From now on, you can also invite your friends on AOL, Google and Hyves to Windows Live. You choose whether to import your complete address book at once or only selected contacts.

To use this service, click on “Add people” in your Windows Live Profile or on your Windows Live Home page, and gather all [...]

Some of you have asked Max Messenger whether there is a possibility to display who in your contacts is “online” but has set their status to “Appear offline”. There is no such possibility! Not even using an additional program or via some websites. Those sites claim that it is possible. But [...]

Yahoo! has updated Messenger and Mail with numerous new features.

Send e-mails with attachments up to 25 MB (instead of 10 MB).
Web mail: combined Calendar and Notes feature.
Add attachments via drag and drop from your desktop.
Images in mails are shown as previews, they are resizable and can be rotated.
Sort your inbox according to contacts importance.
Full screen [...]

“QFE” is short for Quick Fix Engineering—and that is exactly what the latest Windows Live Essentials updates are for. In this post, I will highlight the Release Notes for Essentials 2009 QFE2. So, what is new or changed?

Windows Live Messenger conversation window: Chinese/Japanese/Korean IME (Input Method Editor) reset to English in the Messenger [...]

Along with the other recent updates to Windows Live Essentials, Family Safety has been updated. The new build no longer requires parents to register a Windows Live ID for each child account added; the software now relies on Windows user accounts. More changes include fewer consent prompts and faster web surfing, compared to [...]

Remember the good old times when Windows 98 was so cool? These were the times of MSN Messenger 6, a stone-age program nowadays. Some months ago, in February, I had the chance to check it out, and I decided to share it with you. What is interesting is that you could see [...]

As viruses, backdoors, Trojan horses, even root kits are commonly spread these days, you should pay close attention while using Windows Live Messenger in order to maintain your own and your computer’s safety. Here are some tips that help you to stay secure:

Do not click every link you receive.
Be careful about strange instant [...]

Hi there! This is my first post here at mynetx – Windows Live Enhanced. You probably all know the immense popular add-on for Windows Live Messenger? If not, visit msgpluslive.net. Most people just use it for tabbed chat windows, the boss-protection function or maybe the colored messages, nicknames, etc. Well Messenger Plus! Live is a [...]

After a longer break, the summer edition of the series “Windows Live and You” is finally back. Today I will be talking with Lance Manasse, who lives in the United Kingdom and is also known by his nickname “Salem”.
mynetx: Please tell me a bit about yourself. Is your life directly or indirectly involved [...]