Windows Live Folders beta - more info
The folks over at LiveSide have put up and detailed walkthrough of Microsoft's latest Live product, Windows Live Folders.
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15.5.2007 Windows Live Folders beta expands tomorrow
Hot off the press is an email sent to some of those who signed up for the Windows Live Folders beta and don't yet have access.
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1.8.2007 Windows Live Mail, Live Writer & Messenger 8.5 Beta
Microsoft has announced the availability of 3 Windows Live products today, all of which are beta.
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31.5.2007 Windows Live Mail 5 is Live
Well, almost. It's coming very soon, we promise. But for those who can't wait, here's a sneak peak at all the new features for Windows Live Mail Beta "M5" (M5 is geek speak for Milestone 5).
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1.3.2006 Windows Live Mail M6 is here
They are currently putting up the new login page at mail.live.com, but you can log in via hotmail.com as usual.
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16.5.2006 Windows Live Mail M9
As we were expected, Windows Live Mail was upgraded to M9 (Milestone 9) last night.
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24.1.2007 Windows Live Mail Beta Refreshed
Microsoft on Wednesday began rolling out Milestone 4 of its new Windows Live Mail beta, formerly known by the code-name Kahuna. The update adds support for Web browsers beyond IE6 and implements a number of new features such as spell checking and resizable window panes.
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1.12.2005 E-Mail About Windows Live Messenger Really A Trojan
Helsinki-based F-Secure told users to ignore instant messages with the subject head "MSN Messenger 8 Working BETA" that go on to claim that "Messenger 8 BETA has been leaked!"
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28.12.2005 Sneak into the Windows Live Mail Beta
Just before the end of 2005, a simple trick was discovered that turns your Hotmail into the Windows Live Mail Beta without the need of an official invitation. The "exploit", which allows almost everyone to actually test and use Microsoft's nextgen e-mail service, has been posted all over the web and has still not been fixed yet.
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5.1.2006 Windows Live Mail M6 Coming Soon
The Live Mail Team gave us a pretty extensive update for Windows Live Mail as they near releasing Milestone 6 (M6) to Beta Testers.
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6.5.2006 Sign up for Windows Live Mail Beta
Fast and simple e-mail that makes it easy to read, send and organize your messages. The ?beta? part means it?s a work in progress, so we need your input to make sure it?s built right.
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6.5.2006 New Windows Live E-mail addresses Coming Soon!
After months of wait and an endless loop of questions to Microsoft, the company finally decided what e-mail addresses it will use for future Windows Live ID accounts.
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15.6.2006 The Future of Windows Live Mail Desktop
There hasn't been much news on Windows Live Mail desktop since 2006, with a minor update being released in February.
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13.3.2007 Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta Released
Microsoft confirmed Wednesday that it has released the Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta to select beta testers and partners.
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30.3.2006 Microsoft Refreshes Windows Live Mail Beta
Windows Live Mail, the successor to Hotmail currently in limited beta testing, was given a facelift Tuesday in what Microsoft calls the "M6" release of the service. Notable additions include support for Firefox, mail signatures and vastly improved performance.
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17.5.2006 New Windows Live Mail Desktop Feature Revealed
Using their usual "More Than Mail" blog, the Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta team revealed yet another feature of it, along with a screenshot of a recent build.
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3.6.2006 New Build of Windows Live Mail Desktop Released
In this new build you’ll see some major improvements! Right off the bat,
the most noticeable change will likely be the updates we’ve made to our User
Interface.
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18.8.2006 Windows Live Mail Desktop Build 1172
The Windows Live Mail Desktop team has just announced yet another refresh of the increasingly popular mail reading application. This is the first refresh in over a month, and brings an outstanding number of improvements.
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17.11.2006 Open Beta Invitation for Windows Live Mail Desktop
We’ve finally done it! Our ‘little’ project to bring you the next generation consumer mail application is going massively public. As of today (actually we slipped it out quietly last week or so) we are instituting a hassle-free sign up for the Mail Desktop beta.
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27.7.2006 Windows Live Mail 2009 14.0.8089.0726 Update Detailed
The past week, Microsoft released a collection of updates for all the clients under the Windows Live Essentials brand umbrella but failed to provide details on what the refreshes brought to the table.
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24.8.2009 Hide Folders XP 2.7 Beta 2
Hide Folders XP is a security tool for hiding your sensitive folders from other users.
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20.1.2007 Exchange Server "12" and Public Folders
A frequent topic of discussion with customers is the future of Public Folders, thus I think it would be good to capture that discussion on our blog.
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21.2.2006 Microsoft Personal Folders Backup (PST)
The Personal Folders Backup download creates backup copies of your .PST files at regular intervals, in Outlook 2002 and later versions, making it easy to keep all of your Outlook folders safely backed up.
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8.5.2008 Recover Deleted Files or Folders in Windows Vista
The title of this article explains it all! DataRecovery is freeware and written by TOKIWA(a japanese) to undelete accidentally deleted files even from recycle bin.
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29.4.2007 Spy The Spy - Monitor Folders For File Changes And Additions
I was always puzzled that Microsoft did not integrate a software into Windows that would monitor specific folders for file changes and list the changes in a table to provide the user with means to analyze those changes.
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14.10.2008 Who's reading your mail?
Almost 450,000 requests were made to monitor people’s telephone calls, e-mails and post by secret agencies and other authorised bodies in just over a year, the spying watchdog said yesterday.
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21.2.2007 Microsoft's Not the Only One Doing Mobile Mail
The same day the beta invites started going out for Windows Live Mail Mobile,
Google launched Gmail Mobile. So far, Gmail Mobile is supporting relatively few cell phones and PDAs and only those in the U.S.. But wider coverage is coming soon, Google claims. And you can get
Gmail Mobile on your Blackberry, too. And speaking of Google, it's sounding like Microsoft's nemesis bested Microsoft in the contest for whose search engine would power Google search, going forward. As part of that deal,
Google reportedly will invest $1 billion in AOL, in exchange for a five percent stake.
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Microsoft Mail Beta Signup
We think you're going to really like the clean new look and other features -- at least we hope so! We need your feedback to make sure we are doing this thing right.
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Microsoft's Web Mail Gets Overhaul
The Hotmail millions (Microsoft reports 200 million users) know and perhaps love could be replaced. For the last seven months, Microsoft has been beta testing a radically different Web mail client, one that makes Hotmail's largely standard HTML interface look like yesterday's news. Kahuna supports drag and drop, right-clicking, multi-select and, in general, a much more Outlook-like look and feel.
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New Web Mail: More Polished, Powerful
Microsoft and Yahoo are poised to make Web-based e-mail more powerful than ever with updates that bring a desktop-style interface to their respective Web mail offerings. We tested betas (currently invitation-only) of Windows Live Mail and Yahoo Mail, and also looked at an open-source newcomer called Zimbra. All three apps use an increasingly popular programming technique called Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) to improve on standard Web mail and even Google's Gmail.
microsoft - comments - 27.11.2005
Windows Live Folders and Photo Gallery Now Available
Well we just got the email,
and Windows Live Folders and
Windows Live Photo Gallery are
now available if you have been
invited. You should have
received an invitation to
"Windows Live Beta" a few
weeks ago, and if you
completed that, you're in!
Make sure to sign up for
Folders as early as possible:
We have
limited availability for
Windows Live Folders, so make
sure you sign up between the
hours of 10:00am and 4:00pm
PST on Wednesday, June 27th.
Also, Live Folders is
available in the United States
only at this time. You will
not be able to access the Live
Folders site if you are
outside the Unites States.
Although the Windows
Live Photo Gallery beta is a
private beta, Windows Live
folders is now up at http://folde
rs.live.com (only in the
US) for a limited beta. (via
Dan
Crevier's MSDN Blog)
winbeta.org - 27.06.2007
Windows Live Strategy Inches Forward, Slowly
Microsoft is continuing to
flesh out its Windows Live
strategy, on Wednesday
releasing beta versions of
Windows Live Photo Gallery and
Windows Live Folders. The
additions will join Windows
Live Mail Desktop, Windows
Live Writer, and a number of
other applications as part of
the Windows Live Suite...
betanews.com - 28.06.2007
Windows Live Folders beta - more info
The folks over at LiveSide
have put up and detailed
walkthrough of Microsoft's
latest Live product, Windows
Live Folders.
Here's a snip:
Windows Live Folders is
(sic) not a difficult to use
service, folder creation is
straightforward, as it the
uploading of files. Microsoft
is aiming Windows Live Folders
towards a large as market as
possible, so the basic
procedures need to be simple
to promote adoption amongst
the less tech-savy. The use of
ajax to create new folders is
nice, though the rest of the
site could do with a little
too. As we've seen with
Windows Live Hotmail though,
too much of a good thing can
be bad.
neowin.net - 15.05.2007
Microsoft tees up LiveDrive hosted-storage service
For more than two
years, there've been tips
circulating that Microsoft was
readying an online storage
service, code-named LiveDrive.
Finally, the service, part of
Microsoft's hosted consumer
storage offering — Windows
Live Folders — is about to
go to beta, according to
http://www.liveside.net/blogs/
main/archive/2007/05/12/live-d
rive-is-almost-here-windows-li
ve-folders-beta.aspx>LiveSide.
net.
Microsoft's positioning
slogan for Live Folders:
"Password-protected online
file storage. Always available
where you need it."
LiveSide links to the
Windows Live Folders beta
http://folders.live.com/>home
page (not sure how long this
link will keep working, so
visit early and often).
According to that page,
Microsoft is planning to allow
users to store up to 500 MB
(initially) worth of personal,
shared and public files in the
cloud. ..
winbeta.org - 13.05.2007
Windows Live Folders Now 'SkyDrive'
Microsoft has renamed its
online storage service from
Windows Live Folders to
Windows Live SkyDrive,
concurrently adding support
for those in the United
Kingdom and India. The
"SkyDrive" name is
designed to indicate that
stored files exist in the
"cloud" of the
Internet...
betanews.com - 10.08.2007
Windows Live Sync released for Windows- and Mac
Windows Live Sync, the replacement for the older Windows Live FolderShare service, is now available, for both Windows and Mac OS X users. Users
upgrading from FolderShare only have a few steps to follow in order to transition to the new service:
- Install the software on each of
your computers that previously ran FolderShare so Sync can automatically reconnect your synchronized folders.
- To keep sharing your
synchronized folders, you'll need to send your pals a new invitation. Don't worry if they don't have a Windows Live ID; we'll help them get set up
using their preferred e-mail address.
- Your synchronized folders will be set to automatically sync after migrating. If you'd prefer to sync on
demand, just visit the Sync website to adjust that.
So, what's new?
- Higher file limits—up to 20 synchronized folders (formerly
known as libraries) with up to 20,000 files in each one.
- Integration with Windows Live ID.
- Integration with the Recycle Bin.
-
Unicode support.
- More languages for Windows (46 in all).
- And lots of bug fixes.
jcxp.net - 13.12.2008
Live Folders To Support Image Previews
Just a small tidbit
found over at the Live Folders
Team Blog, they have
announced that the next
release of Live Folders will
include thumbnails of any
pictures that are in your
folders.
Currently
when you have a folder open
that contains pictures you
will see the following:
winbeta.org - 16.07.2007
Windows Live Folders not final name for cloud storage service - Windows Live Skydrive instead?
Some things just seem to keep
reappearing like a bad penny,
and for Windows Live its
undoubtedly the naming
strategy. Since the Folders
beta was expanded earlier this
week, the login page has referenced
the service as Windows
Live Skydrive. As we've
talked about previously,
Skydrive was the codename for
the cloud storage service
while it was in initial
development. We managed to get
the following official
comment:śWindows Live
Folders has always been a
placeholder name only and will
not be the final name of the
service when it ultimately
launches. We are not able to
publicly confirm any name
beyond Windows Live Folders at
this time; however, Windows
Live Folders is in beta, and
in addition to gathering input
and making changes to the
service, Microsoft will update
the name as well.ť
So will
Skydrive be the final name or
not? It definitely ranks along
the new "cool" names of
Popfly and Silverlight,
however it seem an unusual
step to use a codename for a
final product name. Even more
so when you consider the
current Senior Vice President
for Windows and Windows Live
allegedly dislikes codenames,
but lets not start Long
Zheng bashing him again.
To wrap
it all off, yes the domain http://skydr
ive.live.com/ has now
started working.
winbeta.org - 04.08.2007
Live Mail Desktop Makes Beta
Debut
Microsoft has begun a limited
beta test of its upcoming
Windows Live Mail Desktop,
BetaNews has learned. The
offering is intended to
provide users of Windows Live
Mail and Hotmail with
client-side access to e-mail
services. Such a feature was
previously only available to
paid subscribers...
betanews.com - 30.03.2006
Microsoft Upgrades Windows Live Mail
Although it has still yet to
replace the aging Hotmail
system, Microsoft's new,
AJAX-enabled Windows Live Mail
service received a minor
upgrade yesterday, reaching
Milestone 9. The M9 version of
Live Mail brings a number of
new features, including full
compatibility with Firefox
2.0...
betanews.com - 24.01.2007
Windows Live Mail Public Beta
A new build of Windows Live
Mail was released today for
public testing. The build
number is 12.0.1184.0517. This
build is available in English,
German, Spanish, French,
Japanese, and Chinese.
The new
Build features a completely
revamped design. Now lacking
the "Flair" design as seen
in other Live products. This
build takes on more of a
Windows Mail style user
interface.
Windows Live Mail is a
desktop mail application
similar to Outlook Express.
Its features include
management of multiple Windows
Live Hotmail accounts,
management of RSS feeds, and a
newsgroup viewer.
Note that if your
run into problems while
installing the new build on
Windows Vista, make sure to
uninstall the previous Windows
Live Messenger leak, and
delete both the
"WLInstaller" and
"WindowsLiveInstaller"
folders found in
C:ProgramData.
jcxp.net - 31.05.2007
Outlook 2007/2003/2002 Add-in: Personal Folders Backup
Backing up your Microsoft Outlook information is quicker and easier with the Personal Folders Backup feature. Personal Folders Backup creates backup
copies of your .PST files at regular intervals, in Outlook 2002 and later versions, making it easy to keep all of your Outlook folders safely backed
up.
With Personal Folders Backup, you can choose which of your .PST files you wish to back up, and how often you wish to back
them up.
Each .PST file contains all of your Outlook folders, including the Inbox, Calendar, and Contacts. You can have a single
.PST file (usually called "Internet Folders" or "Personal Folders" in your Folder List), but you might also have an additional .PST file that you
use for archiving ("Archiving Folders"). Personal Folders Backup lets you back up any or all of these .PST files.
winbeta.org - 08.05.2008
Chrome masks as Safari to fool Windows Live Mail
According to Google's Chrome Releases blog, Chrome-users no longer need to go out of their way to make Windows Live Mail/Hotmail work. In
addition to providing important security updates, Google's most recent version of Chrome--1.0.154.46--makes it easy for followers to use Windows
Live Mail. For some reason, Windows Live Mail does not work properly on Chrome, unless it thinks it is some other browser, such as Apple's Safari.
Previously, Chrome-users who had wanted to be able to use Windows Live Mail would have to switch the user-agent manually, but now the browser will
identify itself properly as "Chrome" for most normal sites but as "Safari" for URLs ending with mail.live.com.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 01.02.2009
Windows Live Mail sign-in UI
Updated
The sign-in site for Windows
Live Mail has been updated to
the new Live ID
interface.
As
Trevin stated on his blog, in
order to see the new
interface, you must be a Live
Mail user and sign in through
mail.live.com instead of
hotmail.com. This sign-in site
is also compatible with the
Windows Live Sign-in
Assistant.
Also, I just found out that
@live.com e-mail addresses are
coming. If you go to
ideas.live.com, and scroll
down to Windows Live Mail
Desktop Beta, click Get
Updates, and it mentions on
the following page, "You'll
need an MSN, MSN Hotmail,
Live.com e-mail address to use
this service."
jcxp.net - 03.06.2006
Yahoo Adds RSS Feeds into Web
Mail
Taking a different approach
than Google, which launched a
separate Web RSS reader last
month, Yahoo on Wednesday
rolled out an update to its
Yahoo! Mail Beta that
integrates RSS feeds directly
below e-mail folders. Feeds
can be synched from My Yahoo!
or added manually...
betanews.com - 30.11.2005
Windows Live SkyDrive gets 1GB of storage
Today, Windows Live SkyDrive has received some updates to the service - including everyone now having 1GB of storage. Thats double what was previously
there. Along with increased storage, the SkyDrive Team has included a few more things worth taking note of:
RSS Feeds on Public Folders:
Users can now subscribe to an RSS feed for their Public folders. This allows folks to keep track of each others public files and stay up-to-date with
what is uploaded. You can subscribe to our Windows Vista Team Blogs Public SkyDrive folder here.
See who uploaded a file: you can now check
out and see who has uploaded specific files to your shared folders in SkyDrive. I have quite a few shared folders which are shared out to large
groups of friends - it is great to be able to see which files were uploaded by whom.
Add a contact directly within SkyDrive: you can now
add a friend via Windows Live SkyDrive instead of having to go to Windows Live Messenger or Windows Live Hotmail.
Expect to see fixes and
tweaks across the board. Youll also notice that the UI around to Windows Live header has also been tweaked to include easy access to Windows Live
Spaces (such as your Friends List and Photos).
neowin.net - 12.10.2007
Windows Live Mail Now 'Live Hotmail'
In an attempt to allay
confusion over its new
AJAX-enabled webmail system,
Microsoft said Thursday that
Windows Live Mail was being
renamed to Windows Live
Hotmail. The decision follows
a recent switch to keep the
classic Hotmail interface for
existing users...
betanews.com - 09.02.2007
Microsofts renamed Windows Live SkyDrive service gets a refresh
As LiveSide.net predicted,
Microsoft has, indeed, decided
to dump the śWindows Live
Foldersť branding and go with
Windows Live SkyDrive for its
cloud-storage service that is
in beta test.
SkyDrive was one of the
codenames Microsoft used for
its storage service during its
development. (Microsoft is
saying that LiveDrive also was
a codename for the same
service and is not something
distinct, as opposed to recent
Microsoft information which
indicated that LiveDrive and
SkyDrive were not one and the
same.) When the company
announced the initial beta of
the cloud-storage service, it
changed the name to śWindows
Live Folders.ť Now Microsoft
is going back to Windows Live
SkyDrive as the final name for
the service.
Microsoft announced its
rebranding plans on August 9.
The company also refreshed and
added some features of the
SkyDrive service. Microsoft
tweaked the SkyDrive user
interface; added the ability
to drag and drop single files
or multiple files for upload;
provided a new śthumbnails
viewť; and introduced an area
designed to show other
customers SkyDrive folders
visited recently.
winbeta.org - 10.08.2007
The Future of Windows Live Mail Desktop
There hasn't been much news
on Windows Live Mail desktop
since 2006, with a minor
update being released in
February. With most Windows
Live watchers expecting a v1
release at the beginning of
the year, many are wondering
what is happening to the
product. Dare Obasanjo even
joked at a rename to Outlook
Express Live.
It seems to be that
Microsoft is rethinking its
mail client strategy, with the
belief that two distinct free
mail clients for Windows Vista
(Windows Mail and Windows Live
Mail desktop) is not the way
to move forward.
Instead, Mail
desktop will evolve to become
an enhanced Windows Mail
client, which when installed
will replace Vista's Windows
Mail. For those familiar with
Mail desktop there will not be
a huge change however for
those using Windows Mail they
will benefit from the
integration of Live services.
While the
name and details of the new
product are unconfirmed,
hopefully we should soon see a
beta of Windows Live Mail for
Vista.
jcxp.net - 13.03.2007
Windows Live Folder Beta transforms into Live Skydrive Beta
Good News! Windows Live
Skydrive (formerly Windows
Live Folders) is now available
in the United States in
English and Spanish, Great
Britain, and India! You will
not be able to access the Live
Skydrive site if you are
outside these markets. We look
forward to growing into
further markets in the
future!
When you
sign in to Windows Live
Skydrive, you're in charge.
For each folder you create,
you choose who has access to
it. Add new folders, rename
them, or change who has access
at any time.
Always where you need
them- 500 MB of free
online storage, available from
any computer with Internet
access.
- Create
personal, shared, and public
folders -- you decide who has
access to each
folder.
- Skydrive work
well on any Windows or
Macintosh computer with
Firefox 1.5 or higher, or
Internet Explorer 6.0 or
higher.
neowin.net - 10.08.2007
