Save time by creating an Excel workbook workspace

If you’re like most of us, you probably work with the same few workbooks every day. You might work with them as a group or separately, but you open these files, individually, most… Read More →

Taking a glimpse at the future of SkyDrive (from their blog post)

Over at the official Inside Windows Live team blog, Omar Shahine and Mike Torres, Group Program Managers for SkyDrive, recently made a blog post analysing some of the stats of the current competitive… Read More →

Windows Live Service Status page gets an update, now tracking Live ID and Family Safety

As part of the latest SkyDrive update today, as we predicted earlier, the rest of Windows Live web services received an update too, up to Wave 5 M2 (version 16.2). As part of… Read More →

Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion; creates new business division

The rumors were right. Microsoft announced on May 10 that it bought Skype, an Internet communications vendor, for $8.5 billion. Instead of trying to mash Skype into an existing Microsoft business division, the… Read More →

What Comeing with Windows 8?

When Will Windows 8 be Released? According to the article, Microsoft currently plans to ship Windows 8 by mid-2012; thus, the first beta should be released by mid-2011 and public beta should follow… Read More →

Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Pack Released

With the retail availability of Office 2010 just a couple of days ago Microsoft has released the official and final filter pack which has been updated to include the new file formats in… Read More →

Office 2013 details surface on the web

Hot on the heels of the official worldwide release of Office 2010 yesterday, details have surfaced on the next version of the award winning suite – Office 15, or its likely name, Office… Read More →

More Hotmail Changes with Windows Live Wave 4

The most recent official voice from Microsoft is Brian Hall. He is the General Manager of the Windows Live Business Group and in a recent Windows Team Blog post he mentioned three features… Read More →

Single-use Code in Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4

One of the features of the Wave 4 version of Windows Live Hotmail is the Single-use Code feature. This is a code you can use in place of your password when your at… Read More →

Microsoft’s Office Web Apps go Live

Anyone keeping up with Microsoft Office news in the past year knows about Office Web Apps. With Office 2010, Microsoft has promised the world a free version of its world dominating office productivity… Read More →

Windows Live Hotmail Changes Coming

More update information is coming from Microsoft and this time it is in the form of an email from Dick Craddock who is the Microsoft Program Manager for the Hotmail Partner Group. This… Read More →

Complete List of Keyboard Shortcuts for Window Live Hotmail

Windows Live Hotmail is the email service from Microsoft and it is the most popular email service used all over the world. Keyboard shortcuts are always handy as they helps you to be… Read More →

ABUSE PAGE OF OUR HOLY PROPHET MUHAMMAD (S.A.A.W)

Islamabad: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has directed all concerned operators in Pakistan to block website www.facebook.com till further orders. These directions have been issued in compliance with the directions issued by Ministry of… Read More →

Facebook opens Chat to XMPP: Will Windows Live Messenger join in?

Facebook opened up Facebook Chat to 3rd party clients using the XMPP/Jabber protocol. While this is good news for users of Pidgin, which can access both Windows Live Messenger and XMPP Clients, Windows… Read More →

WINDOWS 8 “Mind Blowing” and “Completely Different”?

This week, several Microsoft employees took the liberty of describing Windows 8 for us, without actually describing Windows 8 for us. An MSDN blog titled, “Whats in store for the next Windows,” which… Read More →

Movie Maker: YouTube publishing issue now resolved

It came to our attention late last week that a change was made on YouTube.com resulting in a failure to publish movies directly from Windows Live Movie Maker.  The change was minor and… Read More →

Windows Live Engineering Blog Gets Rolling

While we took a little time off for the holidays (and moved web hosts), we didn’t want to miss commenting on Inside Windows Live, the new Windows Live engineering blog over at the… Read More →

Protecting you PC using Windows built in Features and Software

Often we find our computers to be infected with virus and malware.   We believe we need to buy and install expensive anti virus and internet security software programs. Yes, I do agree it’s… Read More →

How To Fix – “Windows Live Writer requires the installation of the .NET Framework” Error .

In an unavoidable circumstance, I had to rebuild Windows Vista OS today.  After rebuilding the OS I noticed the recent Technology Preview of Windows Live Writer is no more part of my Start… Read More →

How to Watermark Images Using Windows Live Writer

Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer is the best free application for blogging. The ease at which one can blog with Windows Live Writer is amazing as we get all the tools required for composing… Read More →