This is my open letter to Redmond, my Jerry Maguire, if you will. I’ve been a huge Microsoft fan and advocate for the past 15 years, and I’ve seen their product line evolve from the early days of DOS, through various incarnations of Windows and Office, and now onward to software+services. I’ve taught people to …
Greg is now compatible with your iPod Zune
I recently had the honor of participating with Microsoft’s own Marcus in my first-ever podcast. For those of you who don’t know Marcus, he’s the community manager for Windows Live, and he keeps all of us WL enthusiasts connected and sharing our experiences, ideas, and occasional gripes surrounding the burgeoning social networking platform. In addition …
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I want to go to there
Say what you will about Microsoft, but they do occasionally blow off the doors, innovation-wise. In this 5-minute video montage called “2019,” the software company paints a picture of a world where technology is literally a functional extension of ourselves. It’s melded into our everyday lives in ways that we’re just beginning to realize. http://images.video.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swf …
Pin a favorite location
Windows Vista has a slew of little features that make file management much easier than ever before. In this article, I’ll show you how to create a link for quick access to your important files. If you routinely need to access content on a deeply buried network folder, for instance, then you could easily spend …
Sticky discussions in groups
I’m quite active in a number of popular communities in Windows Live Groups. The service is definitely still in its infancy, and even some of the more technical and experienced Windows Live users have had a difficult time wrapping their heads around the current feature set. I won’t attempt to provide a full review of …
Don’t sell out your friends
There are a lot of websites around that offer the ability to send content to your friends via e-mail. You simply enter your name, e-mail address, and the addresses of friends to whom you’d like to forward that little digital gem. You click Send, and away it goes. Boy, that was easy. Life is good. …
Who’s been commenting on my blog?
In an ongoing series of how-to’s based on questions I’ve received in my Windows Live Groups, this post shows you a couple of interesting ways to get the scoop on comments that your friends have left on your Windows Live Spaces blog. Blog summary At first blush, the most obvious method is to navigate to …
Hello, Facebook friends
After weeks of trying (in vain) to get Windows Live to invite my Facebook friends, this morning it finally seems to be working properly. Maybe it’s just coincidence, but I upgraded to the IE8 release candidate last night. If nothing else, perhaps my latest offering appeased the gods of technology, so they decided to smile …
Windows Live’s Rosetta stone
We all (at least the English speakers among us) tend to assume the language of our most visited pages to be English. When we do occasionally run into a foreign-language page, it leaves us feeling totally flummoxed and suddenly quite aware of just how diverse our world can be. For instance, check out this blog …
These are a few of my favorite things
Favorite websites. We’ve all got ‘em, and we want to share them with everyone who cares to know (and occasionally push them on those who really couldn’t care less). In this post, I’m going to discuss a couple of interesting ways to advertise your most beloved destinations on the web with your adoring fans, along …
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