Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Windows Live Mail M7 Preview

The New Windows Live Mail M7 release is almost here, but what can we expect? Well heres some info from the Windows Live Mail Team Blog Checkboxes You will now be able to select messages the same way you used to in Hotmail. But don’t worry the option to select multiple messages using the shift-click or control-click will still be available

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Frucall an Online Comparison Shopping site for Mobiles

Ever needed to find the comparison price of an item while shopping, but in that moment in time you don’t have access to a computer or internet connection to use services like Windows Live Product Search or Kelkoo.co.uk, the answer is probably yes as we always want to try and get the best deal when out shopping. So that’s why you can now

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Unofficial Windows Live Messenger FAQs v2

I don’t think I’ve ever talked about Scøtt’s Unofficial Windows Live Messenger FAQ Site here before so I might as well now as I’ve juet posted about his update on LiveSide.net. I really think that Scøtt’s done a great Job at putting this Windows Live Messenger FAQ Site together as the Messenger Contact List idea is a really cool and

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Help Celebrate Messenger’s 7th Birthday

MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger will be 7 years old next Saturday the 22nd of July 2006. So the Windows Live Messenger Team would like you’re help in celebrating it’s 7th Birthday by spreading the word to the world that it’s Messenger’s 7th Birthday soon. There’s many ways that you can spread the word, and it will be intriguing to see

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Microsoft withdraws Windows Private Folders

Following an outcry from corporate customers, Microsoft is removing an add-on feature to Windows that allowed users to create password-protected folders. The feature was introduced as a free download last week. Almost immediately, people raised questions over how businesses would grapple with the ability of individual workers to encrypt their data. “Private Folder 1.0 was designed as a benefit for

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Microsoft Silicon Valley Product and Career Open House 2006

Microsoft Silicon Valley is hosting a Product and Career Open House for 2006 to feature products and career opportunities in Silicon Valley, so if you’re looking to get into any of the following sections: Microsoft TV Macintosh Business Unit TV Services Live Meeting Windows Live Mail PowerPoint Windows Live Search Operations Xbox Hardware I would like to recommend that you

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The World’s Largest IM Network for May 2006

So you may have already heard that MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger is the World’s Largest IM (Instant Messaging) Network for May 2006, but have you actually seen the some of the stats from ComScore’s May 2006 Report where it reports MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger has 204m subscribers, Yahoo! Messenger 78m, AIM 34m and ICQ 33.9m. Well if not here’s a

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Windows Live Expo has launched out of Beta in the US

I was away for two days this week so I didn’t have a chance to blog about this up until now, but it seems like Windows Live Expo has now launched out of Beta in the US and at the same time is going into Beta internally in the UK. This new release includes some of the following exciting features:

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Virtual PC 2004 Is Now Free!

Not long ago Microsoft made Virtual Server 2005 R2 Free for Download, but as most people wanted to try Virtual PC instead, they have now made Virtual PC 2004 Free for Download as well. But it dosent stop there because in 2007 Microsoft will also be releasing Virtual PC 2007 for free along with support for Microsoft Windows Vista. So why not