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Free your buddy

I like this new viral thingy that someone in the MSN team has released. it's called Free your buddy . There's a video up on YouTube too showing how badly he dances. My only gripe is the site seems to use Flash, not (fabulous) Silverlight - although I

Changing your password in MSN messenger

Well several months after I last blogged about this, I still get the same questions about how to change your password in MSN Massenger (or messenger, or mesenger if you prefer). Here's how you do it... Go to Account help central : then select the change

OCS 2007 Learning Portal

I've noticed that Microsoft learning have published their OCS learning portal with resources for OCS, books and sessions. I'm not too impressed with the name "clinic" though, but at the moment I can't think of another name that would suit better. Thomas

Finally... OCS beta goes public...

Ok so I'm over here in the US for an IT Evangelism summit and so I missed the announcement that everyone has been waiting for on Office Communications Server 2007. I was having a coffee with Kevin this morning in the cafe in building 30 in Redmond when

I'm joining a cause

More and more of my messenger contacts are displaying a little logo next to their name. the " I'm making a difference " logo. I followed the link and got through to the Windows Live messenger page which gives money to organisations dedicated to social

Messenger: Lost password or secret question

I blogged about this a couple of years ago, but I still get quite a few mails asking about resetting passwords on Live Messenger (MSN Messenger). Some people can't remember their password, some have had their account hacked, some cannot sign in. All of

Instant phishing

I read this in the newswires about phishers taking over IM accounts and using these accounts to get personal details from you. SPIM (spam for Instant messaging) is something that would really bug me (if I got any). as my IM account is really simple to

Instant messaging - anywhere

A lot of us are trying to get our heads around Web 2.0 and how it will affect the way we work on the web. People are driving the web - not the other way around. Think about commenting on blogs, subscribing to something on a Wiki - this is changing how

Unified: A strategy but no communications?

I was interested to read the blog post from Microsoft Monitor the other day talking about our recent announcements on our Unified Communications Strategy. I was at the UC user group meeting on Tuesday (there's another one tonight too,) and it was really

MSN Messenger and Yahoo talk to each other.

We've had this a while in our Live Communications Server product. The ability for corporate users to have contacts that are external to their company. We call it PIC ( Public Internet Connectivity ), and here's some information on it if you'd like to

RTC Webcasts for May

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Tips and Tricks for Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 (Level 100) Tuesday, May 23, 2006 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time Evan Archilla, Consultant, Projectline Services Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 is an integrated

Be careful of the Christmas worm

I just noticed this on one of the newswires . There's a worm propagating around the Instant Messaging services pretending to redirect you to a Xmas site. Here's what IMLogic have to say about it: This worm broadcasts a URL out over IM clients which downloads

Encarta answers your questions via MSN Messenger

So many people have told me about this new feature, I just had to try it out for myself, and now I have, I've just got to share it with you! You can add Encarta to your MSN Messenger buddy list and ask it questions. The answers are totally fascinating.

An amazing set of support resources

Blake submitted an amazing set of links to the Industry Insiders blog yesterday, the links took me over an hour to check that they were all current and valid, so heaven only knows how long they took to collate. He has managed to get every single link

Add video clips to your Outlook emails

I've been chatting to a friend in Redmond recently, and he sent me a video clip tour to show me around his office and area. He'd captured things on video, chopped it, played around with the file and sent it to me. But there's a really cool add in that
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