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Thursday, September 17, 2009 7:32 PM

Previewing Office Online Web Apps…”Impressive”

Techcrunch has a really good preview of our new browser-based version of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Onenote.  At the moment it is being rolled out for free to some Live Skydrive users.  The public beta is happening in early 2010 but if you’re
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Monday, March 16, 2009 11:00 AM

Windows 7 Rookies – Alexa, Age 7, vs Allen, Age 76

Talk about suspense.  Learn more about Rookies on the Microsoft website ! As usual, check out Windows Live Photo Gallery by visiting http://download.live.com and using it for FREE forever!
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Monday, March 02, 2009 2:40 PM

Windows 7 Rookies – Alexa, Age 7, Shows Off Photo Stitching

Following Kylie about the joys of using Windows Live Photo Gallery , Alexa shows off her talent.  Keep it up CPB!
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Monday, February 02, 2009 11:04 PM

Firefox and Live Search Finally Play Super Nice

One of the great features about IE8 is the way the search box is provider neutral allowing for a great search experience regardless of whether you use Google, Yahoo, Live, Amazon, Wikipedia, New York Times etc etc… So with one click, you can browse search
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:30 PM

London Blogger Meetup

Since my boy James Senior has been living the good life in Seattle as the Live Services Evangelist, he’s kindly setup a great blogger meet-up with an all case of Microsoft technologists, managers and bloggers.   If you want to come, put your name
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Friday, November 21, 2008 4:26 PM

New Plug-ins for Live Photo Gallery

Thanks James for the heads up on the new plug-ins! LiveUpload to Facebook - Created by Will Duff .  LiveUpload to Facebook is a plug-in for Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta that makes it easy for anyone to upload their photos to Facebook. The plug-in
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 2:54 PM

Windows Live Wave 3 Beta is Released

Lots of updates with the new versions of Live Messenger, Live Writer, Search Toolbar, and Live Services integration.  Check it out!  Also, the branding and skinning of all the apps have become more unified so the look and feel is similar.  
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Friday, May 09, 2008 2:46 PM

It’s Not About Backup, It’s About Sync

In the last year or so, there has been a wave of activity in the storage service space. Companies new and old have been entering into the fray to tout their friendly, automated consumer backup solutions. Many names may ring a bell and are in the process
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 10:04 PM

An Inside Look At Microsoft Research's New Building

Scoble has a pretty interesting writing up about Microsoft Research and some of the projects they are working on!  Also there are a lot of pretty pictures of the new building! Interesting Comments About: Stuff covered in the tour: Microsoft Surface
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Friday, February 01, 2008 2:13 PM

Microsoft Goes Yahoo!

Eileen beat me to the punch on this one. I am excited by this announcement because some of my favorite sites on the Internet are Yahoo properties such as Flickr and Upcoming. I also hope that that certain technologies die off like Yahoo messenger. Here
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Sunday, December 30, 2007 11:00 PM

Did You Know: Live Photo Gallery Does Panoramic Auto-Stitching?

My cousin decided to get a new place and needed to post pictures of their apartment on Craigslist.  I suggested they try panoramic pics of their place to show the size of the apartment.  Being a lazy person, he didn't care, so I did it for him,
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 3:01 PM

Tafiti Brightens Up SharePoint Enterprise Search

Microsoft announced yesterday that Tafiti , the experimental Silverlight front-end for Live Search, has been released under the Microsoft Shared Source Permissive License *it's like BSD*.  Here is the announcement.   Internally this caused a
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Monday, December 03, 2007 5:49 PM

Microsoft Buys Video Social Networking Startup, WebFives.com

Last friday, Microsoft took another step in improving its online consumer platform by purchasing WebFives. Webfives is an online rich-media blogging/social networking site geared towards filmmakers, musicians, and charities. It's technology is unique
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Thursday, October 25, 2007 2:04 PM

Ina Fried of ZDNet Interviews Ballmer on Windows Mobile Strategy

My favorite excerpt from this fun interview was the following: "What about full Web browsing? I mean, that seems to be the one feature of the iPhone that would also benefit business users. Ballmer: It sure would." Simple and blunt answering is Ballmer's
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 12:48 PM

The New Face of Maps.Live.com

Finally!  Today is the day I officially switch from Google Maps to Live Maps.  The new Live Maps has a host of new features, but more importantly it finally brings a better user interface to the world of online mapping *i.e. kicks Google's ass*
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