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By - Darren Straight

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