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By - Darren Straight

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!

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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