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Groucho Marx famously said… "I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member." Well, there's an exception to every rule. I found such an exception in the Windows Clubhouse. The Clubhouse is a community where you can connect
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I just saw that the new Microsoft Windows Mobile "My Phone" site (or is it myPhone? ;) went live… "Coming soon... Microsoft My Phone syncs information between your mobile phone and the web, enabling you to: Back up and restore your phone's
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I saw a tweet about the post today from microsoftsubnet on the Seven things to love, hate about Windows 7 by Tom Henderson and Brendan Allen in Network World (01/15/09, See http://tinyurl.com/9ropqp ). First off, hate is much too strong a word IMO.
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It's that time of year again when fake online greeting cards increase in the daily Outlook mailbox and in web based mail as well). A common give away? The sender is often listed only by first name – no last name – and includes links to various e-card
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This weekend I took some time late last night after everyone went to bed and I had finished clearing up most of my mail backlog (apologies to those of you who rec'd a mail from me over the weekend with some new request or a belated reply). As noted,
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Thanks to Bethany for her question sent via email … "I just installed the Live Toolbar beta and now I can't find Form Fill. Do you know where I can find it?" Well, short answer is you can't: the Form Fill and Windows Live Favorites add-ins
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Well, the news has hit publicly, so I can now talk about the coming of help at retail in our new Microsoft Gurus. No, not that Guru . I just twittered about the new technology help coming to a major computer store near you. The "Microsoft
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New from Live Search: Search And Give ... Whether it's your local school or an effort to find a cure, Search and Give will donate a penny each time you use this page to search the Web. How does it work? Sign in to select a charity or school (this is easy)
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In the article "The Future of Customer Service" on msnbc.com (from - Entrepreneur.com), writer Sarah Pierce looks at the impact of the Internet and now-ubiquitous mobile technology on consumer expectations of customer service. We've come a long way in
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And I thought that it was a chore to digitize our papers at home... that's nothing as compared to the effort to scan 25 million pages... Raissa Kasolowsky from Reuters reports here on one project associated with the Live Search Books effort . The article
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Bloggers and the press are out in force at CES in Las Vegas, tonite covering Bill Gates' keynote at CES 2008 . You can find several entries listed here . Check out video coverage at Microsoft's CES site and on Microsoft PressPass . [More on the keynote
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Filed under: Windows Vista, Zune, Xbox 360, Windows Live, video, TV, articles, news, Windows Mobile, CES, blogs
I enjoy Angus Logan's blog , in particular, a recent post on what to do when you're drowning in email . But his new post calls out a great function on how to use Live Search to tell the time in <random city you have no idea where> . "I always find
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This is too much... Duncan Riley on TechCrunch reports that Microsoft marketing is using YouTube To promote Vista & Live, and left page comments open . "The content itself isn’t all that exciting, but they do demonstrate various positive aspects of
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Of interest: Benjamin J. Romano posts on the Seattle Times blog that Microsoft Photosynth was used to process images from the latest Endeavour mission . "A few days before the shuttle launched, Microsoft posted several sets of photographs of the shuttle
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As noted in several places (by now ;) an update to Windows Live Folders was announced, renamed Windows Live Skydrive . Now an open beta is available to all in the States, UK, and India. (Maybe Canada, too?) Per the Skydrive team , this is a feature update,
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