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May 16th, 2008

Now Chat with Live Contacts in Yahoo! Mail

I just noticed when I logged into my AT&T U-verse e-mail account that I can now chat with Windows Live contacts from within Yahoo! Mail.
I thought this was a nice feature, and even interesting that it has been worked on and released within such close time frame to the hostile takeover bid by […]

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January 26th, 2008

Windows 7 in 2009?

Lots of articles and posts lately about Microsoft gearing to launch Windows 7 in late 2009. We know that will more than likely end up being 2010, but that’s not the important part.
An article by Mary Jo Foley at All About Microsoft on ZDNet says that Windows 7 and Windows Live are going to be […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

October 9th, 2007

Yahoo Mail and Live Messenger Start Playing Nicely

I just logged into my Yahoo e-mail account and saw this message. Looks like Yahoo! and Microsoft are playing nicely together now.
That’s a pretty interesting development. Does that mean I can now see my Yahoo contacts in Hotmail and Live Mail? Not that I’ve seen so far.
Is the walled garden of instant messaging clients […]

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