MSN upgrades Messenger, Hotmail
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The MSN network of Internet services has introduced updates to its free communication services to make e-mail, instant messaging and online sharing easier and more personal for consumers.
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Microsoft has switched from McAfee&#39;s anti-virus technology to Trend Micro&#39;s for its free Internet E-mail service MSN Hotmail.
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AJAX Toolkit Framework upgrade to help consolidate frameworks and extend supported browsers.
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Latest version of Yahoo Messenger rocks with new interface, call forwarding, synchronized videos and photos, and new emoticons.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft has released the final version of its new IMÂ client optimized for Windows Vista. Windows Live Messenger 8.1 offers enhancements that make it more compatible with Vista,Â which had its widespread consumer release on Tuesday. Updates in the IM client include new looks for emoticons, contacts, and display photos that take advantage of Vista's new and improved user interface, Microsoft said. Microsoft also added the ability to send an SMS (short message service) to a phone number or add phone numbers for contacts by clicking on a cell-phone icon in the client's main window. Also new is the ability to send a personal message when users want to add a new contact to their contact list. Windows Live Messenger 8.1 also includes a "roaming identity" feature that allows not only a person's display name to follow users any place they sign into, but also their display picture and personal message. In addition to new features, the software's final version corrects a problem users were having with beta versions, according to a post on the Inside Windows Live Messenger blog, which is written by members of the team working on the product. A user with an old version of Adobe's Flash technology on Vista would crash the Windows Live Messenger 8.1 beta client, wrote Nicole Steinbok, product manager for Windows Live Messenger. However, the final version of the software fixes that. "I still highly recommend you update your Flash player if you haven't already," Steinbok wrote in the post. "But if not, we have put in an extra safety measure [that] disable features that use Flash and provides you a way to upgrade to eliminate the Flash crash." Windows Live Messenger also is available in eight new languages: Bulgarian, Estonian, Croatian, Latvian, Romanian, Serbian Latin, Thai, and Ukrainian. Microsoft rival YahooÂ also plans a release of its Yahoo Messenger IM client that is optimized for Vista. Yahoo previewed the IM client at theÂ Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month and will put out a beta by June, with a version to follow in the third quarter of the year.
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Gizmo Project VoIP software now lets you chat with AIM and MSN Messenger users on the same network.
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Rollout of messaging and mail integration begins this week.
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Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has taken another step to bolster its Web e-mail service, MSN Hotmail, by tying it with its popular desktop application Outlook. For a US&#36;59.95 yearly subscription fee, customers can use Outlook Live when accessing their Hotmail accounts. The company is offering a reduced introductory price of &#36;44.95 through April 19th.
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Microsoft says update improves setup and overall usability. HP had said it was waiting for the update before it released its first product using the software.
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Beta application is available as part of the new MSN Toolbar Suite.
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Microsoft has launched a set of toolbars under the MSN brand. Plugging into Windows, Outlook and Internet Explorer, they index documents and email in the background and allow fast querying.
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Microsoft's weekly patch dispatch includes an update for Windows Defender, which ships with the new operating system. By the Associated Press.
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Microsoft has delayed beta testing of the next version of MSN Messenger because of a security flaw. Vulnerabilities were discovered in MSN Messenger 7.0, due to be released today, after testers found it had
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By Anonymous  Microsoft has launched a ramped-up, global hotmail to reach users worldwide, its first major upgrade since 1996. Windows Live hotmail, an adfunded service.will run in 36 languages and give advertisers access to more than 280 million users.
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Microsoft&#39;s Hotmail and Yahoo have promised to boost storage limits for their free e-mail services, but for many users, the upgrades haven&#39;t been delivered.
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Drawing a bead That hugely popular office time-waster, the USB Missile Launcher, has been upgraded again, this time with an integrated webcam and the ability to be targeted using Microsoft's MSN instant messaging app.â¦
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Microsoft has released a beta of the new free e-mail program, along with new Messenger and Writer betas.