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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Windows Live Beta Tester Community on Microsoft Connect

Just a minute ago or so I was just loading up the Microsoft Connect website to submit a suggestion for the Windows Live Mail Desktop as I’m now a managed beta tester and well as I was looking around I thought I would check to see if any new beta programs had been added, I had only checked about half

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Will Blahblahbox be the next big social networking site?

I haven’t blogged about any social networking sites for quite a while now, well I guess except Ziki which I finally blogged about not long ago after I was testing it for a month, and if you haven’t tried Ziki yet I recommend you do because it’s pretty cool. Anyway as I was saying, I haven’t blogged about any social

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What is live.com and what is the team trying to accomplish!

So some people have been asking me lately what is live.com, what’s new, what can it do that other services can’t, were is Microsoft hoping to go with Live.com and all it’s related services. Well let me help you all out a little on these questions by providing you with an extract from a blog post titled Improving Live.com which

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Microsoft’s Mobile Operating Systems Crossbow and Photon

Microsoft is now starting to share more details about its next generation of mobile operating systems. The company is planning to deliver the next version of its Windows Mobile platform, code-named Crossbow, to providers by the end of this year. And it is going to follow up one year later with a refreshed Windows Mobile release, code-named Photon. Via: Microsoft

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Windows Live Dinner at Gabrielle’s in London

Ok well I’m now safely back home after attending an informal Windows Live Dinner at Gabrielle’s last night in London, this event was organised and paid for by heaven.fr, an online marketing and communication agency for MSN Europe. I wanted to mention that heaven.fr paid for this because I think it was really great of them to do this, especially considering