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Microsoft Officially Facebooks, Oops Socializes Windows Live Internet Services
Microsoft Officially Facebooks, Oops Socializes Windows Live Internet Services
Microsoft officially rolled out the next version of its Windows Live Services tonight, with a heavy emphasis on socializing them and giving users better tools to share all sorts of information from across the Web. Microsoft (MSFT) said the changes–similar to those made by Yahoo ...
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windowslive.com — Toolbar Search instantly from any Web page. Learn more Family Safety Manage and monitor your children's Web... experience so they can surf the Internet more safely. Learn more Writer Compose your blog, add your photos and links to your video, then ... (more) Explore Windows Live
Windows Live Wire: Windows Live – Keeping your life in sync
Windows Live Wire: Windows Live – Keeping your life in sync
windowslivewire.spaces.live.com — I’m Brian Hall, and I lead the Windows Live business group. Today is a very exciting day... for Windows Live – for the hundreds of people who work on building and delivering Windows Live, for the hundreds of millions of people who use Windows Live, and ... (more) Windows Live Wire: Windows Live – Keeping your ...
Sweeping Changes At Live.com: It’s A Social Network!
Sweeping Changes At Live.com: It’s A Social Network!
techcrunch.com — Microsoft’s Live.com portal will change significantly this evening. No longer will it be a simple search engine... with a few other services bolted on. It’s now a social network, too, pulling in activity information and content from ... (more) Sweeping Changes At Live.com: It’s A Social Network!
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And Now, Windows Live Is a Social Network
paidContent — ... ) has launched a new version of its Windows Live service, whatever it was before (search plus its myriad communication services tacked on it), and now it is a full blown social network, with the idea to integrate all the disparate MSFT online services, as well as allow other third-party services to be embedded within in. Also, it has the now de rigueur news feed, a la Facebook, which lets you track your friends and their activities. Apparently people who ...

Coming Soon: Updated Windows Live Online Services
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life — ... I'll leave some links and screenshots from various blogs showing our baby off. From TechCrunch: Sweeping Changes At Live.com: It’s A Social Network! From Windows Live Wire:Windows Live – Keeping your life in sync   From Mary Jo Foley on All About Microsoft: Windows Live Wave 3: Microsoft’s kinder and simpler consumer services strategy? From Kara Swisher on BoomTown: Microsoft Officially Facebooks, Oops, Socializes Windows Live Internet Services ...

Microsoft Live Morphs Into Social Network -- But Don't Call It That
Wired: Epicenter — ... “No one wants to sign up for another social network,” Brian Hall, general manager of the Windows Live, told AllThingsD. “But everyone does want to be able to share and bring together all they do on the Web and we want to make sure all our users can do that in the easiest way possible.” ...

Microsoft gets social with new Live
Lost Remote — ... While Yahoo is changing its home page to allow users to bring in third-party apps that fit their lives, Microsoft is relaunching Windows Live to bring together your friends’ content from Flickr, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yelp and many more services. This content is then organized into a Facebook-like feed (see a ...

Windows Live Announcements recap: What a week we’re having!
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews — ... Hotmail, and early look Our interview with Brian Hall Part 1 Our interview with Brian Hall Part 2: Demo Selected posts on Windows Live Internet Services: www.windowslive.com MS PressPass: Microsoft Introduces Updated Windows Live Services Windows Live Virtual Press Kit Brian Hall: Windows Live keeps your life in sync Kara Swisher: MS “Facebooks” WL services Omar Shahine: WL People and the ...

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