Screen Shots: What Windows Live Is (and Isn't)

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• Tip for ZDNet

  A thumbnail so small that you can see nothing is a waste of web page space. Maybe you didn't understand but a thumbnail is a preview of the image, not page decoration.

  

  No_Ax_to_Grind

  12 February, 2007 09:15

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  • I can see them fine

    Maybe they've made changes now or it's a client configuration on your station that makes it so you can't see. Such as resolution or something. Just guessing here.

    

    voska

    12 February, 2007 09:46

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    • It's Ok..No_Axe Is Still In Shock

      Over the story from a well-respected person in the security field in IT saying that Vista is not worth upgrading to.
      
      Once the shock is over he'll be back to his usual shilling.

      

      itanalyst

      12 February, 2007 21:23

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      • Oh please ,,,

        I like No_Axe this way much better . I hope he doesn't recover . I noticed how he couldn't stick to the subject , instead he focused on the thumbnails . That is CLASSIC .

        

        Intellihence

        13 February, 2007 04:51

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        • No_Ax_to_Grind...

          No_Glasses_to_See_With
          No_Point_to_Make
          
          Pretty much sums up No_ax.

          

          Scrat

          13 February, 2007 05:51

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        • Well said...

          That pretty much sums it up.

          

          ogmanx@...

          13 February, 2007 06:31

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  • RE: Tip

    I'm having a hard time with these images as well.
    
    gary

    

    gdstark13

    13 February, 2007 07:38

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• IBM's Live App Suite Supports Apple/Linux

  Unlike the offering from Microsoft, another desperate attempt to lock in their customers wanting the greater flexibility and reduced cost of live applications.
  
  http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/Infotech/Hardware/IBM_aims_to_lower_cost_of_using_Linux_Apple_PCs/articleshow/1594892.cms
  
  Only with Microsoft they charge you to be locked in to their product. Another great deal from Redmond.

  

  Chad_z

  12 February, 2007 09:27

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• Firefox 3 to support offline web application support

  Firefox 3 to support offline web application support
  Posted in Tech, Cool by Derek at 5:00 pm
  
  Read/WriteWeb [via] has an interesting and promising article that supports the
  idea that Firefox 3 will offer offline support for everyones favorite web apps
  including Gmail among others.
  
  An interesting tidbit came out of the recent Foo Camp New Zealand (which
  unfortunately I wasn?t able to attend). Robert O?Callahan from Mozilla, who is
  based in NZ but drives the rendering engine of Mozilla/FireFox, spoke about how
  Firefox 3 will deliver support for offline applications. This is significant because
  you?ll be able to use your web apps - like Gmail, Google Docs & Spreadsheets,
  Google Calendar, etc - in the browser even when offline. I deliberately mentioned
  all Google web apps there, because of course this plays right into Google?s hands.
  
  Looks like Firefox is going to play an integral role in squashing the idea that
  consumers should have to pay for productivity software. Farewell Microsoft Office,
  I won?t miss you. Will anyone else? Aside from the corp. zombies forced into using
  the MS line, who else is going to miss being locked to an application?
  
  
  The story can be read here at UnEasySilence
  
  http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/02/9594/

  

  Intellihence

  12 February, 2007 19:29

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• Give it a rest will you No-Axe !

  The thumbnails are fine , I see you aren't . :^) Finally your BUBBLE has been bursted ! ROTFLMAO ,,,

  

  Intellihence

  13 February, 2007 04:57

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• Questions answered - er - well - not answered

  I agree with No-Ax, those web page images were barely discernable and then only for the larger words. As I have not used any Windows Live Services I still have no idea what it is and isn't. What bothers me is all those webpage images, how long do they take to load. Without a T1 line how is Windows Live going to improve my Internet experiences.

  

  shanedr

  13 February, 2007 07:22

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• Confused Thinking by Committee

  It appears that Microsoft is marketing, under the "Live" umbrella, a hodge-podge of different apps, each app designed by a different committee, each committee determined to tell us how we think when we use an app.
  
  If the overall theme is "live communication\access" then surely there is a way to have some common intuitiveness shared across this jumble of tools.

  

  blue_orion

  13 February, 2007 07:51

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• Thanks for clearing this up

  I didn't know what Live was, but now I know I can't wait to use the "Windows Live
  Voicemail Messenger Center Search Alert Favorites Gallery Storage Gadget for MSN
  Live Hotmail for Windows Live Mobile (beta)" (also known as
  WLVMMCSAFGSGMSNLHWLM) (code name "MacKiller"). This is great stuff! Still not
  sure if the desktop or the online version will work better for me.

  

  dolph0291

  13 February, 2007 09:50

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• I'm dumbfounded

  I can't understand why a technology company would come up with a branding scheme and then have so many different widgets they put into it in such a chaotic manner. It makes Microsoft look really, really stupid. They are acting just the like actor that parodies them in the Apple commercials.
  
  Let me clarify why I am saying this. I am not anti-microsoft. I use Windows and Office daily. I dual boot XP and Vista. I was puzzled by Microsoft pushing, "Get Live," without making it clear just what live is. I had the urge to grab someone and tell them to tell me, "WHAT IS IN LIVE?: They are clearly fishing, throwing a bunch of stuff in, hoping people will play with it and that by sheer shotgun method, something in there might become a killer app.

  

  Insight Driver

  13 February, 2007 09:59

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• Gobble-Gook

  The title to every "service" is 4-6 words long (I count ONECARE as TWO words). Look, nobody says Microsoft Windows Excel. Drop the word Windows from all titles--we know it's Windows from all the logos. Consolidate all the searches and IM apps together.
  
  Oh, what does LIVE mean? If I mention any of these titles to a friend that's the first question I get. Maybe we should nail that first!
  
  JerryS

  

  jsaale@...

  13 February, 2007 10:45

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  • PAPA, it means 1 thing ONLY

    THAT THEY ARE STILL ALIVE AFTER THE BIG QUAKE OF GOOGLE SHAKING THEM UP

    

    sergiovf@...

    15 February, 2007 17:41

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    • ALIVE

      LOL...Alas the Giant won't lose so easily...Google has a long long way to shake up The Empire... I love Microsoft

      

      NOLFXceptMe

      5 March, 2007 08:14

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• actor parody

  I dont have much to add to the debate about windows live - I would prefer to have windows Alive - meaning it would not crash - ever!
  
  However the actor portraying MAC in the adverts comes across (in the UK) as a rather smug clever know it all , exactly the sort of person most of us find quie unpleasant - the bumbling family man with the big grin is probably how most of us see ourselves in reality.
  
  Why arent MACS gaining dominance - simple, there policy of not allowing third party cloning and self build, keeps the pricing at a level that most ordinary people will walk away from.
  
  The truth is the MAC does not want to replace the PC they prefer to sit in a niche specialist marketplace, along with high end HiFi and expensive TVs - which are the toys that people who want to show they have more money than the average person, buy to make themselves feel good!

  

  cymru999

  14 February, 2007 01:12

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  • MAC Actor

    It's not just the UK, the "Mac Human" comes off precisely that way to me too here in the good ol' Yew-ess-ov-ay.
    
    Maybe I'm just too stodgy (not to mention OLD) to comprehend how undeniably cool and with-it Macs are (or so they would have us believe) and are naturally entitled to every bit of the smug arrogance the ads portray.
    
    To me they just appear like yet another post adolescent slacker with an attitude problem.
    
    Stephen Posey
    slposey@concentric.net

    

    stephenlposey@...

    5 March, 2007 12:56

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• Live or Dead?

  Live shimive, I'm still having problems with MSN Explorer. Had the problem on my old computer, updated to XP Pro. from '98' thought it was due to an old graphics card. Now I have a fairly new sysrem running XP Media Edition and it still happens. I get artifacts from the page or desktop below popping through to the page I'm viewing. I contact MSN and I wait for ever for a response, Then I get to send them Screen shots, now I'm still waiting to hear back. Vista, Upgrade to Vista? Don't see how that would help MSN Explorer. Now they want to through in a bunch of other stuff to make my life easier? Get what ya already got running properly first, before you move on to some other project. I hate it when someone leaves a job half done amd moves on to something else leaving others to figure out what to do next. But that seems to be their forte'. And I pay extra for MSN Premium? What for? Sure isn't for the service.

  

  ronfdunn@...

  15 February, 2007 23:17

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