MSN Butterfly to Flutter Its Wings for Charity
MSN is sponsoring "Under the Butterfly," a pilot program geared toward helping boys and girls across America while guiding customers to unique content across MSN channels.
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14.6.2006 Microsoft Promotion: make MSN Your Homepage & Win a Zune
How badly does Microsoft want to promote the Zune? Not badly enough to think of anything particularly ingenious. Unique? yes. Succesful? No.
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15.2.2007 Microsoft says goodbye to the Butterfly Program
Who remembers the MSN Butterfly community? For those of you who don't know, the program was renamed a few years ago to the Windows Live Butterfly Community. Today Microsoft officially announced that it will be closing the program, which had about ~150 members.
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2.7.2009 MSN to Relaunch as MSN Media Network?
The LiveSide folks are reporting that MSN is looking to relaunch itself as the MSN Media Network. We figured the MSN team would have to do some kind of rebranding, given that most of their properties are now operating under the "Live," rather than the MSN banner. LiveSide says the MSNers are looking to expand their franchises to include
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7.2.2006 MSN (may) becomes the MSN Media Network
Several sources have indicated to us that MSN plans to relaunch itself as the MSN Media Network, whilst at the same time expanding its range of interactive and content rich services. As well as continuing to deliver content through MSN.com and MSN Music, the MSN Video team is evolving to include Movies and TV. Both these sites have already been revamped at the end of last year and feature show times and reviews as well as the latest entertainment news.
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8.2.2006 Do not make Win 7 too Mac-like
Blogger Paul Thurrott has written a couple of interesting posts about the difference between “simple” and “easy” in the context of Windows 7.
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4.12.2008 Why Apple does not make a netbook
As netbooks continue their inexorable rise up the wish lists of gadget hounds, businesses and ordinary folk alike, the clamor for Apple to join the market continues to increase from all sides.
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5.3.2009 Is Google going to make Microsoft look good?
Why do we like Google? Is it because they are the “do no evil” company? Is it because they are not Microsoft? Is it because they make our lives easier through their search, email, and other services? The fact of the matter is that a lot of people from users, to developers, to workers, and to investors like Google. Heck, even I like google! (Look at the ads.)
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3.8.2006 Microsoft Blogs Make Room for Ads
Microsoft's MSN Spaces blogging features are set for a major upgrade to incorporate a revenue-sharing advertising option and a new partnership with Amazon.com, according to various sources.
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26.1.2006 How To Make a Custom Vista Disc AIO
odeeee report How To
Make a Custom Vista Disc All In One in our forum.
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26.1.2007 ReadyBoost in Windows Vista: Does it Make a Difference?
USB memory keys are compact little devices that can store and transfer anywhere from 128MB to 8GB of data, all it takes is a USB slot.
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27.8.2007 Users may need Vista to make most of Server 2008
Companies installing Windows Server 2008 may have to buy extra Microsoft software, such as Windows Vista, to use more advanced features, analyst firm Gartner has said.
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3.11.2007 Hollywood to make shows for Xbox 360
Microsoft, seeking to expand offerings on its Xbox 360 console, has reached an agreement with a company headed by Peter Safran, the veteran Hollywood producer and talent manager, to produce original shows for distribution on the system.
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31.3.2008 Last OS Standing: Make the Most of Windows Vista
Now that Windows XP is no longer being sold by Microsoft, PC users will be stuck with Windows Vista. Here's a roundup of PC World's best tips for making Vista easier to use.
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3.7.2008 Microsoft to eventually make Office a web application
Microsoft is leaping into hosted applications big time. InformationWeek reports that Microsoft plans to offer hosted implementations of SharePoint, CRM and ERP applications. But the best quote in that article was left till last. A "Microsoft insider" was asked which other products and services Microsoft would host and the reply was: "Everything. Hosted Office. Everything hosted."
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MS Vista to make official debut in Israel
Microsoft Windows team development head Steven Sinofsky will unveil Vista at Tech-Ed Israel 2006. windows -
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4.4.2006 NSA Helped Microsoft Make Vista Secure
Microsoft has confirmed that the U.S. government agency best known for eavesdropping on telephone calls had a hand in the development of the Windows Vista operating system.
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12.1.2007 Microsoft: Make our HD Photo format a standard
Such is the reasoning behind a step Microsoft plans to announce Thursday: it will submit its HD Photo image format to a standards body.
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8.3.2007 Microsoft Gambles One EU Customer Will Make its Case
It has been "Issues Week" all week for Microsoft, and Thursday, the company took on the dreaded interoperability issue. But its choice of message was called into question a bit yesterday after Microsoft boasted of having signed up its first official customer for its communications and interoperability IP licenses: Quest Software, the manufacturer of the Toad data modeling system.
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10.3.2007 TechEd 2007 Preview: Now It's Developers' Turn to Make Changes
With Windows Vista already a firmly entrenched product in many homes and some businesses, and with Windows Server 2008 cruising toward a final release in the second half of this year, Microsoft may feel it's time for its many partners and developers with an interest in Windows' success to stand and deliver.
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4.6.2007 Ultimately, Touch Will Make the Killer Windows 7 Applications
Undoubtedly it is the ecosystem of third-party software solutions that make Windows the platform that it is today, sharing the operating system's success.
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12.11.2008 How-To: Remove the Windows BSOD icon in Leopard, make OS X a little less smug
It's pretty clear that Apple left no stone unturned in Leopard, making changes and fixes throughout the new operating system.
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31.10.2007 OneCare Death to Make Room for Free Morro Antivirus for Windows 7
A future core antimalware solution will replace Windows Live OneCare, which, considering the price of a one year subscription, has already qualified for an alternative to free security software, come mid-2009.
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25.11.2008 Make No Mistake About It, the XP SP3 RTM Direct Download Links Are Live
Make no mistake about it, the gold bits of Windows XP Service Pack 3 are available for download straight from Microsoft, contrary to what the company is claiming.
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1.5.2008 Windows 7 – 20 Features to Make Users Forget Vista SP1/SP2 and XP SP3
Microsoft is currently moving onward with the development of Windows 7, having passed Milestone 3 with the operating system.
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15.11.2008 MSN UK moves
After ten years at msn.co.uk, MSN has today changed its UK domain name to uk.msn.com, in an effort to make their site more accessible to users and increase loading efficiency. Consumers who use several MSN UK services such as Hotmail and MSN Messenger will benefit from easier transition across services without having to log in every time they move to another area of the site.
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6.12.2005 MSN Messenger 7.5.0324
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8.2.2006 MSN Search Spoof
MSN Search celebrates April Fool's with the return of Spoof, the parody tool that uses fake (but hilariously accurate) search results to gently mock friends, bosses, or people who just need to be teased.
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2.4.2006 MSN search down for hours
According to Infoworld Microsoft's MSN search engine suffered an hours-long outage yesterday as results turned to errors.
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7.4.2006 Showusyourwow.msn.com is live
Microsoft launched a new site Show Us Your Wow moment. This is the next Vista looks like site launched as a promotion of Windows Vista.
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8.1.2007Microsoft says goodbye to the Butterfly Program
Who remembers the MSN Butterfly community? For those of you who don't know, the program was renamed a few years ago to the Windows Live Butterfly
Community. Today Microsoft officially announced that it will be closing the program, which had about 150 members. So what was the Windows Live
Butterfly Community? The program launched about 8 years ago and was designed to award the best beta testers who tested MSN products. Everyone who
actively participated in the program got the first dibs on beta testing MSN products. They received gifts from Microsoft as a token of their
appreciation, and even held a few "Butterfly Tours" of Microsoft's Redmond campus.
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02.07.2009MSN to Stream 'Arrested
Development'
MSN and Fox said Wednesday
they had reached an agreement
that would give Microsoft
exclusive rights to stream the
entire three-season run of the
cult favorite comedy
"Arrested
Development." The deal
will make all 53 episodes of
the show exclusively available
for three years on MSN at no
charge...
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27.07.2006MSN Video Times Ads Right for Users
Today, Microsoft Corp. released its latest version of
MSN Video, offering consumers and
advertisers an enhanced experience by improving the ability to find and discover premium and user-generated video content from the expansive MSN Video
library, adding new community sharing features, and introducing a new time-based advertising delivery model.
The new MSN Video
makes it easier for viewers to find and discover the breadth of video content from more than 40 leading video content providers, as well as video from
across the Web. MSN Video now also integrates Soapbox user-generated videos directly into the same easy-to-use destination, and enables people to
search and browse the entire MSN Video catalog while concurrently watching a video in a split-screen format. In addition, MSN Video users are now able
to easily create playlists of their favorite videos and share them with friends.
śThis latest release of MSN Video will make
discovering, watching and sharing video easier and more entertaining than ever before,ť said Rob Bennett, general manager, entertainment, video and
sports for MSN. śBy increasing the discoverability of our deep catalog, making it easier to share videos with friends, and improving the advertising
model, we are continuing in our mission to make video an integral part of the MSN experience.ť..
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26.09.2007MSN Launches Green Channel
Today MSN added a new channel to its online information and entertainment network called MSN Green a one-stop online resource for the latest
environmental news, exploring the issues and taking action. MSN has teamed up with some of the leading media and environmental sources, MSNBC, Hearst
Magazines (The Daily Green), Conservation International, Environmental Defense, Grist.org, TreeHugger.com and StopGlobalWarming.org, to offer the new
channel, located at
http://green.msn.com.
MSN Green will provide consumers
with environmental information, including articles developed by popular online publications and Web sites, along with multimedia, interactive features
and other content compiled from MSN Lifestyle, MSN Money, MSN Autos, MSN Travel, and the networks other information and entertainment channels.
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30.10.2007Microsoft to replace MSN Groups with Windows Live Groups
Microsoft has been planning to remove MSN Groups and re brand them with Windows Live since the introduction of Windows Live. Now it seems Windows Live
Groups will launch on November 17th, replacing MSN Groups, set to close on February 21, 2009.
In an email
from a Microsoft Technical Support spokesperson, it is advised that Microsoft will be launching a service named
multiply to migrate MSN Groups to Multiply so that they can be preserved after MSN
Groups is closed in February.
Jonathan Yaniv, a Microsoft Windows Live Butterfly, has been doing some
digging around the Microsoft Windows
Live internal sites. Yaniv has found that you can now apply
new
themes to groups, stop people from
using your Group in
Windows Live Messenger to chat and Microsoft has implemented a
mailing list feature for group emails and an option to ban known spammers.
Below is an example of the new Windows
Live Groups set to launch next month (courtesy of
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16.10.2008Microsoft Names New MSN Head
Microsoft said Friday that it
has hired away InterActive
Corp search head Steve
Berkowitz to lead its Online
Business division, which
includes MSN and Windows Live.
The hiring continues the
leadership shuffle at the
Redmond company in an effort
to make it more competitive
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24.04.2006MSN Strikes New Entertainment
Deals
Microsoft's MSN division
inked two new content deals on
Wednesday, including an
agreement to rebroadcast the
Bob Marley Festival in Miami
as well as a deal with
Billboard to run a music site
on the MSN Latino service...
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23.02.2006MSN, AP Launch Video Network
Microsoft and the Associated
Press launched on Wednesday
the AP Online Video Network, a
new service powered by MSN
Video that will make the
newswire's footage available
to the websites of its
members. The service would be
free to users and supported
through ads that play before
the news clips...
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01.03.2006MSN Opens Up adCenter Testing
in US
Microsoft's MSN division is
looking for testers to try out
its new adCenter product in
the United States through a
recently launched pilot
program. Yusuf Mehdi, senior
vice president of MSN, asked
employees last week to invite
businesses who might be
interested in the service...
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12.10.2005Next Generation of Soapbox and MSN Video Betas Launched
The Next Generation of Soapbox and MSN Video
Betas Launched. Both MSN Video and
Soapbox on MSN Video Beta launched a next generation
version. The old
MSN Video will keep existing next to the new
MSN Video Beta.
Some of the Upgraded Features...
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25.04.2008MSN to Relaunch as MSN Media
Network?
The LiveSide folks are
reporting that MSN is looking
to relaunch itself as the MSN
Media Network.
We figured the MSN team
would have to do some kind of
rebranding, given that most of
their properties are now
operating under the "Live,"
rather than the MSN banner.
LiveSide says
the MSNers are looking to
expand their franchises to
include more movie and TV
content, as well as some kind
of podcasting service.
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08.02.2006Windows Live rooted in MSN's
past
Is Windows Live just
another name for
MSN?
Of
the eight or so services that
Microsoft showed off Tuesday
at the launch of Windows Live,
its new Web-based consumer
tools, the vast majority are
reincarnations of products
that the company had either
released or tested under the
MSN
brand.
"A
lot of the Windows Live
services are things that had
already been in development by
MSN," Directions on Microsoft
analyst Matt Rosoff said.
The main Live.com
Web page is similar to the
Start.com page that has been
in testing since earlier this
year. Windows Live Mail is a
long-planned update to Hotmail
designed to make the service
more like desktop e-mail
software. Other existing
products, like Microsoft's
MSN Spaces and its OneCare
security service, are also
joining the Windows Live
party...
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04.11.2005MSN Joins Yahoo to Build Book
Search
Microsoft's MSN division is
following in Google's
footsteps with plans to roll
out a book search next year.
But to avoid the same legal
troubles that have plagued its
rival, MSN will adopt an
opt-in policy while focusing
on books in the public domain
and other print material not
under copyrights...
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27.10.2005MSN Admits to Sharing Search
Data
Following news that Google
refused to comply with a
subpoena requiring the company
to turn over search records
from its database, much
speculation swirled about the
response from rivals MSN and
Yahoo. MSN has broken its
silence and now acknowledges
that it did share search data,
but no personal information...
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23.01.2006MSN customised page gets beta update
We havent mentioned MSN for a while, mainly due to all the Microsoft-Yahoo talk thats been going on. However a few days ago the My MSN customised
homepage launched a new beta version, available at
http://next.my.msn.com.
So whats new?
Well the most striking thing youll notice when comparing it to the
old site is that it now
features the new-style header UI. This includes the drop down menu linking users to all the other MSN sites, as well as offering access to the main
Live Search verticals straight from the page.
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04.07.2008Does Live.com Mean the End of
MSN?
One of the most frequently
asked questions following the
Windows Live launch on Tuesday
has been: "What happens to
MSN?" Microsoft executives
were quick to reassure that
the online brand will survive.
But with Messenger, Search,
Mail and more becoming Windows
Live services, what's left
for MSN?..
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02.11.2005MSN Enhances Spaces, Start.com
MSN has been busy making enhancements to some of its services based on the requests of its users. Two popular features of the service, Spaces and its new Start.com testbed, were tweaked to allow greater customization and mobility. MSN Spaces users can now change the default color scheme to their liking...
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14.08.2005MSN Begins Work on Modular Web Site
A visit to MSN..
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27.08.2005Microsoft Adds Antiphishing to IE Toolbar
Add-ins to MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search available now.
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01.09.2005MSN, Associated Press Ink
Video Deal
The Associated Press is
preparing to roll out a video
news service early next year
and on Wednesday selected MSN
to stream the content and sell
advertising before each clip.
As part of the AP Online Video
Network, members will receive
a custom MSN player and up to
50 video clips per day...
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