Technologizer

Windows Live: It’s Live! I Think! Partially! Stay Tuned for More!

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Here’s an undeniable fact about Microsoft: It’s congenitally incapable of springing surprises on anyone. When Google unleashes a new service or improvements to an existing one, it’s typically with no warning, and the new stuff is available immediately or within a few hours to all comers. Microsoft, on the other hand, tends to give advance [...]

Windows Live: It’s a Social Network! It Isn’t a Social Network!

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

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What is Microsoft’s Windows Live? It’s always been a surprisingly tough question to answer in a coherent sentence or two. Tonight, Microsoft took the wraps off its next version of Windows Live, and it’s still difficult to pin it down, in part because it just involves so much stuff, in both service and software form: [...]

No E-Mail, Photo Editing, and Movie Editing in Windows 7? What a Good Idea!

Monday, September 22, 2008

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Over at Cnet News, Ina Fried has posted some news that I find both startling and pleasing: Microsoft has told her that Windows 7 won’t come with applications for e-mail or for editing photos and movies. Windows Mail (née Outlook Express), Windows Photo Gallery, and Windows Movie Maker will live on, but as free downloadable [...]