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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
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
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
Kumo email

As you may have heard, Microsoft is now internally testing a new search engine codenamed "Kumo." Here's the text of the internal email announcing this to Microsoft employees yesterday: From: Satya Nadella Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 4:18 PM To: Microsoft - All Employees (QBDG) Subject...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 03-03-2009
VOIP returns to Windows Live Messenger (in some countries)

I believe they used to offer this via Verizon Wireless in the US, but it looks like Microsoft has finally found a new partner to offer VOIP services over Windows Live Messenger again: Software behemoth Microsoft Corp. has chosen Telefonica, the largest telecommunications provider in Latin America, as...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 12-05-2008
Small but important Live Mesh update

Earlier this month, Microsoft made some changes to Live Mesh , including very low level support for P2P (peer to peer) folder sharing. The problem was (at the time) that you couldn’t configure this explicitly in the UI. So if you wanted to exclude the Live Desktop from a folder share (and not exceed...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-31-2008
Live Search home page redesign

I received an email from Microsoft today noting that they had redesigned the Live Search home page, but navigating there, I didn’t see a difference. Ah. I’m in Ireland currently and the changes are US-only at the moment. Here’s the Live Search blog post about the redesign: Today we're releasing an...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-30-2008
Microsoft Office Outlook Connector 12.1 Beta

This could be huge. Those waiting for calendaring syncing between Hotmail/Windows Live and Microsoft Outlook can rejoice: It looks like it's finally happening (albeit in beta form): Brief Description With Microsoft Office Outlook Connector, you can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Office...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-24-2008
Microsoft to load HP PCs with crapware

So… Let me see if I’m parsing this one correctly. In the buildup to Windows Vista, Microsoft complained that PC makers were putting too much crapware on their PCs, thereby ruining the "user experience" of Windows for new users. "We can't do anything about it because it would be illegal...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-03-2008

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