Microsoft SmartScreen Filter is a technology used in several Microsoft products, including Internet Explorer but also Windows Live applications such as Windows Live Messenger. Internet Explorer users can disable the SmartScreen Filter in the browser directly by going to Tools > Safety > Turn Off SmartScreen Filter. Microsoft unfortunately has not added the same option [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome

The Microsoft Office add-in, Office Live Files closes the existing gap between Microsoft’s popular Office suite and their online service Office Live. You see, while it is possible to save documents to Microsoft’s Windows Live SkyDrive service it is not that easy to load the uploaded documents again in Microsoft Office. While it is possible [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Offering some sort of extensibility can improve the overall usability of a software program. The prime example for this is the Firefox web browser which would only be half as good without its extensions. The Windows Live team had similar thoughts as they launched a new website for Windows Live plug-ins. Plug-ins are small extensions [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

We have already mentioned on Saturday that Microsoft would improve the security of their email service Hotmail by offering HTTPS connections as an alternative to standard HTTP connections. Back then the feature was not available for all Hotmail users, as Microsoft rolled it out in batches to ensure an error free transition. The Hotmail Sign [...]

Categories: Email, Security

Hotmail just announced a new feature that allows every Internet user to sign up for Microsoft’s messaging service without creating a Hotmail email address. This was one of the features that users were requesting, and Microsoft decided to implement the feature so that users can use Hotmail features without having to create another (Hotmail) email [...]

Categories: Email, The Web

Microsoft has just released the final version of Windows Live Essentials 2011, the popular software compilation that contains programs such as Messenger, Photo Gallery, Mail or Movie Maker. There is no announcement yet on the changes, except that the 2011 edition of Windows Live integrates fully with Microsoft’s latest operating system Windows 7, including full [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Microsoft have announced that they;re to shut their underused blogging service, Windows Live Spaces, and instead port everyone’s account to WordPress.  The announcement, made at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference and later reported by LiveSide, said that all 30 million active bloggers on Live Spaces would be migrated starting today. The Spaces migration to WordPress.com will [...]

Categories: Microsoft

Microsoft made an announcement back in June that the two programs Windows Live Sync and Live Mesh Beta would be brought together as Windows Live Sync Beta as part of Windows Live Essentials beta. The main goals of the project were to offer Windows Live Sync users with options to synchronize files to PCs and [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Windows Live Essentials will be the next iteration of Microsoft’s popular Windows Live applications suite. The first beta was released back in June (see Windows Live Essentials Beta Download), and several news sites were reporting that beta 2 would be released in this week. The day of the release has come, as download links went [...]

Categories: Software, Windows