On the eve of Windows Live Messenger’s (formerly MSN Messenger) 10th anniversary, Windows Live Team has released a free messenger gift pack to celebrate the 10th birthday of the world’s largest IM network. The free gift pack includes new display pictures, emotions, winks, backgrounds and more.
Good news for all the Hotmail users! No need to sign in to multiple services to check all your messages anymore! Hotmail has announced an extremely useful feature of accessing all other accounts from a single Windows Live Hotmail account.
The feature was launched earlier this year to the users in UK, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Japan, and Germany.
As expected, Microsoft has added 20 new Web Activities for integration with your network on Windows Live Home. This has taken the total number of Web Activities to 30.
Microsoft has started rolling out the new Web Slice feature for Windows Live Home (http://home.live.com) worldwide. Last week, LiveSide reported on this upcoming new feature of Windows Live Home which shows the top three(by default) most recent happenings from your “What’s new with your network”.
Have you ever wished to have all your events and birthday reminders from your facebook calendar to your calendar in Windows Live? Thanks to fbCal with the help of which you can export your events and birthday reminders in facebook to your calendar in Outlook, Google Calendar, Apple iCal and of course Windows Live.
The Mactopia team at Microsoft that creates Office for Mac and other software's for Macintosh platform has just released a minor update to Messenger for Mac. The latest version of Messenger for Mac is 7.0.2.
Microsoft’s open source platform - Codeplex has released two very useful plugins (LiveUpload to Facebook & Live
Our Hotmail accounts have finally been shifted over to Wave 3 now. We aren’t very fond of the very white look so far. Hopefully, it’ll become more meaningful, and less white over time. What are your opinions on the new Hotmail? Any problems that you are encountering ? Share with us!
Around a week ago, our friends at LiveSide had posted about the beginning of the rollout of Hotmail wave 3. And as of now, most of us are still waiting. Word is, that the rollout has experienced some troubles as well as those who are got their Hotmail account updated are facing issues with seeing their folders. To which the Official Windows Live Hotmail blog responded:
Most of us have read by now that Microsoft is going to replace some of the most essential applications in Windows by their Windows Live alternatives. I, for one, do not welcome this change at all. Can you imagine an operating system, which after install you can’t view your images with? Or one, in which there is no email application? Do we really want to rely on an operating system that is so barebones that it requires us to first download a 100 + Mb setup to achieve all these functionalities?
