b5media.com

Advertise with us

Enjoying this blog? Check out the rest of the Technology Channel Subscribe to this Feed

Microsoft Weblog

Archive for the ‘Windows Live’ Category

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 […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

March 26th, 2008

Make WP Keywords a Tag Provider Option in Windows Live Writer

One thing I wish Windows Live Writer would do is make the keywords functionality available from the “Properties” window a Tag Provider option along with the other tag providers like: flickr, BuzzNet, Technorati, IceRocket, etc.
I’ll say it again as well, you really need to provide a function for me to browse through my uploads […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

February 25th, 2008

Failed Updates Again - KB932471 and Office 2007 SP1

I’m still getting failed updates for these two items. Anyone got any new suggestions for how to get these successfully installed yet?
I’ve turned off my anti-virus, Windows Live OneCare. I’ve turned everything else off I can think of and I still can’t get these two updates to complete successfully.
Maybe I’m too anal about this […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

February 17th, 2008

Office 14? What happened to Office 13?

Maybe I’m just missing something but news about the functionality of Office 14 is coming out and aren’t we still on Office 12? See, one of the first blogs I wrote for b5media was called Office 12 Watch and it was all about Office 2007 before it was released and named Office 2007. Now we’re […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

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

January 17th, 2008

Managing My OneCare Circle

I’ve come across an dilemma in my use of Windows Live OneCare. You see, I’ve been recommending and installing this software on lots of people’s machines. Mainly family members and some client accounts. Then of course there are the three computers in my house that have it installed. It would be four but it […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

December 18th, 2007

Windows LiveWriter Cutting Off Category Labels

I absolutely love using Windows Live Writer to do all my blogging work. I think it’s a great tool, with loads of features and flexibility. After finding and downloading a number of additional plug-ins, I like it even more.
I’ve got a small little issue though. Something happened recently where the labels on my categories […]

By Jason Bean -- 6 comments

December 6th, 2007

Windows Live SkyDrive

Playing around a little bit with the SkyDrive service that’s part of the Windows Live suite. I think this is a good idea, but it needs a few things immediately for me to really think of it as an everyday option for usefulness.

Absolutely need to increase storage size up from 1GB. I’ve got a […]

By Jason Bean -- 4 comments

December 4th, 2007

Windows Live Writer Plug-ins Goldmine

Why in the world it’s taken me this long to search for, download and install some additional plug-ins for LiveWriter; I have no clue.
As you can see from the images above, I downloaded quite a few files that I’ve now installed and can use with Windows Live Writer.
I’m sure you’ll be seeing the results […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

October 23rd, 2007

Significantly Less Spam with Hotmail Through Outlook

Not too long ago I wrote about downloading and installing the Microsoft Office Outlook Connector to begin managing my Hotmail account with Outlook on my laptop. Something significant has happened since I started doing that, I’ve barely gotten ANY spam into my account.
It appears that it’s not even hitting Outlook at all because my Junk […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

Site Meter
Close
E-mail It