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By - Darren Straight

Philips VOIP 433 Dual Phone for Windows Live Messenger

The Philips VOIP 433 Dual Phone for Windows Live Messenger that I won at the second Windows Live Session last month was delivered today, and I have to agree with what Robert Gale has already said about it in a blog post he made a couple of days ago, that being that it’s really good. It’s easy to install and ties

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Messenger Plus! Live has been released

Messenger Plus! Live has now been released, shame the servers are having some difficulties to keep up with the amount of people trying to connect though: Messenger Plus! Live has finally been released at its new home: msgpluslive.net. Unfortunately, because of the incredible number of people trying to access the new site, the servers are having some difficulties to keep

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Windows Live Spaces is coming soon!

According to the MSN Spaces Team Blog, Windows Live Spaces is coming soon with some exciting new stuff including the Friends Explorer a new social networking too integrated with and accessible through Windows Live Messenger, which will enable you and your friends to explore others and create new friendships. Check out the full Team Blog post here and/or discuss this at

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Windows Live QnA Beta on the way!

The Windows Live QnA Beta can’t be to far away now, as the Windows Live QnA Beta Team have sent out the following email to people who signed up to beta test Windows Live QnA: Thanks for signing up to try the Windows Live QnA Beta. We’ve had a lot of people sign up to try QnA. So please bear

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MSN Spaces Live Sessions competitions have now started!

Great news for you music artists and fans out there, the MSN Spaces Live Sessions Artists and Fans competition has now started so you can now go ahead and register for your chance to win some fantastic prizes! MSN Spaces Live Sessions is the new place to find new breaking music. We have many unsigned artists you can listen to right now.

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New copyright licensing tool for Office

Today the Office Team have released a new copyright licensing add-on tool for Office which helps businesses and individuals to protect their IP in documents. This tool will make it easier for authors using Office to select a Creative Commons license for their creative works. We have partnered with Creative Commons who are a non-profit org promoting flexible copyright licenses for

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Has anybody tried OpenStreetMap?

If not then you might like to try it, OpenStreetMap is a map project aimed at creating and providing free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. They do this by allowing users to contribute anywhere from the world by editing the world map with an online editing interface. The project was started because most maps

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New Windows Live Custom Domains Release is Live!

The Windows Live Custom Domains team have now released a new Windows Live Custom Domains release update with the following major highlights: New UI (user interface) making it easier than ever to navigate around. New feature called Open Membership which will allow you to create e-mail accounts in your domain directly from your website. Improved error messages and added contextual

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Windows Live Messenger updated to build 8.0.0792

The Windows Live Messenger Team has just released a small update for Windows Live Messenger, brining the build version now 8.0.0792. Download Update, More languages, thanks to mess.be: >> Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0792 – English >> Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0792 – Arabic >> Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0792 – Turkish >> Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0792 – Spanish >> Windows Live Messenger