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Tuesday, December 19, 2006 11:59 AM

At last! Thank you Windows Live Messenger

Richard has noticed that Live Messenger includes a link to the forgotten your password web page. I've been harping on about how difficult it is to change your password or secret question in Messenger, and now we've included it at the sign in page. So
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Friday, December 08, 2006 3:28 PM

More IM on mobile phones

I blogged about our announcement the other week (we entered into a partnership with Orange). eWeek have noticed that Radicati have released a report showing how much more room for growth there is in this market. Radicati says business users want IM services
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Monday, November 27, 2006 3:00 PM

Messenger: Lost password or secret question

I blogged about this a couple of years ago, but I still get quite a few mails asking about resetting passwords on Live Messenger (MSN Messenger). Some people can't remember their password, some have had their account hacked, some cannot sign in. All of
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Tuesday, November 21, 2006 5:02 PM

Real Time Collaboration Webcasts for December

TechNet Webcast: Deploying Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 SP1 (Level 300) Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time Joe Schurman, Trainer, Connected Innovation LLC http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032314188&Culture=en-US
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Thursday, November 16, 2006 6:14 PM

The next User Group meeting

Both Nathan and Arthur have been nagging me recently. Nathan has a bit more influence at the moment as he's out here at ITForum and nags me everywhere I turn. Arthur, who runs the Unified Communications User group has a list of up and coming events, including
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Friday, November 03, 2006 1:16 PM

Instant phishing

I read this in the newswires about phishers taking over IM accounts and using these accounts to get personal details from you. SPIM (spam for Instant messaging) is something that would really bug me (if I got any). as my IM account is really simple to
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Friday, October 20, 2006 2:43 PM

The end of SMS?

Will this spell the end for SMS text messages on your phone then? I was reading the article in The International Herald Tribune about Steve Ballmer talking about the new services that Orange subscribers in Europe will be able to use soon. You can do real
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 6 Comments
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 1:20 PM

Unified Communications webcasts for November

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Unified Communications Overview (Level 100) Friday, November 03, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time Joe Schurman, Trainer, Connected Innovation LLC http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032313385&Culture=en-US
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Friday, September 22, 2006 2:06 PM

Web Office: Hype or reality?

I was really interested to read Richards post on the Web Office of the future and how we've evolved since the olden days of indicidual Word processing packages, spreadsheets, and email clients. I'm using a whole host of Web tools at the moment. Windows
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 4 Comments
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 11:42 PM

Unified Communications Webcasts for October

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Tips and Tricks for Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2005 (Level 100) Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time Evan Archilla, Senior Training Specialist, Projectline Services http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032309173&Culture=en-US
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Monday, August 21, 2006 7:11 PM

Instant messaging - anywhere

A lot of us are trying to get our heads around Web 2.0 and how it will affect the way we work on the web. People are driving the web - not the other way around. Think about commenting on blogs, subscribing to something on a Wiki - this is changing how
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 4 Comments
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 5:27 PM

Adding Speech to Office Comunications Server

I know that Speech Server isn't directly in my technical area so to speak, although I've mentioned it from time to time, but with the inclusion of Speech Server within Exchange Unified Messaging, and now with the announcement in the news that we're adding
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 6 Comments
Friday, July 28, 2006 4:36 PM

LCS 2005 and SQL 2005 - yes: together at last..

I get hassled about this quite a lot. Steven has been beating me up about it recently, and the other day I mailed to Lee explaining the reasons why we don't support SQL 2005 running on LCS 2005 . Oops.. Well we do now! James has all of the information
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Thursday, July 20, 2006 5:06 PM

Unified: A strategy but no communications?

I was interested to read the blog post from Microsoft Monitor the other day talking about our recent announcements on our Unified Communications Strategy. I was at the UC user group meeting on Tuesday (there's another one tonight too,) and it was really
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 11 Comments
Thursday, July 13, 2006 5:42 PM

MSN Messenger and Yahoo talk to each other.

We've had this a while in our Live Communications Server product. The ability for corporate users to have contacts that are external to their company. We call it PIC ( Public Internet Connectivity ), and here's some information on it if you'd like to
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
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