Month: November 2005

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1884677,00.asp

http://www.betanews.com/article/Yahoo_Passes_on_Possible_AOL_Deal/1131636475

http://www.betanews.com/article/Michigan_Video_Games_Law_on_Hold/1131645904

http://www.betanews.com/article/Livecom_Adds_Firefox_Support/1131569579

As you may know the dogfood version of Windows Live Messenger (WLM) 8 is floating around the net. This version is for internal testing for Microsoft employees. (dogfood means the company beta tests their own product before releasing it to Microsoft / MSN‘s beta testers.) You cannot login to WLM, unless you have a passport (www.passport.com) account that is set by Microsoft / MSN as a WLM 8 beta account. There are programs out there to work around this, but there are known reports that some have viruses in them. I suggest waiting till the official beta starts. This way … Continue reading Leak of Windows Live Messenger 8

http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_to_Digitize_100000_Books/1131130510

http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_FrontRunner_for_AOL_Buy/1131371448

http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_Acquires_FolderShare_for_Windows_Live/1131042993

Read about new features at the blog: http://spaces.msn.com/members/MessengerSays/

Mail Beta (Kahuna) is now Windows Mail Live! Start is not Live!. MSN Messenger is now Windows Live Messenger. Microsoft is now merging their MSN line into Windows.http://ideas.live.com/ I do not know if this is good or not, but I hope they do not change the MSN Beta Team / structure.