You may already know that once you sign up a Hotmail account, the Hotmail account automatically becomes your Windows Live ID which enables you to have access to all Windows Live services, such as Live Messenger, Mail, etc. But do you know how much free cloud storage space you can get after sign up? Windows Live Hotmail: 5 GB (not available to some regions) Windows Live Workspace: 5 GB. A service competing with Google Docs […]
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If you are a Bing cashback customer, you should get hurry to get your cashback redeemed because the program will be discontinued after July 30, 2010, according to Microsoft Bing cashback team: According to the letter, Bing cashback Team is working on a new program to replace the current cashback program. I am wondering what it is.
I bet every Outlook user knows how to create rules in Outlook to help organize email, and Outlook 2010 extended this feature by adding a new feature called “Quick Steps” to help user organize email even better and faster. The Quick Steps feature allows user to predefine a series of actions that user would like to performs on an email. For example, if you receive a request from a customer and the request requires your […]
Good news for Microsoft Office Live Workspace users! Microsoft Office Live Workspace account will be upgraded to Windows Live SkyDrive very soon, which means it will become a part of Windows Live SkyDrive and as a result user’s space will be increased to 25GB SkyDrive from the current 5GB Workspace. The upgrade will be automatic and all your Workspace files will be moved to your SkyDrive automatically. The upgrade plan consists of two phases, during […]
IE 9 Platform Preview is currently not compatible with Windows Live Calendar. Here is a calendar correctly displayed in IE 8: But in IE 9 Preview (version 1.9.7745.6019), it becomes this: As you can see, all events are missing. I submitted a bug on Microsoft Connect regarding this issue, and hopefully it will be fixed in the next release.
There are 11 ways to tell if your web host sucks. Gerald Webber pointed out 10 ways, and Matt Mullenweg at WordPress pointed out another one. You should read them to see if it is time for you to change your web host.
I hope someone can help me get this Windows Update problem in Vista fixed: Error(s) found: Code 80072EFD. I have tried this Microsoft Help & How-to (Windows Update error 80072efd), and also tried all methods in this Microsoft Knowledge Base article, and neither helped. The interesting thing is that Microsoft Update works perfectly. My computer is running Vista 64-bit version and is on a domain, and I am thinking maybe something wrong with the […]
As shown in my last post, Firefox 3.6.2 didn’t pass the Acid3 Test with a score 94/100, 6 points away from passing the test. Today, I downloaded Firefox 3.7 Pre-release 4 and ran the Acid3 Test again to see if the new Firefox will do better. The result showed that Firefox 3.7 Pre-release 4 did do a better job than Firefox 3.6.2, but unfortunately it still didn’t pass the test, having a score of 96/100. […]
Microsoft released a platform preview for Internet Explorer 9 last week and I downloaded and installed it today, and compared some results with IE8, Firefox 3.6.2 and Google Chrome 4.1.249 and would like to share the results with you. First, the release notes of Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview is here. This version can only be installed on Windows Vista SP2 or Windows 7, so check your system before download. Even if your system does […]
FireFox 3.6 Release Candidate is available for download now. If you are using FireFox 3.6 beta version, the update is automatic. The release candidate may update itself periodically and eventually be updated to the final version of FireFox 3.6.