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[2006-04-30] Amazon A9 / Alexa Using Windows Live
Alexa, the oft-used but never trusted web stats site has switched over its search engine from Google to Windows Live, proudly displaying the new "powered by Windows Live" logo on search results pages.
[2006-04-29] Windows Live Mail Has a Philosophy?
As I go around Microsoft I ask teams "are you just gonna sell your participants/partners/users/customers down the river or are you gonna stand up for them?"
[2006-04-28] Vista’s Aero Glass Inside Applications
Tim Sneath explains to application developers how they can build applications that use Aero Glass inside the client area.
[2006-04-27] Windows OneCare: Free Perpetual Beta
Time is running out; just four days left to snag a year of Microsoft's excellent Windows Live OneCare security software for just twenty bucks.
[2006-04-27] Windows Live Signing Up Colleges By The Truckload
Microsoft has been busy, signing up colleges to use their Windows Live @ edu. A lot of colleges.
[2006-04-26] Windows Live: Not MS As Usual
Mary Jo Foley writes that, unlike the rest of Microsoft, people actually like the Windows Live team, and want to work for it.
[2006-04-23] New Windows Vista Build: 5365
Microsoft has released a new build of Windows Vista. Here's some stuff:
[2006-04-21] Another Viewpoint
David Weiss posted a great virtual tour of the Mac testing lab in Redmond.
[2006-04-20] Windows SideShow Remote
I'm big on Windows SideShow, the great technology for auxiliary displays that Microsoft is developing.
[2006-04-18] What’s In The Vista Versions?
A briefly available Windows Vista Product Guide revealed some interesting things about the coming operating system, some of which Ed Bott is blogging. In his first post on the guide, he runs down the differences between the various Vista versions you can buy.
[2006-04-17] Mac Opens Windows To Confusing New World
Not too long ago, it was considered sacrilege for a journalist to choose a PC over a Macintosh - it was like telling veteran reporters (the guys that served in Nam) that The New York Times was a bunch of liberal alarmist gobbledy-gook, which, of course, it is. And that's just fine with them, just like their time tested Macs.
[2006-04-17] Lots Fixed with Ecto 2 RC3
Writing this with ecto for Windows 2 beta RC3, just released. All the issues I've been commenting about in the beta forum here and here seem to be fixed.
[2006-04-13] Windows Live Local: Caught… By Themselves
The first thing many people think when they hear about Microsoft and Amazon taking pictures of city streets to include in local search is, "Where are they? I want to be in the picture!"
[2006-04-12] Windows Live Academic Search
As the old joke goes, Windows Live Academic Search is, yup, Live.
[2006-04-11] Microsoft Gets Niall Kennedy
Microsoft's Windows Live unit has picked up a "name": Niall Kennedy, well-known for his work at Technorati, will be helping shape the feed syndication platform used by Windows Live.
[2006-04-10] Windows Vista’s System Accelerators
Microsoft has debuted the final names for Windows Vista's system accelerator features:
[2006-04-07] Microsoft Open Port 25 To Hackers
For once, the correct definition of hackers applies here; the new Port 25 website from Microsoft offers communications from the company's Open Source Software Lab.
[2006-04-07] MSN Spaces Adds Windows Live Expo Content
MSN Spaces has added a Windows Live Expo module, so people can list their Expo items on their Space.
[2006-04-05] All Windows Drivers On A Single CD
Someone's running a project to make a pack of every single possible driver for Windows XP on a single CD, a CD you can use when installing Windows on any system and remove any worries about finding the correct drivers.
[2006-04-03] Time To Get OneCare
Its April, and you know what that means.
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