Software Hotfix (0.9.3712.831)
We missed out on this one with all the other news (and playing about in Windows 7):
…To all Live Mesh customers who have experienced crashes with the 0.9.3712.831 version of the Live Mesh for Mac software: A new
Sneak peek of the new Windows Live FrameIt
Last week we reported the announcement that Windows Live FrameIt will soon to be updated with a Wave 3 theme, to have integration with Live Mesh, and soon to have a client and SDK released. Today we got the chance …
Office Live to join Windows Live
Yesterday Mary Jo Foley reported that Office Live will be joining Windows Live in Wave 4, at least in terms of how the products are presented to consumers, and today a post on the OfficeLiveWorkSpaceCommunity blog further confirms it. Office …
Windows Live Translator adds Polish
Windows Live Translator gained yet another language, Polish this time. This brings the total amount of languages to 14, namely; Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
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Some notes on the Microsoft layoffs
Big news out of Redmond today as the company announced elimination of some 5,000 positions in the next 18 months, some 1,400 of which are expected to come today. In addition, cuts are also coming to contractors, both in non-renewal …
Map Data Release – January, 2009
Chris Pendleton, who will be speaking at EUCI GIS 2.0 Conference, lets us know there is no expansion of map data this month. That doesn’t mean nothing happened.
For North America, Europe and Asia the road data has …
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