Introducing Windows Live Solution Center
The Windows Live Team is at it again. Following the major release of the Windows Live Essentials 3 days ago, the team has released Windows Live Solution Center.
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19.12.2008 Introducing Windows Live Solution Center
The Windows Live Team is at it again. Following the major release of the Windows Live Essentials 3 days ago, the team has released Windows Live Solution Center.
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19.12.2008 Codename Nemo: Windows Live meets Media Center
Codename Nemo is designed to be an add-on for Windows Vista (Home Premium and Vista Ultimate editions), that integrates Spaces, Messenger and Live Call into a UI designed for large monitors and TVs.
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3.10.2006 Codename Nemo: Windows Live meets Media Center
Codename Nemo is designed to be an add-on for Windows Vista (Home Premium and Vista Ultimate editions), that integrates Spaces, Messenger and Live Call into a UI designed for large monitors and TVs.
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10.4.2006 AMD Live! Media Center PCs Rolled Out
AMD has announced that Live! media center PCs are available with an enhanced entertainment suite.
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13.10.2006 Windows 7 Solution Accelerator MAP Toolkit 4.0 Beta
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit is a solution accelerator designed to streamline the deployment of the latest technologies from the Redmond company.
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17.6.2009 Microsoft's SSL-based VPN Solution
The US IT security company Whale is to cooperate with Microsoft to expand Microsoft's Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server to include an SSL-based VPN solution for encrypted network connections.
This emerges from a press release by Whale. Besides an application-level firewall and an expanded Web-cache function Microsoft's ISA Server also offers a VPN solution, which so far has been exclusively IPSec-based.
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22.12.2005 Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator 3.1.2016.0
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator is an agentless tool that will find computers on a network and perform a detailed inventory of the computers using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), the Remote Registry Service, or the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
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30.6.2008 Windows Media Center
Windows Media Center has been a part of my life several years. I've watched functionality improve in each new version, and I'm already using beta versions of Windows Media Center in Windows Vista Ultimate as part of my daily routine.
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7.6.2006 First Looks at Windows Vista Media Center
Microsoft's Media Center Edition of Windows XP has had a hard time. Though it's hard to call it a poor seller, MCE certainly has a market penetration that represents only a tiny fraction of the many millions of computers running Windows XP. And why should it? Most users don't have nice hi-def TVs hooked up to their PCs, or TV tuners, or really any need to enjoy their music, video, and TV stored on their PC via a 10-foot user interface. It doesn't help that the first edition of Media Center wasn't very good, either. Then again, Microsoft bounced back with its second effort, Media Center Edition 2005, one of the most improved software products ever.
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1.12.2005 Windows 7: Action Center Overview
Over the next few weeks we will be adding many more focus items on Windows 7 including Touch, Internet Explorer 8, Windows 7 networking and media enhancements.
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9.1.2009 Introducing the Windows Vista Compatibility Center
At the Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 on July 8, in Huston, Texas, Brad Brooks, corporate vice president, Windows Consumer Product Marketing, announced that Microsoft was going to go live with the Windows Vista Compatibility Center.
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9.7.2008 Is Microsoft working on software center for Windows?
Questions arise as to why Windows Vista and Windows 7 have renamed the "Add and Remove Programs" to "Programs and Features", alongside "Windows Updates".
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23.1.2009 Windows Vista Media Center Now with Netflix
The latest step in the evolution of Windows Media Center in Windows Vista is synonymous with the integration of the Netflix service directly into the default component of Windows.
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20.5.2009 Cover Flow in Windows 7 Media Center
Media Browser is a fantastic plug-in for Windows Media Center in Windows 7 and Vista which brings the famous Cover Flow like browsing experience from OS X Finder and iTunes right to your Media Center experience in Windows 7 !
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15.8.2009 Windows XP Media Center Rollup #2 Download
The Hotfix has been able to obtain the new Windows Media Center Rollup #2 hotfix (previously known as codename "Emerald") from a Microsoft contact ahead of time. This rollup is said to include a lot of new features as well as fixes, including Xbox 360 support, new TV card support, and much more. For the download and information on the rollup package click the links below.
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Windows Mobile Device Center reaches RTM
Windows Mobile Device Center has finally reached RTM. In a statement on the Windows Vista Team Blog, the release of the final version was announced.
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4.2.2007 Download Windows 7 RTM Media Center SDK
Windows 7 General Availability will in just a few days be only two months away and Microsoft is laboring to catalyze the adaptation of the ecosystem of hardware and software solutions orbiting Windows to the latest iteration of the platform.
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17.8.2009 Windows Live Spaces goes Live!r. Our nameless source writes:
On Monday Microsoft began rolling out Windows Live Spaces, the next generation of the worlds most widely used blogging service, MSN Spaces. The new service includes social networking features designed to help users discover and connect with friends through their trusted contacts and allows customers to personalize their Windows Live Spaces with gadgets.
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2.8.2006 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 Media Center Survey for Possible Future Beta Testers
Microsoft is looking for people committed and interested in beta testing a future version of Windows Media Center.
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19.4.2007 Micro Center offering Windows 7 coupons for $39 and $89
We've just received a note from Neowin reader kilobyte1024 that let us know electronics retailer Micro Center is offering Windows 7 pre-orders for $10 less than the pre-order standard prices.
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26.6.2009 Office Live and Windows Live Call + Screenshots
After the announcements yesterday about Microsoft's new "live" services the company held a press conference detailing all the products in the Microsoft Live platform.
The company demoed an early version of Office Live, a managed web application for organising calendar, mail and contacts. Office Live will combine Web Hosting, Collaboration of Projects, Business Applications and Communications. Many expect a fully hosted version of Microsoft Office but this is not the company's intension for Office Live.
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New Windows Live Messenger Is Live, Web-Based
While it is in the process of forcing users of its IM client to upgrade to the latest version of the client-based application, Microsoft has introduced a new version of Windows Live Messenger.
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13.10.2009 Microsoft starts Windows Vista Media Center Beta applications
Microsoft recently began surveying current beta testers of Windows Vista to see which testers qualify for an upcoming Windows Vista Media Center Beta. The survey, which only current Vista testers can take, is located at Microsoft Connect.
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KB910393 Update for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
Microsoft has released KB910393 Update. This update is intended for systems running Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.
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20.11.2005 Installing and Configuring Away Mode for Windows Media Center Edition 2005
Away mode is a new feature included in Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 that allows the computer to appear off to the user while it continues to perform tasks that do not require user input.
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9.4.2006 Update for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (KB913800)
Update to address digital rights management (DRM) protected content failures after installing Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (KB900325).
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17.4.2006 Position Changer Add-In updated for Media Center in Windows Vista
Stephen Toub : Back in early 2005, I wrote an article for MSDN on implementing add-ins for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.
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5.1.2007 Microsoft releases Beta Windows Media Center SideShow Gadget
Brilliant, one of my very personal hot topics is Microsoft's SideShow technology for Windows Vista which is a technology for distributing interactive content to connected small-screen devices, such as Windows Mobile smartphones.
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6.7.2008Introducing Windows Live Solution Center
The Windows Live Team is at it again. Following the major release of the Windows Live Essentials release 3 days ago, the team has released Windows
Live Solution Center. The name is quite a cache thoug..
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19.12.2008Introducing Windows Live Solution Center
The Windows Live Team is at it again. Following the major release of the Windows Live Essentials release 3 days ago, the team has released Windows
Live Solution Center. The name is quite a cache though. Most would assume that the website would provide solutions for users using all of the Windows
Live products and services. However, the main focus of the new solution center at the moment is Windows Live Hotmail. The Windows Live team has stated
that more services will be covered in the new solution center at a later date, but that doesn't mean you absolutely cannot ask for help with other
Windows Live products and services.
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19.12.2008Windows Live Admin Center SDK V3.0
The Windows Live Admin Center SDK is intended for customers and partners who want to programmatically accomplish many of the administration tasks that
are available on the Windows Live Admin Center web site in addition to tasks that are not available on the Web site, such as importing and exporting
user lists.
The SDK uses the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) remote procedure call (RPC) 1.1 standard for communication
between client applications and the web servers for Windows Live Admin Center.
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17.11.2007Mail Desktop to become Mail
Center
Unsurprisingly given
yesterday's announcement that
the Windows Live Search client
will be called Windows Live
Search Center, Mail Desktop is
to follow suit and become
Windows Live Mail Center.
Ignoring the
fact that the spelling is
americanised and will
doubtlessly annoy millions of
non-US users, the name
doesn't describe the function
of the product nearly as well
as those of Search Center and
Safety Center, despite their
blandness. Maybe keeping users
unaware of the new RSS
integration is a blessing in
disguise though; much like
Live.com some serious work
needs to be done turning these
products into usable rss
aggregators.
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13.07.2006Where Media Center meets Windows Live?
Microsoft is apparently
working on Codename Nemo, an
add-on for Windows Vista's
Media Center component, which
will offer an all-in-one UI to
access some Windows Live and
MSN services. The add-on is
currently planned to offer, in
its debuts, Windows Live
Messenger, Windows Live Spaces
and Windows Live Call access
in its debuts, though this
might expand as time goes to
add MSN services or upcoming
Windows Live ones, such as MSN
Soapbox.
The
project has been showed off at
MGX 2006, and although it
appears to be on hold for now,
a beta release is expected
before the end of 2006.
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03.10.2006Windows Live Desktop Apps
Renamed
In order to lessen some
confusion surrounding its
Windows Live Web services and
desktop applications,
Microsoft has opted to rename
two of its products. The
Windows Live Search
application, formerly known as
OneView, will now be called
Windows Live Search Center...
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13.07.2006Windows Live Search Center: No
Windows Live?
The upcoming desktop search
application, previously called
as Windows Live Search Center,
will apparently not fall under
the Windows Live family, being
the second online
product/service which
surprisingly doesn't
integrate it, after MSN
Soapbox, released into a
limited beta version earlier
this week.
From
now on, the long-awaited
product will be called Windows
Search Preview, and is
supposedly "coming soon".
This announcement goes with
what the Windows Live Mail
Desktop team said last week,
about the Center naming
scheme, which seems to have
been abandoned after quite
some time called so.
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23.09.2006Windows Live Safety Center Now
Online
As one of the new Windows Live
services, Microsoft has
brought online a beta version
of its "Safety Center"
that does Web based scans of a
PC. The Safety Center utilizes
an Active X control to check
for and removes viruses, clean
up the "junk" on a
hard disk, and even schedule a
disk defragmentation if
needed...
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02.11.2005Windows Live Custom Domains renamed to Admin Center - New features added
Windows Live Custom Domains has today undergone its Wave 2 update that sees it renamed as
Windows
Live Admin Center, though the old url of
domains.live.com still works. This name change
reflects the wider array of features now offered by the service, which has transitioned from a hosted email service into a more complete Windows Live
package. The update now allows those who manage a domain to redirect a subdomain to a Windows Live Space, a Windows Live Map of a location you
specifiy, a Live Search page complete with custom macros or even a customised live.com page. To see what this means, check out the urls we've
redirected...
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10.11.2007Windows Media Center Gadgets for Windows SideShow Released
The Windows SideShow Team
has
announced that the final version of the Windows Media Center Gadgets for Windows SideShow is now available for download on Windows Live Gallery in
32-bit and 64-bit flavors!
Download:
Windows Media Center Gadgets for Windows SideShow
(32-bit) Download:
Windows Media
Center Gadgets for Windows SideShow (64-bit) The Windows Media Center Gadgets for Windows SideShow package is made up of the
following 4 Gadgets for your Windows SideShow device...
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22.10.2008Media Center University: Whole House Integration of Media Center Systems Part 4
MS Consumer Electronics Installer Blog: Our very own Todd Rutherford builds on previous Media Center University topics in the first half of his
presentation by providing guidance on integrating WMC with automation systems and designing the right WMC solution to meet the needs of the
customer.
Topics covered include:
Automation System Integration
- Controlling Media Center
from Control Systems
- Controlling Automation hardware from Media Center
- Hybrid Solution Options
Whole House Entertainment
- Understand the Customer's Entertainment Needs
- Choosing an
Architecture and Solution
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07.07.2008Windows 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...
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28.06.2007Microsoft Shatters the PC-to-Television Barrier
Watching a live TV broadcast in the living room, pausing it, and then effortlessly resuming it at the same moment from the bedroom or kitchen will
soon become even easier, as Microsoft Corp. provides a first look at the new Extenders for Windows Media Center platform, which will power a variety
of devices to be released this holiday season. A wave of new cool, quiet, home-theater-quality devices from companies such as Linksys, a division of
Cisco Systems Inc.; D-Link Corporation; and Niveus Media Inc. may incorporate new features, including live high-definition (HD) video, wireless
networking and expanded support for audio and video formats such as DivX and Xvid.
The new Extender devices, which will be
unveiled later this month in a variety of innovative form factors and price points, unleash the pictures, music, video content and live TV from a PC
running Windows Vista® Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate for viewing and listening on a big-screen TV display for the ultimate entertainment
solution.
With more than 60 million Windows Vista Media Center PCs in use worldwide, there are many customers eager to bring the
simple and elegant Media Center experience to the televisions in their homes, said Dave Alles, general manager for eHome at Microsoft. The new
Extenders for Windows Media Center make it easy to get a wide range of personal and Internet content not only on someones main TV but on all the TVs
in the house. Whether its a high-def show recorded from digital cable, new Internet video, or your personal library of pictures, music and videos, its
all on your television just a remote-click away...
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06.09.2007Windows Live for TV Entering Beta Soon
A few months ago, a
media-center like application
that integrates Windows Live
products had been announced,
though we never had a sign of
life from the project since
then until now. Today,
Microsoft is surprisingly
ready to send "Codename
Nemo", as it was called, in
beta stage under the name
Windows Live for TV.
The product will be sent
by mail during its beta
process, within United States
only, and you need to be
running Windows Vista Home
Premium or Ultimate to be able
to run it.
Windows Live for TV lets you
view Windows Live Spaces using
a 3D view and use Windows Live
Messenger and all of its
features in a nice, simplistic
Windows Live styled media
center interface. You can also
use a media center remote
control to navigate through
the interface.
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03.01.2007Microsoft integrates Windows
Live into Vista
Microsoft-Watch reports that
newer Windows Vista builds,
5506 and up, include
references to Windows Live
software by default in various
locations throughout the OS.
It is unknown yet if the
concerned products are
installed with Vista or if it
only contains download links
to it.
The
Welcome Center in Vista is the
place where most references
are found. In build 5506, it
contains icons for Windows
Live Messenger, Windows Live
OneCare, Windows Live Toolbar
and Windows Live Desktop Mail.
Additionnally, the Start Menu
apparently contains a Windows
Live Messenger icon.
Though this is only
speculation, this may mean
that Microsoft is finally
removing Windows Messenger
from its Windows products,
using instead Windows Live
Messenger.
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17.08.2006Windows Live QnA Update
As if the successive updates
of Live.com, Windows Live
Account, Windows Live Spaces,
Windows Live Ideas, Windows
Live Favourites and Windows
Live OneCare Safety Center
throughout the past month
weren't enough, yet another
Windows Live service has
quietly undergone a user
interface change today,
completing the integration
between those services by
implementing the "Flare"
header and the Windows Live
Orb.
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changes to the service are
unknown yet, since the team
didn't announce it yet,
though nothing else seems
important enough to be
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26.08.2006Neowin Hands on: Sky Player in Windows 7 Media Center
Microsoft today held a UK launch party for Windows 7 and announced a major partnership with Sky. Sky Player, Sky's online TV service, will be
available to Windows Media Center users in Windows 7. Sky previously announced the same service will be available on Xbox 360 later this month but
have now confirmed this will now be available to Windows 7 Media Center users too. The service will allow users access to Live TV, on demand content,
movies and sport. Existing Sky TV customers will be able to purchase an online Sky Player multiroom subscription for £5 per month. Customers
with Sky Multiroom or Sky Broadband Unlimited will be able to access live channels for no extra charge.
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22.10.2009System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 - Evaluation Software
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 is a comprehensive solution optimized for the management of Microsoft Windows Server operating
systems running in the virtualized data center.
Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) enables easy and fast consolidation of physical
machines onto virtual machine infrastructure and rapid provisioning of virtual workloads. VMM enables increased physical server utilization,
centralized management of virtual machine infrastructure, and rapid provisioning of new virtual machines by the administrator and certified end users.
When used together with the rest of the System Center family of products. VMM provides the best solution for leveraging existing IT administrative
skills and processes for managing the virtual and physical environment.
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14.09.2007Microsoft quietly shuts down Windows Live Help Community too
Microsoft has silently removed the
Windows Live Help Community service and the link
now redirects to Windows Live Help. This is one of the many Windows Live services being dropped in recent times. And Like Windows Live for TV, Help
Community never made it out of beta.
For those of you who don't remember, Microsoft released Windows Live Help Community back in
December 2006, providing another channel for users to get help for their Windows Live services. However, throughout the lifetime of the service, only
three services ever utilized Help Community - that is Windows Live Admin Center, Windows Live Call for Free, and Help Community itself.
As
noted back then on LiveSide, there seems to be too many help and feedback channels for Windows Live services, including:
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Help Central
Windows Live Account - Feedback
Live Search QnA
Windows Live Help Community (now removed)
Windows Live Message
Boards
Windows Live public newsgroups
Seems like Microsoft is finally getting their hands on to clean up the mess they've
created with Windows Live and Live Search.
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16.06.2008Windows Live ID: More Than
Passport With a Face
Microsoft still has yet to
take the official wraps off
its Windows Live Identity
service. But company execs are
sharing more details about how
Windows Live ID will be
positioned, vis-?-vis Passport
and InfoCard.
Instead of characterizing
Windows Live ID as Passport
2.0, Microsoft is talking it
up as the online
identity-authorization
solution for its growing
family of Live properties.
As we noted
back in 2004, Passport was
well on its way to becoming a
Microsoft-centric entity, with
third party partners
abandoning Passport, left and
right.
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