Mary-Jo Foley of ZD Net has reported that Microsoft is readying another public beta of their forthcoming Windows Live Essentials 2011 suite, an update to the previously titled Wave 3 suite of programs. Windows Live Essentials is commonly described as being exactly that, essential, as it’s suite of add-on programs, including Mail, Photo Gallery and [...]

Categories: Microsoft

Google’s new social networking service, Google Wave, launched last year to a huge fanfare and and equally huge controversy over privacy.  Many users complained that anyone befriending you on the service could then see personal contact details of everyone else if your address book. The service was based around  real-time character-by character chat typing, drag-and-drop [...]

Categories: Google

Microsoft is going to release the Facebook social connector for Outlook later today according to Neowin.  The connector allows you to integrate your Facebook contacts into Outlook to view things like their status updates.  It’s a good way to keep in touch with people, though businesses might find the concept irritating. Many people were expecting this [...]

Categories: Facebook, Software

People with multiple computer systems sometimes need to exchange data between the computers, and sometimes they need to make sure that the same data set is available on all machines. This is for instance true for emails, calendar events or local copies of websites if the person is a web developer. Syncing refers to the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

One of the goals of the Windows Live Wave 4 release was to improve interaction between Windows Live components. One of these improvements is the better integration of Windows Live Messenger into web services such as Hotmail. Windows users who open the Hotmail website in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer will for instance notice that Windows Live [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

It was only released a week ago, but already 1 million people have downloaded Microsoft’s new Windows Live Messenger software for the iPhone.  This has got to make it one of, if not the, fastest moving software in the iPhone app store. In a statement for Microsoft, Michael Chang, Group Product manager for Windows Live [...]

Categories: Apple, iPhone, Microsoft

The Windows Live Essentials beta download has just been enabled by Microsoft. Interested users can download the next iteration of Windows Live directly from the official website. Downloads are provided in seven different languages including English, Chinese, French and Spanish. Only the Web Setup installer is offered on the site. The setup routine on the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Microsoft began to rollout the new Windows Live Hotmail yesterday to customers worldwide. The Hotmail mail accounts are stored on cluster servers that will get updated one at a time which means that some users will already be able to experience the new Windows Live Hotmail while others have to wait until their cluster gets [...]

Categories: Email

Most web users are accustomed to filling out login forms to access a web account. These login forms usually ask for the username and password of a account. The information entered by the user is then compared to the information in the site’s database and access is only granted if the username and password combination [...]

Categories: Security, The Web