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Spanish Windows Live Hotmail presentation for Bloggers!

A big shout out go’s to all bloggers residing in Spain! This Thursday the 26th of April at 10am in the morning, the Spanish Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail Team will be holding a Breakfast and Windows Live Hotmail presentation for bloggers. But to clarify this will not be the Spanish launch of Windows Live Homail, just a presentation to let all those attending know about the

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SES NY Keynote Video: Windows Live Chief Steve Berkowitz

The following video is an excerpt from the 2007 Search Engine Strategies Keynote discussion between Danny Sullivan and Windows Live Chief, Steve Berkowitz. In this excerpt Steve Berkowitz explains that “it is not ever satisfactory not to be number one” in the search engine industry. He further explains that Microsoft’s first goal is to reach critical mass from an advertising

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Windows Live Spaces Updates for April 2007

The Windows Live Spaces Team has not only today released a ton of new feautues for Windows Live Spaces but has also supplled my pals over at LiveSide with some interesting stats. As of right now, the service is now available in 51 countries in 25 languages, there have been 93 million spaces created since Spaces was released, and more than

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Yahoo! rolls out Upcoming.org 2.0

Great News for all you Upcoming.org fans, today the Yahoo Search Blog announced the release of Upcoming.org 2.0 which includes some additional changes and upgrades to Upcoming, including the integration of Flickr and the transition of Upcoming.org onto the Signle Sign in Yahoo! Local platform. And this time Yahoo! seems to have sweeten the deal with a free offer of a T-shirt.

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University of Pennsylvania Adopts Windows Live @ edu

Just noticed a press release from The University of Pennsylvania, stating that they have partnered with Microsoft to adopt the Windows Live @ edu programme to enhance the communications platform it offers to many of its students So from the beginning of the fall semester, students in the School of Arts and Sciences and the Wharton School will have the

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Omniture to Measure Impact of Microsoft’s i’m Initiative

Omniture, Inc. a leading provider of online business optimization software, yesterday announced it will work with Microsoft on its new Windows Live Messenger i’m Initiative. Every time a customer has a conversation using i’m, Microsoft shares a portion of the program’s advertising revenue with the participating i’m Initiative organization of his or her choice — creating a simple and effective way

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Windows Vista ‘Ease of Access’ Backdoor Logon

Follwing my recent post about removing or disabling the Ease of Access Icon, located in the lower left hand corner of the Windows Vista login screen. I just found an article titled “Windows Vista – Backdoor Logon” which exlains to you a method which you can use to exploit the ‘Ease of Access’ menu at the bottom of a regular Windows

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Disabling Ease of Access on the Windows Vista login screen

It looks like quite a few people out there (here, here and here) would like to know how to go about removing or disabling the Ease of Access Icon which is located in the lower left hand corner of the Windows Vista login screen as you first boot up to Windows Vista or when you lock the screen. Well it looks like a

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Windows Live Hotmail launches in Spain the 25th of April!

In a weeks time, the 25th of April to be exact, Microsoft will finally launch Windows Live Hotmail in Spain (España). This exact date of when Windows Live Hotmail will launch in Spain (España) comes from a recent press inviatation that was sent out. In it also states “actualmente hay más de 9 millones de cuentas activas de Hotmail en España.” which

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Windows Home Server CTP Broadly Released

Great news! Today the Microsoft Windows Home Server Team are broadly rolling out a new test build of Windows Home Server – a Community Technology Preview (CTP). The Windows Home Server CTP (build 06.00.1371) provides a wide range of code fixes, user interface improvements and feature enhancements, such as: A more complete and simplified “out of box” experience, including an easy, 7-step