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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Windows Live Button to let your visitors add your feed to Live.com

Great news for those of you who have been wanting an add this feed to live.com button, as the team have now released one, I would have posted this earlier but I’ve been out all day and have only just got back so if you’ve already seen this somewhere else, then I hope you’ve tried it out and love it,

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Microsoft Office 2007 Falls Behind Schedule

So both Microsoft-Watch and Cnet News are reporting that Microsoft Office 2007 has falled behind schedule. As it will now be delivered later in the year along with Windows Vista. But the question I guess now is, will this delay Windows Vistas schedule to be available for January 2007, will Windows Vistas now sleep again another year? Well here’s what Mary Jo has to say: On June 29,

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Discover Windows Live Spaces the future of MSN Spaces!

Are you ready for Windows Live Spaces the next generation of MSN Spaces, well you better be, because it’s getting closer than ever as you can see from demonstration sites like this one which are intended to show you what Windows Live Spaces will offer us in terms of features when it goes live very soon! Update: Could this be what the

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Windows Live Custom Domains V1 Released

Windows Live Custom Domains V1 is now released out of Beta, but what does Windows Live Custom Domains do for you, well it provides you with free hosted e-mail from Microsoft for your own domain name. Here are some of the enhancements and features Windows Live Custom Domains offer you: E-mail accounts for everyone. Create an unlimited number of accounts in

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Farecast goes into public beta!

Farecast the airline fare prediction tool is launched in public beta today, enabling travelers to leverage more than 60 billion records of past airfare prices to predict whether prices will rise or fall over the next 7 days. The beta still only covers flights departing from Seattle and Boston, but the company plans to roll out US-wide coverage through the end of

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Windows Live Spaces coming July 15?

Last week the world heard that the much anticipated MSN Spaces update to Windows Live Spaces would be coming soon but with this news came no definitive date, and as of yet we still don’t have a definitive date for the Windows Live Spaces release. However rumor has it that on the 15th of July 2006 we will see MSN

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Windows Live Insider Club USB Memory Stick

Remember the Windows Live Insider Club promotion site for the UK? That offerd 50.000 sets of free Windows Live contact cards, 3000 USB memory sticks (200 available per week), tickets to a World Cup Football screening in London (including dinner & disco afterwards) and VIP tickets for the Wimbledon finals (including champagne & strawberries). Well I just got my Windows

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Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man’s Chest Webcast

Join MSN and Dish Diva for the exclusive Webcast of the premiere of “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” and opening of the enhanced “Pirates of the Caribbean” attraction at Disneyland Resort. See Johnny, Keira and Orlando walk the red carpet and much more. Click here to watch the replay!