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Windows Live Gets YouTube, 18 More Content Partners

From Microsoft: This week, 19 new third-party feed partners will be rolling out globally on Windows Live, bringing the total of feed partners up to 75 global web companies, so over 450 million Windows Live customers have even more ways to share what they're doing across the web and communicate with...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 11-11-2009
SkyDrive Explorer

I've been hoping and looking for some kind of solution that would let people access their 25 GB of free storage space on Windows Live SkyDrive using simple, Explorer-based drag and drop. It's been kind of a tough slog all year, however, with only one solution, Gladinet, which is hard to configure...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 11-04-2009
MySpace, Hulu and more on Windows Live this week

From Microsoft: 23 new third-party feed partners and 4 new contacts partners will be rolling out globally on Windows Live this week, giving 500 million+ Windows Live customers even more ways to share their online lives and communicate with the people they care about. What's New: Feed partners...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-14-2009
Windows Live Movie Maker 1.0 is now live

Sorry about the confusion yesterday, but Windows Live Movie Maker 1.0 is now live. Here's the word from Microsoft: Today, Microsoft is releasing its new Windows Live Movie Maker application globally. As the first application within the Windows Live Essentials suite optimized for Windows 7,...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-19-2009
Microsoft shutting down MSN Soapbox

No big surprise, since I was apparently the only non-Microsoft employee to ever use the service. (Never heard of it? You're not alone. It was Microsoft's "answer" to You Tube.) Here's an email I received this week: MSN will no longer offer Soapbox, the user generated video service...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-22-2009
Outlook Connector for Office 2010

If you're running the Outlook 2010 Technical Preview (cough), you may have noticed that the shipping version of the Outlook Connector--which enables you to use Windows Live Hotmail, contacts, and calendar with Microsoft Outlook--won't work. Well, no worries: Microsoft has quietly released a new...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-11-2009
Microsoft integrates Bing with Hotmail

From Microsoft: Bing – Microsoft’s decision engine – has come to Windows Live Hotmail through a new feature unique to Hotmail, called quick add. Gone are the days of shuffling between multiple windows to search for a map to email to party guests or the latest viral video to share with friends and family...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-09-2009
Hotmail rolls out email account aggregation

From Microsoft: Today, Microsoft announced that Hotmail email account aggregation is rolling out in the US, Canada and Brazil. This is a feature that allows consumers to receive email from other POP-enabled email accounts (including Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and AOL) directly into their Windows Live Hotmail...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-30-2009
Make Bing your default search provider in IE

Thanks to Alan B. for this tip: You can make Bing your default search provider in Internet Explorer 7 or 8 by visiting Microsoft's Create Your Own Search Provider page and entering the following information: URL: http://www.bing.com/search?q=TEST Name: Bing Then, click Install Search Provider. (And...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-01-2009
Announcing Bing

Microsoft today will announce Bing (previously codenamed "Kumo"), it's next generation Windows Live Search service. Bing will be made available in a public beta beginning June 3. But you can read more about it in my Bing Preview , which contains a number of pre-release screenshots, all...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 05-28-2009

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