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Minimise Me Brings IM Avatars to Live

Minimise Me is a collaboration between Microsoft and MRM Worldwide (UK) that allows WLM users to easily create their own personalized character to use for their profile picture.

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Make the Most of Live Mesh

Taking a moment to highlight a couple of things on the Internet related to Live Mesh.

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Live Mesh Now Live…Sorta

I have been looking forward to having a crack at Live Mesh. Until recently, accessing the technical preview of Live Mesh has required submitting your name and crossing your fingers that you might be selected to join in the meshing fun.

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Yet Another New Face - Welcome From Germany

We Got Served's international focus expands with a new name, familiar to Windows Live enthusiasts, reporting for We Got Served from Germany - please give a big welcome to Gregor Herdmann.

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Will We See OneCare for Windows Home Server?

Joe Wilcox revealedlast week that Microsoft are preparing a new version of Windows Live OneCare for Windows Server - the product will be bundled with Windows Small Business Server and Essential Server 2008, providing 12 months of free anti-virus protection for those systems. Given the relationship between SBS and WHS (and the closeness of the teams [...]

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Don’t All Shoot At Once :)

So first of all hello everyone! As Terry mentioned I work for Microsoft and I’m pretty active in the Media Center / WHS circles both internally and externally. I also take part in the Microsoft Champion program which I’ll speak a bit more about in a minute. I do want get the quick disclaimer out first. [...]

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Windows Live Hotmail

I talked briefly the other day about Microsoft’s sometimes bizarre branding choices - often clunky, sometimes, just plain silly. They’ve done it again. You take the decision to rebrand some MSN services as Windows Live services, not all, just some. So Hotmail, becomes Windows Live Mail. Then you realise that actually Hotmail is quite a [...]

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