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Microsoft Weblog

November 10th, 2008

Frequent Phishing Scam Using Microsoft

Image: Screen capture of email message in Gmail
I’ve been getting a number of spam email messages that are using Microsoft as their "trusted" name to let people feel safer about an email and feel that it’s a legitimate message they need to be paying attention to in their Inbox.
As you can see from the screen […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

September 3rd, 2008

Microsoft Partners with BuscaPe to Expand Services in Mexico

It turns out that MSN isn’t dead, they’re actually expanding south into Mexico.
SAO PAULO, Brazil, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — BuscaPe.com Group (http://www.buscape.com/), which is owner of the largest Comparison Shopping Network in Latin America, and Microsoft MSN (NASDAQ:MFST) announce a partnership in Mexico that will benefit more than 12 million users who visit the Prodigy/MSN […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

August 8th, 2008

08.08.08 – Lucky Microsoft! Loads of Sponsorship Eyeballs

After browsing around the NBC Olympics website I got to noticing just how much screen real estate that Microsoft is gathering on the site. They’ve just about got every single corner of the page covered by one of their properties.
Good deal for them, and I’m sure NBC was pleased to get some sponsorship money […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

July 1st, 2008

MSN Releases New Version of Toolbar

I’ll be honest, one of the toolbars I don’t use or have installed even is the MSN toolbar. I never did like the MSN interface back when I had MSN as my ISP on dial-up. Hated their browser navigation interface. I’d always make the connection with their program and then use the default Internet […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

June 10th, 2008

MSN Mobile Zune Promo

Microsoft is promoting their MSN Mobile product and offering a chance to win a new Zune. Since my iPod mini is out-of-commission until I can get the opportunity to visit the Apple “Genius” bar, I’d love to win a Zune.
The website gives the ability to enter your mobile phone # and receive a text […]

By Jason Bean -- 3 comments

January 2nd, 2007

2006 Year in Review - Top 10 Posts from 2006

If you’re new to visiting the Microsoft Weblog in 2007, WELCOME! In looking back over the past year on the Microsoft Weblog, I decided that no retrospective is worthy without a Top 10. So, the following are the Top 10 Posts from 2006 based on viewed numbers for the year:

Windows Mobile 5.0 and ActiveSync 4.1 […]

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May 31st, 2006

Get “IT” in mBay

The latest rumors are that Microsoft is interested in purchasing eBay to beef up it’s MSN franchise.
“If Microsoft purchases eBay, it would certainly invigorate MSN and create a stronger community due to the growing use of Skype and PayPal,” she said. “A dramatic gesture of this sort is needed to achieve the promise of MSN […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments