Windows Live Messenger Service Outage
The Windows Live Messenger service is reportedly inaccessible by various users around the world. Reports are also prevelant of other Windows Live ID-supported sites not functioning, such as Hotmail, MSN Web Messenger and Microsoft Connect.
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17.3.2007 Outage of Skype's VoIP service appears to be over
Company says more work remains to be done to fix a 'deficiency' in an algorithm within Skype's networking software. A log-in problem that shut many users out of Skype's popular VoIP service for nearly 14 hours appears to be over, but the company said more work remains to be done.
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17.8.2007 Open Letter to Steve Ballmer
Steve, I've heard you're making a tough decision about Yahoo. I know what you should do. It's time to step back and walk away. Yahoo's not worth the trouble. If you force an acquisition, your legacy will be mud not Mesh.
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2.5.2008 Open Letter from Steve Jobs
The August 2006 appearance, one of Jobs' 'weakest'
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In what is one of the most surprising moves from Apple's CEO this year, Steve Jobs has posted an open letter to the Apple Community, admitting health issues had to do with his not attending the Macworld Expo this year.
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6.1.2009 Open letter to Microsoft: It's time for a single version of Windows
An Open Letter to Microsoft:
Windows XP did a great thing. It united two operating systems - the Windows 9x codebase and the Windows NT codebase (including Windows 2000).
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12.6.2009 Google Gmail Outage
Google is having a really bad day. The Mountain View-based search giant revealed that an outage affected its email service for approximately four hours.
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24.2.2009 YouTube Outage Might Have Been Caused by Pakistan
Pakistani Internet service providers may have inadvertently blocked the popular YouTube Web site across the world at the weekend when they restricted local access to the site, a telecommunications official said.
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26.2.2008 Microsoft's MSN Search restored after hours-long outage
Microsoft Corp.'s MSN search engine stopped working for about four hours Thursday.
Microsoft spokesman Justin Osmer said in an e-mail that the company was still trying to determine what went wrong.
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7.4.2006 Skype blames Windows Update for 48-hour outage
Skype is pointing the finger at Windows Update for a critical system crash that wiped out the VoIP service for two days.
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20.8.2007 Windows XP Service pack 1
Windows XP Service Pack 1: XP SP1 (now called SP1a)
Microsoft continually works to improve its software. As part of this effort, we develop updates and fixes to recognized issues and release them for customers. On a regular basis, we combine many of these fixes into a single package and make the package available for you to install on your computers. These packages are called Service Packs.
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Windows XP Service pack 2
About once a year, Microsoft releases an update to Windows XP. These updates contain all the fixes and enhancements which have been made available in the previous year. The updates (called Service Packs) provide convenient, all-in-one access to the most up-to-date drivers, tools, security updates, patches, and customer-requested product changes.
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Windows XP Service pack 3
This is Windows XP SP3 - Service Pack 3 Unofficial Preview.
Mr. Ballmer made some interesting remarks: Microsoft might indeed ship SP3 for Windows XP before Longhorn comes out. Also, upcoming version 7 of Internet Explorer should have anti-phishing technology built-in.
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Windows Server2003 Service Pack 1
On this page you'll find information for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Windows Server 2003 SP1 provides enhanced security, increased reliability, and simplified administration to help enterprise customers across all industries.
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.NET Framework 1.0 Service Pack 2
The Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 1.0 SP2 Redistributable includes everything you need to run .NET Compact Framework applications, including the Common Language Runtime and the .NET Compact Framework class library.
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Microsoft delays Service Pack 3 again
Microsoft quietly let it be known this week that it plans yet again to delay the release of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP users, this time until some point in the first half of 2008.
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5.12.2006 Microsoft Launches Translation Service
Microsoft launched a service for automatic translation called Windows Live Translator. The site lets you translate a text limited to 500 words or a web page from English to German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Russian.
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9.9.2007 Flight Simulator X Service Pack 2 Now Available
With a week to spare before the Winter Solstice and fall is over! A lot of people worked hard to get this done before Christmas, kudos to the SP2 team at Aces.
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14.12.2007 Windows XP Service pack 3 Download
This is Windows XP SP3 - Service Pack 3 Unofficial Preview Download page.
Sownload the WindowsXP SP3 Preview Hotfix Pack containing over 100 fixes going into XP SP3.
More info about Windows XP SP3
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Office 2003 Service Pack 2 DOWNLOAD
Microsoft? Office 2003 Service Pack 2 contains significant security enhancements, in addition to stability and performance improvements. Some of the fixes included with SP2 have been previously released as separate updates. This service pack combines them into one update.
Office 2003 Service Pack 2 include Office 2003 Service Pack 2 for Proofing Tools, New anti phishing feature in Outlook 2003 SP2 ..
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iMesh Launches Legal P2P Service
Becoming the first official legal peer-to-peer service,
iMesh on Tuesday announced it was taking the sixth version of its software into public beta. The company says it is the only globally active P2P network that maintains the experience of file sharing while assuring the copyright holders are fairly compensated.
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Service Offers File Sharing Over Gmail
P2P users have found a creative way to fill up the more than 2 gigabytes of e-mail storage offered by Google's Gmail: file sharing. A new service created by Dutch student Robbie Groenewoudt taps into Gmail and creates an index of files that can be accessed by other users.
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27.11.2005 Sprint Unveils Movie Download Service
While some have questioned the viability of full-length video content on small screens, it appears that Sprint Nextel is concerned with none of that. The wireless provider on Monday launched a new service that will allow its cellular users to view full-length television shows, movies, concerts, and specials.
Sprint has called on MSpot, a California-based mobile entertainment company founded last year, to provide the service. Subscribers with compatible video cell phones will be able to add the feature to their wireless plans for an additional $6.95 uSD per month.
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13.12.2005 Microsoft prices and dates OneCare service
Microsoft has revealed more details of its all-in-one PC care service dubbed OneCare Live.
Already in beta, the subscription-based package will be officially released in the US in June from retailers and via the Web. A year's subscription will cost $49.95 and will cover up to three personal computers.
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8.2.2006 Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Now Available
Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 continues Microsoft's investment in market leading development tools.
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17.12.2006 Skype to launch Web TV service
The founders of Skype are close to launching a global broadband television service promising viewers, content owners and advertisers “the best of the internet with the best of TV”.
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18.12.2006 Google ditches invites for email service
Google will drop the invite system for signing up to Gmail service as of tomorrow.
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15.2.2007 Vista Service Pack 1 Spotted In The Wild
With all the Microsoft-created confusion out there around when — and even whether — the company plans to deliver the first service pack (SP) for Windows Vista, it’s nice to see some concrete proof that Vista SP1 does exist.
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18.5.2007 It Lives! Windows Vista Service Pack 1
Thanks to PureForever for reporting of this article. It Lives! Windows Vista Service Pack 1 - First Download Available.
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9.6.2007 Inside Windows Vista Service Pack 1
"Now is the time and the time is now." This is the introduction Microsoft Product Manager Nick White tied to the company's first initiative designed to make public details about the first service pack for Windows Vista.
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1.9.2007AT&T Uverse Customers Hit with Outage
A national outage affected AT&T's Uverse television service on Sunday, completely knocking out service for several hours, the company confirmed...
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23.10.2007Another Google service outage makes its cloud look more like Swiss cheese
But it has led to the creation of "the best place" to find service outage information anywhere in the world, according to Google.
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28.02.2009RIM's "critical severity outage" affects BlackBerry users
A major outage hit BlackBerry users in North America on Monday afternoon, cutting off wireless e-mail for everyone. The problem, which BlackBerry
owner Research In Motion described as a "critical severity outage" affecting users in the Americas, once again raised concerns about the stability
of the e-mail service 10 months after a widespread crash last April.
RIM notified its clients of the outage in an e-mail.
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12.02.2008Google's Gmail experiencing web outage
Visitors to Google's Gmail service are being greeted with server errors when trying to access their mail accounts this morning. It's not yet
known what the exact issue is but Gmail officials have confirmed they are aware of the web outage and the company is "trying to fix it asap". Google
Search is currently unaffected. Many users are reporting IMAP services and POP3 services seem to be unaffected. This is the second outage to hit
Google in a month. Late January the Google Search service was offline for up to 1hr when a human error marked all search results as malicious.
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24.02.2009Skype: Client Updates May Have Played a Role in Service Outage
The Skype representative who first invoked the phrase "perfect storm" to describe the confluence of events that led to 48-hour service outage
on August 16, told BetaNews today that circumstances such as those we experienced in our own tests yesterday could indeed have contributed to
triggering that storm, if only in a minor way...
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24.08.2007XM Outage Continues to Second Day
XM subscribers were dealing
with a second day of service
problems Tuesday as the
company finally acknowledged
an outage and offered an
explanation for the lack of
signal many were experiencing,
especially across the Eastern
US and Canada...
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22.05.2007Microsoft: Patch Tuesday Didn't Cause Thursday Skype Outage
In a company blog post yesterday morning, Skype engineers disclosed that they suspected a wave of client-side reboots were triggered by Patch Tuesday at roughly the same time, for last week's 48-hour service outage. This morning, the explanation has been amended, removing Microsoft from blame for the outage while saying Patch Tuesday contributed to a "perfect storm" of events...
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21.08.2007Skype Outage Enters Day 2, Client Updated
Internet calling service Skype
remained offline for most
users Friday morning, as a
major outage related to
account sign-ins continued
into its second day. Skype
owner eBay's stock took a hit
Thursday from the news, but
Skype employees said the
service was "on the road
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17.08.2007Users: Outage no reason to abandon Skype
When the Internet phone company Skype went offline for nearly two days last week, Tim Legrand was frustrated and inconvenienced. But he has no plans
to switch back to a traditional telephone line.
The Birmingham, England, graduate student, who ditched his old phone service a
year ago, says Skype's low cost and flexibility outweigh the headaches caused by the outage.
He's not alone. Although millions
of users were angry, analysts say the outage is unlikely to cause customers to hang up on the service.
If anything, the reaction
may be a sign that Internet telephony - or Voice over Internet Protocol - is coming of age, said Richard Levick, chief executive of Levick Strategic
Communications, which provides crisis guidance for companies...
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24.08.2007WVA Phone Outage Hits Hospitals, 911 Centers
A massive telephone service
outage is affecting thousands
in West Virginia, after
FiberNet had a network failure
that affected both its primary
and backup systems. The
problem began at 5:30am and
continues to persist five
hours later. Hospitals, fire
departments, businesses and
homes are affected...
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10.07.2007Microsoft: WGA Outage 'Not an Outage'
Microsoft said Tuesday that the glitch that caused Windows Genuine Advantage servers to fail this past weekend was due to human error...
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29.08.2007RIM: 'Series' of Errors Caused Outage
Research In Motion said late
Thursday that a malfunctioning
new feature caused the outage
which affected millions of its
subscribers Tuesday night into
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20.04.2007Wal-Mart's iPhone launch meets widespread outage
Yesterday, discount retailer Wal-Mart began selling the iPhone 3G, and as if to welcome customers to their new devices, AT&T suffered a substantial
network outage...
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30.12.2008RIM blames Monday's BlackBerry outage on a faulty upgrade
Monday's three-hour BlackBerry e-mail outage now has an official excuse from Research In Motion: a software upgrade in its main servers gone horribly
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14.02.2008Gmail users hit by spam attack after outage
After the widespread Gmail outage yesterday users were hit by a phishing attack over the Gtalk chat client. "The malicious message spread via the
Google Talk instant messaging chat system, urging users to a video by clicking on a link connected via the TinyURL service. The link points to a
website called ViddyHo, which invited users to submit their Gmail usernames and passwords." When users entered their credentials the information
would be logged and the email account would be compromised. If you think you may have been subjected to this attack it is advised you change your
password immediately The attack was not immediately picked up by Google either because it did not use conventional means.
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25.02.2009Thousands in WVA Still Without Phone Service
After an outage Tuesday
morning knocked out phone
service to an estimated 20,000
locations in West Virginia,
FiberNet -- the company whose
systems failed -- is still
working on the problem over 24
hours later. Hospitals and
police departments have been
given priority, however, and
most had phone service
restored early Wednesday...
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11.07.2007Could Skype's Own Update Have Contributed to Last Week's Outage?
The behavior of a Skype upgrade installation routine on one of BetaNews' systems may point to evidence that other factors besides Patch Tuesday
Windows upgrades may have been partly responsible for triggering what Skype engineers called a "perfect storm" - its worldwide, two-day-long
system outage...
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22.08.2007Google 'feels your pain' after the latest Gmail outage
Yesterday, many Gmail users found themselves unable to access their mailboxes, as Gmail returned a "Temporary Error (502)." Google later
posted an apology in the official Gmail Blog that gave a clue as to how big the outage was...
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12.08.2008Skype Hit by Major Outage, Downloads Disabled
Skype suffered a
major
outage early Thursday
morning in what is being
characterized as a "software
issue" related to users
logging into the service.
Engineers say it will take
them 12 to 24 hours to fix the
problem, and in the meantime
have disabled all downloads of
the Skype client.
The company, owned by
eBay, has not specified what
exactly caused the outage, but
Skype has a strong history of
reliability. It's possible
there was some database
corruption related to user
logins, which could explain
the lengthy time needed to
repair the issue.
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16.08.2007Microsoft still battling Windows Live and Hotmail outage
A major outage to Microsoft Windows Live services has left an unknown number of users unable to access MSN Messenger, Hotmail and other services since
earlier today. Progress is being made on resolving the situation, the company says...
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