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By - Darren Straight

Windows Live Messenger 8 Beta available as public download

Microsoft today announced that the new Windows Live Messenger Beta is now available broadly to the public for download at the Windows Live Ideas Web site. But hasn’t it already been available as a public download for some while now, well yes and no because the download was public but you still needed an invite but now you don’t need

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Office Live Beta Refresh!

The Office Live Beta team have just completed a “Refresh” of their Beta of Office Live and have posted a team blog post detailing what’s new: Essentials now fully supports Outlook Connector Essentials inboxes now have email, contacts, and calendar access enabled for Microsoft Office Outlook connector.  What is that you say?  Outlook Connector (download it here if you have

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Share Your OPML has launched

Web logging pioneer Dave Winer has now launched his new project called Share Your OPML, a Web site dedicated to gathering blog subscription lists for sharing. The site is designed around a top 100 list of blogs and news sites chosen by the people participating in Share Your OPML. To participate all people need to do is create a membership

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Last American Titanic Survivor Dies at the age of 99

Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic has now died at the age of 99, Asplund was the last Titanic survivor with actual memories of the sinking so with her passing away many memories from that night will be taken with her as she never really spoke much to the public about the sinking.Via:

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Interview with Sanaz Ahari from the Live.com team

Chirs overd over at LiveSide.net has now posted his first of several interviews that were recorded on Friday, this Interview is with Sanaz Ahari from the Live.com team and should hopefully give you some insight into where live.com is heading. 0.00 Introduction 0.30 Most recent update summary 2.45 What the Live.com team’s priorities are 4.47 Sanaz’s favorite feature 5.55 How Live.com will complete Windows Live

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The plan for the first Britblog Blogmeet

Following up on Mark Sweeting’s recent post about a Britblog blogmeet where he asked us what date and location would be good, we now have an official date and location, that being Sunday the 21st of May probably at The Marquess of Anglesey near Covent Garden. Well we’ve settled on Sunday, 21st of May for the blogmeet. I’ll try and

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Windows Live Session UK/2 Coming soon!

Following my recent attendance to the first ever Windows Live Session here in the UK and my more recent attendance at the Windows Live Dinner meet up in London organised by heaven I have now been invited by MSN UK to the second Windows Live Session held in London on the 16th of May 2006. For this second Windows Live

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Microsoft Expression Web Designer Video Demo

I’ve been using Microsoft’s Expression Web Designer (EWD) CTP1 (Community Technology Preview 1) for a little while now and though I would love to show you some images of it unfortunately I cant as I’ve agreed to a Microsoft Non-disclosure Agreement (NDA) meaning I cant disclose anything that’s not already public until the public beta. But that’s fine because what

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More information on Windows Live QnA at new team blog!

The Windows Live QnA Team has now posted some more information on Windows Live QnA at their new team blog which, it’s great to finally see some news from the actual team instead of leaving us more or less in the dark! 😉 A little background… Once upon a time, there was an intern at Microsoft who had an idea

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Windows Live Mail Beta Milestone 6 (M6) is coming soon

Windows Live Mail Beta Milestone 6 (M6) will soon be coming to all beta testers, with this new release we can hope to see a lot of improvements some of which are listed below, notice the first one is better firefox support, this should keep a lot of you happy! Firefox support We’ve been saying for awhile that we would