Windows Live Messenger 2009
Due to a request from Microsoft, this download has been removed temporarily. However, Windows Live Messenger 9 will be available for download here as soon as it is oficially published. Check back often to ensure you don't miss it!
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19.11.2008 Messenger Plus! Live 2009 contest
Patchou has announced his 2009 Messenger Plus! Live contest with no less than 1,000 prize packages up for grabs.
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12.7.2009 Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (2009) Beta Refresh
The Windows Live Messenger for Facebook update delivered at the end of the past week was just a preview of the evolution of the desktop instant messaging client.
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17.12.2008 Windows Live OneCare Still Available After June 30, 2009
Windows Live OneCare will be available for customers to purchase after the end of this month. In mid-November 2008 Microsoft announced a shift in its security strategy and it plans to deliver a free security offering to users worldwide by the end of 2009.
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2.6.2009 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 Windows Live Movie Maker 2009 for Windows 7
Windows Live Movie Maker 2009 version 14.0.8091.0730 is go! (finally). Microsoft has finally released a workable version of Windows Live Movie Maker for Windows 7, just in time before it hits the shelves in October.
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19.8.2009 Gates opens entertainment window
Though Bill Gates is in town to tout his hot new Xbox 360 to the hordes in attendance at the huge Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), his horizon extends to the Hollywood hills ? and beyond.
Video games are key, but the Microsoft chairman also has his hand in much of the behind-the-scenes wrangling over entertainment and the Internet.
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12.5.2006 Window Seizer 1.00 Beta
Windows Seizer and a standalone freeware utility which lists all the windows you have open on your PC.
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31.3.2007 Napster hangs "for sale" sign in front window
Napster is evaluating the possibility of a sale by hiring of an investment bank. Citing "recent third party interest," the company has asked UBS Investment Bank to explore strategic partnerships or an outright sale of the company.
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20.9.2006 New Window Management System for Windows 7 Pre-Beta
The window management system is one piece of the Windows 7 graphical user interface which will evolve starting with the pre-Beta version of the operating system.
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3.10.2008 Windows Vista Build 5728 Availability Window Closing Soon
Nick White has posted this on the Vista team blog yesterday, thought I'd give everyone who is interested in testing the latest build of Vista a heads up on the limited availability.
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26.9.2006 Secunia round 3: Internet Explorer 7 Window Injection Vulnerability
A vulnerability has been discovered in Internet Explorer 7, which can be exploited by malicious people to spoof the content of websites.
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30.10.2006 Microsoft Office 2007 RTM'ed, Window Vista 99% RTM
On Monday Microsoft will announce that the 2007 Microsoft Office system products have been released to manufacturing (RTM).
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6.11.2006 Disable Aero Snap Auto Maximize and Arrange Window in Windows 7
Windows 7 includes a new feature called Aero Snap that intends to improve open windows management on the desktop. Aero Snap allows user to drag a window to the top of the screen to maximize the window automatically, or to the left or right side of the screen to resize the window to fill and take up half of the screen estate on the moved side automatically.
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19.5.2009 Hack to Activate and Switch Window in Windows 7 By Mouse Over Hover Without Click
When there are many windows open on desktop of Windows 7, normally users will click on another window in order activate the window into front or foreground and switch to the task or window.
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19.5.2009 Silverlight 3 in 2009
Having made available for download version 2 of its Adobe Flash killer, Microsoft is already moving onward to the next iteration.
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18.11.2008 Windows 7 - the End of 2009
As much as Microsoft is trying to make the availability date for the next iteration of the Windows client ambiguous, officially pointing to a development process scoped for 2010, Windows 7 is actually dropping at the end of 2009, were we to believe Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer.
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28.5.2008 Windows 7 Available on September 1, 2009
As Microsoft is making its way to the release to manufacturing milestone of Windows 7, the company confirmed that the gold build of the operating system would be made available to customers months ahead of October 22, 2009, the official launch deadline.
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14.7.2009 Microsoft: Vista follow-up likely in 2009
With Vista just out the door, Microsoft is now drawing up plans to deliver its follow-up client operating system by the end of 2009, according to the executive in charge of building the product's core components.
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10.2.2007 Internet Explorer 8? 2008? 2009?
Internet Explorer 8 followed by a question mark and an interrogatory tone is about all that can be said about the successor of Internet Explorer 7 at this point in time.
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1.10.2007 Norton 2009 tackles whitelisting
Symantec has adopted whitelising techniques in an effort to dramatically improve the performance of its upcoming Norton 2009 security suite, according to the company's vice president of consumer engineering, Rowan Trollope.
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12.9.2008 FIFA 2009 Demo Released
Electronic Arts is getting ready to launch the most anticipated soccer related game of the year, FIFA 2009, and they are preparing gamers for the shock by releasing a demo.
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14.9.2008 Windows 7 RTM in October 2009
Windows 7 will be released to manufacturing in 2009, more precisely in the third quarter of this year, with information from a leaked product roadmap pointing to the first half of October 2009.
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25.2.2009 Patch Tuesday for September 2009
Microsoft's Security Bulletin for September contains five critical bulletins for release on Tuesday to block Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities in Windows operating systems.
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5.9.2009 September 2009 Security Patches
This month MS released five critical bulletins to address vulnerabilities in Windows and protect customers from two types of threats.
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9.9.2009 Businesses delay Vista plans until 2009
Businesses remain unconvinced about the benefits of moving to Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system and most are delaying any plans to upgrade until 2009 at the earliest.
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29.11.2007 Keep Windows XP Until 2009, Analysts Tell Microsoft
Microsoft may have pushed a too-aggressive XP transition schedule because of how long it took to release Vista, an analyst suggests.
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9.2.2008 Ballmer: Office 14 will not be released in 2009
During his annual Strategic Update briefing with Wall Street analysts on February 24, CEO Steve Ballmer said Office 14 wont be shipping in 2009.
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24.2.2009 MMS 2009: System Center Roadmap
During the 2nd keynote on the Microsoft Managemetn Summit Brad Anderson gave an update on the Roadmap for System Center. Seems like 2011 will be a year with major updates for System Center products.
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3.5.2009 Windows 7 RTM in Late July 2009
Speculation on the deadline at which Microsoft will release Windows 7 to manufacturing not only abounds but also continues.
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9.7.2009Windows Live Messenger and Live Suite Wave 3 released (RC)
Microsoft has just made the updated release candidate of the Windows Live Suite wave 3 at download.live.com. Thanks to Sean Bradford for alerting
us. Microsoft has updated the Messenger client to Version 2009 (Build 14.0.8050.1202) as can be seen below from the about Window: There is no beta
tag anywhere on this build as it's a near final build and Messenger plus does work with this build but not all features are usable. Overall the
UI has been enhanced in most areas with minor changes. The main improvements are the integration to Windows 7 with the new jump lists feature.
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15.12.2008Microsoft's 'Live Mesh' aims to become the universal window to the Web
Microsoft has taken the wraps off a Technology Preview of its new Live Mesh platform, which promises to connect disparate devices so they can
seamlessly share information. But beyond the surface, Live Mesh portends that Microsoft doesn't just want to compete on the Web; it wants to
be the Web...
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23.04.2008Neowin Exclusive: Messenger Plus! Live 2009 contest
Patchou has announced his 2009 Messenger Plus! Live contest with no less than 1,000 prize packages up for grabs. The contest does not require any
form of entry, only for users to simply click on an image made up from millions of pixels, selecting the winning pixels that contain prizes. The
contest is similar to that of the 6th anniversary contest two years ago. Beginning at Sunday July 12 at 00:01 (GMT -5) the contest will open to
everybody. Anyone with Messenger Plus! Live (4.82.368) installed can play the contest. Users will see a gold Messenger Plus! Live logo on the top of
their Windows Live Messenger contact list that looks like this: .
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12.07.2009Microsoft Updates Live
Messenger Beta
Microsoft on Tuesday began
rolling out a new Windows Live
Messenger build to beta
testers, streamlining the
client's interface and adding
a number of new features such
as integration with Windows
Live Contacts. The release,
numbered 8.0.556, also
supports colorization of the
entire Messenger window...
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28.02.2006Windows 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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01.12.2005Neowin Live Blog: Microsoft PDC 2009, November 17-19
Neowin will be covering Microsoft's 2009 Professional Developers Conference (PDC) live from Los Angeles next week. We've team up with a
number of well known Microsoft bloggers to blog the Day 1 and Day 2 keynotes. The live blogging will include Ed Bott, Kip Kniskern, Long Zheng, Mary
Jo Foley, Paul Thurrott, Rafael Rivera and myself Tom Warren. Last year this proved a success with thousands of you joining in, commenting on the
Windows 7 announcements. Once again we will all contribute to a single Coveritlive liveblog so you'll be able to read all of us live from Neowin
and everyone else's site. The different opinions/commentary each of us will provide should make it an interesting read.
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12.11.2009Microsoft readying RC of Vista SP2 for February 2009
Citing a source at Microsoft, Techarp has revealed that Microsoft is targeting a release candidate (RC) version of Windows Vista SP2 for February
2009. Microsoft sent invites to testers in mid October asking them to take part in the SP2 beta. Build 16489 was released to special group of testers
in late October but Microsoft has been quiet since then. TechArp also believes the RTM of Vista SP2 will be in April 2009. Microsoft is readying SP2
so there are additional incentives for customers to upgrade to Window Vista now, instead of waiting for Windows 7.
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24.11.2008PINNED: Microsoft Updates Live
Messenger Beta
Microsoft on Tuesday began
rolling out a new Windows Live
Messenger build to beta
testers, streamlining the
client's interface and adding
a number of new features such
as integration with Windows
Live Contacts. The release,
numbered 8.0.566, also
supports colorization of the
entire Messenger window.
For now, Live
Messenger remains a private
beta test, but Microsoft is
encouraging users to invite as
many people as possible, and
the company is reportedly
accepting new applications
within 24 hours through
ideas.live.com. Developers
aren't offering a final
release date, but say it will
occur later this year.
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01.03.2006EC Commissioner proposes doubling terms of performers' copyright
"Oldies" music remains popular among many generations, which could present a window of opportunity for record companies in Europe to take
advantage of royalties terms expiring after 50 years. Today, the EC may be looking to shut that window...
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15.02.2008Live from Sony's (first) CES 2009 press event
It's Sony's answer to the netbook: its latest very slim P-series Vaio. But even that is taking a backseat to none other than Jeopardy! ,
another Sony property, complete with Alex Trebek live and in person...
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08.01.2009CES 2009 to keep rocking on, regardless of the economy
At a press event this evening, officials promised that, despite the gloomy economy, CES 2009 will continue to mix business with pleasure, with events
ranging from a new green computing area to a live performance by Diana Ross...
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12.11.2008Windows Live Hotmail gets an update
Thanks to the feedback of thousands of users who reported scrolling issues with the recent release of Windows Live Hotmail, Microsoft has rolled out
another update to customers fixing the issue. Users can now revert back to the classic Hotmail scrolling interface by turning off their reading pane
(Options -> Reading pane settings -> Off). Microsoft has also added back the hotkey to allowing customers to open their messages in a new window by
simply holding down the Shift key and clicking on the message. Customers are also seeing a return of the Today page when they sign into their Windows
Live Mail account.
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20.12.2008PINNED: WLM Build 566 Comming
Soon
Remember that little talk
about how the 562 build of
Windows Live Messenger was
just a preview; well here
comes the bride... I mean the
build. Build 566 of WLM is to
be released on February 28th
according to the WLM team
blog.
The
build will feature some
noticeable updates, mainly the
layout of the Contact List,
the tabs have now been
repositioned inside the main
window, the spacing between
each contact has been reduced
to allow more contacts to be
viewable in the window (= less
scrolling) and the avatar
preview and display
name/personal messages boxes
are finally back to the left
side again.
A
few of the minor updates
include the fact that the
menus are now only available
through the drop down menu,
meaning you can no longer
expand or minimize the window
frame like before. Also, the
ink/type tabs in the
conversation window have been
moved to the right side closer
to your display picture.
It has also been
announced that the WLM team is
working on new status icons
that both look good and show
the status at the same
time.
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28.02.2006Application Specific Glass Colorization in Windows 7?
Microsoft might be introducing application specific glass renderings. The color of the glass frame around a window can be changed in Vista, but the
change is global to the system. The color of any particular window glass frame can not be set by choice. But, how about being able to change the
color/opacity level of a the glass frame of any application through defined events or commands? According to a Patent number 7418668:
A
method for changing a color value and/or level of opacity value of a glass appearance window frame for an application window is described. The method
includes steps of determining a defined color value and a defined level of opacity value to apply to a glass appearance window frame and displaying
the glass appearance window frame in accordance with the defined color value and the defined level of opacity value. A command may be received to
apply the defined color value and the defined level of opacity value to the glass appearance window frame, thereby applying the defined color value
and level of opacity value to the glass appearance window frame. Color values and/or level of opacity values may be changed automatically, be
application specific, and/or be changed in response to receipt of an input from a user to change one or more portions of a default configuration.
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06.09.2008Live Mesh Introduces Online Media Viewer
The
most recent update to
Windows Live Mesh has added a new and useful feature to the Live Mesh Desktop called Media Viewer. With this, you can
open rich media files like photos and videos right from your desktop found at mesh.com. The Silverlight player has built-in controls for pausing
videos and making them go full screen, but it doesnt yet include any advanced seek options like rewind, fast forward, or a slider. However, it does
have two arrows - one on each side - which will take you to either the next or the previous video in your Live Mesh folder. Pretty cool!
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10.03.2009Microsoft Tech-Ed Europe 2009 - Live Keynote
Microsoft kicks off Tech-Ed Europe today in Berlin, Germany. The TechEd Europe 2009 keynote with Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft Business
Division, and Robert Wahbe, Corporate Vice President of the Server and Tools, will discuss the state of IT and the new generation of business
solutions available from Microsoft. Immediately following the keynote, there will be an Executive Q&A. The webcast will feature Chris Capossela,
Senior Vice President of the Information Worker Product Management Group, Bob Kelly, Corporate Vice President of Server and Tools Marketing and Tami
Reller, Corporate Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Windows & Windows Live. We have embedded the Keynote which is due to kick off at
2:30PM GMT (3:30pm CET, 6:30am PT).
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09.11.2009The Choice Is Clear: Universities Worldwide Select Microsoft Live@edu
Momentum continues worldwide for Microsoft Live@edu: several new universities have recently signed on for the no-charge suite of communication and
collaboration tools for students, faculty, staff and alumni. By signing up for Live@edu, the schools gain access to Microsoft Office Outlook Live for
e-mail, Microsoft Office Live Workspace to share documents and collaborate, Windows Live Messenger for instant messaging, and Windows Live SkyDrive
for 25 GB of online data storage space.
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22.06.2009Live Search default on HP PCs in 2009
Microsoft today announced that it has won a key distribution deal with HP, the worlds largest PC manufacturer, to install a Live Search-enabled
toolbar on all HP consumer PCs planned to ship in the United States and Canada, beginning in January 2009. As part of this deal, the default search
engine setting in the browser on all HP consumer PCs will also be set to Microsoft Live Search.
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02.06.2008Windows Helps Consumers Connect to the Digital World
At CES 2009, Microsoft announced advances in Windows 7 beta, Windows Mobile, Windows Live all designed to help consumers connect and live a life
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08.01.2009Windows Live Messenger Goes Final and More
After a year in the making, the Windows Live Messenger production has come to an end, and to the delight of thousands of people.
The
Download Page has been updated with build 353 (the final version) and is
available for download now. It hasn't been extensively tested yet, but it's presumable that the countless bugs testers received in previous betas
have been resolved; most notably several serious problems that were spotted when running it with Windows 7.
Complimenting the release of
WLM 2009, the "Messenger Plus!" team has announced a release of the compatible (build 4.80) version of the patcher to be before the end of the
month.
This seems promising. Hopefully the two will work well together, and we can FINALLY get what we've been asking for in the entire
WLM experience.
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