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Source: LiveSino.net Live Mail Wave 4: Possible New Features and a New Photo

Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 might get Gmail-alike features like Labeling and Archiving. LiveSino.net has published a new screenshot of the Windows Live Mail Wave 4 main window.

Windows Live and You: “Listen to and talk with customers all over the world” (Marcus Schmidt, Microsoft)

Summer is over—but my interview series “Windows Live and You” is not. Today I talked with Marcus Schmidt, who is working for Microsoft and keeping in touch with people like you, to find out what users truly think about Windows and Windows Live. Marcus is a great and helpful person, so let’s [...]

Yahoo is socializing—or just copying Windows Live?

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 [...]

My browser is a bad guy :(

“Windows Live is designed for you, but maybe not for your browser.”
This was what I saw on my screen when I opened Windows Live Calendar with Google Chrome. The alert advises me to use either Internet Explorer 6 or higher, Safari 3 or higher, or Firefox 2 or higher, in this order.
Questions arising [...]

Windows Live and You: “Making my views known on behalf of the ‘little everyday user’” (Technogran)

Talking about Windows Live always means talking about its users—the tech-savvy ones as well as the “normal” users. Today I am talking with Technogran, a ‘geeky grandma trying desperately to keep up with it all’, as she describes herself. She lives in the UK and likes Windows Live very much.
mynetx: Technogran, it is [...]

Windows Live and You: “Building the right platform for web sites to plug into Windows Live users” (Angus Logan, Microsoft)

Welcome to a new interview in the summer edition of the series “Windows Live and You”! Today I have invited a special guest to talk with him about his personal relation to Windows Live: let’s welcome Angus Logan, Senior Technical Product Manager for Live Services at Microsoft.
mynetx: Angus, it is a pleasure for [...]

Wave 4 exclusive: Windows Live Events shutting down

Windows Live Events is a Windows Live service enabling users in Windows Live Spaces to share and plan different types of Events happening around them while collaborating with other services such as Windows Live Calendar and Windows Live Spaces. In 2010, Windows Live Events is going to retire, and existing data will be removed. [...]

Hotmail annoyances

Windows Live Hotmail is great: it’s fast, reliable and doesn’t require me to install any client application but a browser. But there are also things in Hotmail that annoy me.
Marking mail as junk
The Junk filters in Hotmail are very good, as they filter most unsolicited e-mail I receive. However, some e-mail gets delivered [...]

Windows Live and You: “Messenger is like the phone: I just use it” (Kip Kniskern)

What’s the site where you get Windows Live news first? — Probably your answer is “LiveSide”, and that has its reason. I had an interesting discussion with Kip Kniskern, who is one of the authors at LiveSide.net.
mynetx: Please tell me a bit about yourself. Is your life directly or indirectly involved with [...]

Windows Live and You: “I like to give people power of choice” (Mauro Jr)

Group Chat Comparison: Groups.im vs. Messenger 2009

Live Wave 3: the next round will start soon (UPDATE)

Windows Live Wave 3 – Preview to the new features

New Live Hotmail: Has Microsoft a hearing ear?

Windows Live Wave 3 release date