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Windows Live Favorites will help you:
• Easily import your current Favorites to Windows Live Favorites and use them right away
• Add new sites to your Windows Live Favorites with a single click
• Collect and save new links even when you’re away from your home computer
Manage your favorites: Windows Live Favorites V1
MSN Messenger is an instant messaging program that lets you send instant messages with cool emoticons, send pictures and other files to your friends, see when someone is typing a message to you, page a contact’s mobile phone, and much more.
Chat online, in real time, with friends, family, and colleagues. It’s faster than e-mail, more discreet than a phone call, and best of all — it’s free! MSN Messenger is more than just text, it’s a great way to collaborate with co-workers or touch base with family and friends. You can even send an instant message to a contact’s mobile phone. Customization features help you personalize your chats and make your connections even more meaningful.
Download: MSN Messenger 7.5.0322
Windows Live Mail beta: Sleek and simple, with added security
What it is
Fast and simple e-mail that makes it easy to read, send and organize your messages.
What it gives you
• Previews of your messages you can read without leaving your inbox
• Drag-and-drop organization
• One-click control over junk and scam e-mails
• Right-click power–reply, delete, and forward
• 2 GB of storage (2 GB = 2,000,000,000 bytes)
Get it now Windows Live Hotmail
MSN Weather Add-in for MSN Search Toolbar keeps the local three-day weather forecast at your fingertips and take advantage of these innovative features:
Easy to use: Your three-day forecast and current conditions for your favorite city.
Search: Find and change location directly from the Weather Add-in.
Consistency: Your favorite location is shared between MSN?Ç¬Æ Weather and the Weather Add-in.
Download: MSN Weather Add-in for MSN Search Toolbar 1.0.1536.0
In a move that counters Google’s successful advertising programs, Microsoft’s MSN unit on Monday launched its own paid-search advertising program in France and said it plans to begin testing the system in the United States next month.
MSN AdCenter, which debuted in Singapore at the end of last month, allows advertisers to launch highly targeted online keyword search-based campaigns, with the ability to include or exclude target customers based on geographic location, gender and age and to run ads only during certain times and days.
The system competes with Google’s AdWords program and will eventually replace a keyword-based advertising program MSN contracts out to Yahoo. It has a simple user interface and is notable for its use of customer profiling, taking advantage of the data MSN gathers from its more than 9 million subscribers.
“With the competing products you buy a word. On ours you go into detailed level and see who is searching for words,” said Eric Hadley, senior director of advertising and marketing for MSN. “You can plan an (ad) buy based on the people and say, ‘I’m willing to pay this much for this demographic, and I don’t want these people in the mix.’”
Full article: CNET News.com
Stay on top of news, weather, and e-mail with the next step in the evolution in screen savers. With the MSN Screen Saver (Beta), you can display your photos, click news headlines, check the local weather, display your friends photos and blogs from their MSN Spaces, and set up your own RSS news feeds.
With the new MSN Screen Saver (Beta) you can:
· Personalize with background photos and news and weather information from MSN? or any RSS feeds from websites you choose.
· Search the Web and click news headlines directly from the Screen Saver.
· Stay connected with MSN Hotmail, MSN Messenger, and MSN Spaces. Track how many unread Hotmail messages and current Messenger conversations you have, and display blogs and photos from your friends MSN Spaces.
New in this release:
-The Screen Saver no longer requires the MSN Search Toolbar (it’s now an optional install)
-Weather update & zip code issues resolved
-Improved help pages
Requires Microsoft Windows XP/Server 2003/2000 & Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 or later
Download: MSN Screen Saver Beta
Aiming to step up its battle against malicious Web sites, Microsoft said Wednesday that its MSN unit will offer a browser add-in that will help identify both known scam sites as well as those that appear suspicious.
Microsoft is already building similar “antiphishing” features into Windows Internet Explorer 7, the next version of its browser. In the new browser, users will be interrupted and warned when they try to go to a site that is known to deceptively try to grab personal information, a practice known as phishing. Those who go to sites not known as scam sites, but whose behavior appears suspicious, will see a warning.
MSN product manager Justin Osmer said that his unit will offer the same technology in a similar manner to users of the current Internet Explorer 6 browser via a plug-in to the free MSN toolbar that works in conjunction with IE6.
Full article: ZDNet News
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