- Posted by acxede on August 28, 2008
According to the Windows Live web site, Windows Live Hotmail will soon be getting several new features. Among them:
More storage space: the storage space "automatically grow[s] with you" although there are "limits" - whatever that means
A single UI v...
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- Posted by acxede on August 27, 2008
Looks like Office Live Mail has been having problems for a couple of days. This is what I see most (though not all) of the time:
Office Live Mail has been experiencing problems...
Strangely, my Windows Live Mail seems to be working just fine. Any one else out there with the same probl...
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- Posted by acxede on August 13, 2008
Office Live Update 1.2 for Office Live Workspace is out. You can download it at Microsoft's download site. The main feature of the release is that Firefox users can work with Office Live Workspace and the multiple document upload tool.
- Posted by acxede on July 30, 2008
A problem with sharing your Office Live Workspace with others was that those folks were required to have signed up for Office Live Workspace with a Windows Live ID. Although Microsoft would like everyone on the planet to sign up for OLW, not everyone does. There was no way to share your workspace ...
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- Posted by acxede on July 29, 2008
Office Live Small Business's backup and restore was always a sore point with me. To be honest, there wasn't a fool-proof way of backing up and restoring your site. You were at the mercy of Office Live's automatic backups and had to keep your fingers crossed while restoring. If you'...
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- Posted by acxede on July 28, 2008
Gene Huller informed me a couple of days ago that Office Live Mail (and all varieties of Hotmail, in fact) finally works with a BlackBerry. Ever since Microsoft announced the intention to do so, I've been trying periodically, but it didn't seem to work. I tried again after Gene's messa...
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- Posted by acxede on June 30, 2008
Microsoft's press release today revealed that Office Live Small Business now has over a million subscribers.
- Posted by acxede on May 21, 2008
Site Designer now has an option to create your own theme. Pull down the Themes menu and you'll see the new option right at the top, as shown in the figure below:
Just click New... and upload your custome image. Then when you choose a custom image from your theme, it will appear in...
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- Posted by acxede on May 21, 2008
Site Designer's Options dialog, shown below, now has a new checkbox to hide the Microsoft Office Live logo at the bottom of your web pages. That's one less thing to hack...
- Posted by acxede on May 20, 2008
Microsoft announced the availability of Office Live Workspace in French, German, Japanese, and Spanish.
Since I don't know any of them, I leave it to you to try the service out and post comments.
- Posted by acxede on May 16, 2008
Microsoft released Office Live Update 1.1 yesterday. It incudes:
Performance updates for accessing OLW faster from Microsoft Office
The latest version of the Office Live Add-in with new menu options
A multiple-document upload tool
Actually, th...
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- Posted by acxede on May 12, 2008
Not being able to use Office Live Mail with my BlackBerry has been one of my pet peeves with Office Live. That's about to change this summer.
Research In Motion, the maker of BlackBerry, announced today that it's working with Microsoft to bring Windows Live Mail (of which, Office Liv...
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- Posted by acxede on March 4, 2008
Now Microsoft wants to give you a chance to win $100000 for beta-testing Office Live Workspace. Sign up at the offer page if you want to enter hte sweepstakes.
- Posted by acxede on March 4, 2008
Office Live Workspace (OLW) public beta is now open. Sign up if you haven't done so already. It's a great tool to store information and doucments online and share them with family and friends.
If you've used Office Live Small Business's workspaces, you'll be completely at...
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- Posted by acxede on March 3, 2008
Today, Microsoft announced Microsoft Online Services, a new set of subscription based services for larger businesses. They consist of hosted versions of Microsoft Exchange server, Microsoft SharePoint server, and Microsoft Live Meeting 2007.
Now Microsoft has a distinct set of services for e...
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