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Windows Live

New Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 is here – finally!

July 31, 2010

Not that I really care about this, but Microsoft did roll out the Live Hotmail Wave 4 afterall. It’s been a long wait for Hotmail fans but now they can ride the all new Hotmail. Here is a video showing the new features implemented in the new Hotmail. Currently I am checking out what’s in [...]

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Fix Windows Live Essentials uninstalling problems [Troubleshooting]

June 25, 2010

Windows Live Essentials Beta [Build 15.3.2804.607] is now available for download. I downloaded the Beta only to find myself stuck with a weird problem with the uninstall of the previous version of Windows Live Essentials. I tried to uninstall the previous version but the ‘Uninstall Wizard’ failed to launch. The previous installation had messed up [...]

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Live Hotmail Wave 4: Should you bother?

June 21, 2010

I’d say No. Yes, that was my answer when I first created a Hotmail account 10 years ago and it is the same now. It’s been around half a year since we are hearing about the Live Wave 4. There has been a lot of talk all around the internet and Microsoft did roll out [...]

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Windows Live Messenger for iPhone [Web Videos]

May 3, 2010

TheNextWeb Conference 2010 was held between April 27-29th in Amsterdam where companies from US and Europe gathered to discuss the future of the web. Microsoft’s Windows Live Platform was discussed in detail and many video demonstrations followed. Here we have a video demo of the Windows Live Messenger app for the iPhone showcased during the [...]

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Windows Live Wave 4: No support for XP

April 23, 2010

Windows XP users, (sigh), you reading this? Don’t you think it’s about time you must leave the sinking boat and upgrade to a bigger, nicer boat – Windows 7? Well, sooner or later you’ll have to because Microsoft is really have no pity left for XP users now. First it was the official end-of-support for [...]

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Microsoft shows explicit signs to abandon XP

March 30, 2010

Microsoft was and is very clear in its product life-cycle theories and the company has always followed them quite strictly. Couple of years ago Microsoft declared to reduce (and eventually end) the support for the aging Windows XP. Then it started reducing the number of automatic & recommended updates and only provided crucial security patches [...]

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Upload photos and videos to Facebook directly from Windows Live Photo Gallery

January 3, 2010

Facebook’s been one of the best platform for sharing photos and videos online. And I know how everytime you get so excited to publish pictures on Facebook from your recent trip. Although uploading photos on Facebook is no rocket science, but we never mind to simplify an already simple process. How about uploading your pictures [...]

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Merge / delete duplicate contacts in Windows Live Hotmail

November 21, 2009

I must make it clear that this little tip is for beginner’s only. You must have experienced that many of your contacts have multiple email accounts and its quite irritating to see your address book filled with multiple entries of the same person. The reason is, Windows Live Hotmail treats every email address as a [...]

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Force Windows Live Mail to always minimize to system tray in Windows 7

November 16, 2009

Sometime ago I showed a simple trick how you can minimize Windows Live Messenger to system tray in Windows 7. Based on the similar trick, I am going show you how you can set Windows Live Mail to always minimize to tray. 1) Right-click on the Windows Live Mail icon and then click ‘Properties’. 2) [...]

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Force Windows Live Messenger to always minimize to tray in Windows 7

October 17, 2009

If you have observed and compared closely how Windows Live Messenger behaves in Windows Vista and Windows 7 then you must have figured out that in Windows 7, the Live Messenger does not minimize to tray. Quite annoyingly, it just sits in the Super Bar of Windows 7 which looks absurd. Here is a quick [...]

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