From the release of Windows Live Essentials 2009 (Wave 3) to POP3 for every Hotmail user, from Internet Explorer 8 to Windows 7 Release Candidate: there have been many happenings around Microsoft in the first half of 2009.

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 [...]

Did you have some trouble using Windows Live Mail in the past months? Its recently released bugfix version might correct the error that you experienced. According to Roger Benson, Lead Program Manager Windows Live Mail, Version 2009 QFE2 (14.0.8089.726) addresses, among others, the following bugs:

Windows Live Mail can now properly import Outlook Express [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The silence is over—for now: the Windows Live team has released updates to Windows Live Messenger, Mail, Writer, Photo Gallery and Sync. Furthermore, Windows Live Movie Maker has been released and its beta has ended. Watch the following video to get an introduction to the all-new Movie Maker.
Introduction and Walkthrough—Windows Live Movie Maker

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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 [...]

Nowadays, displays offer a rich variety of colors, mostly 32-bit, allowing a multitude of 4,294,967,296 different colors—more than 4 billion! Graphic artists tend to use more and more of these possibilities. Messenger is one of them, especially in version 2009, also known as Wave 3. But if you have a display that [...]

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 [...]