Posts Tagged ‘windows live messenger’

August 30 2009

TBot – Windows Live Messenger Translation Bot

Windows Live Messenger now has a translation bot, that will help you translate text from one language to another over IM. Simply add mtbot@hotmail.com to your messenger list and start talking!

July 9 2009

Free OCS Public IM connectivity for Windows Live Messenger

Microsoft has made licensing changes on the Public  instant-messaging (IM) connectivity supported by Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS).
Live Communications Server Public IM Connectivity (LCS PIC) license has been renamed to “Office Communications Server Public IM Connectivity (OCS PIC). Those with certain OCS Client Access Licenses (CALs) will no longer require Public [...]

December 30 2008

I’m a-Live!

The hosting company that hosts my website over at www.shijaz.com was upgrading their servers, and they wanted me to make some DNS changes so that I can point to the new servers.
I considered this a good opportunity to make use of Windows Live, the free hosting services from Microsoft. It rocks!
To make use of this [...]

November 25 2007

Did you know?

There are over 450 million “active” users on Windows Live Messenger every month. That’s almost 8% of the world’s population. Bearing in mind that only 19% of the world’s population uses the internet, this is 40% of all internet users worldwide.

An “active” user is one who spends at least 12 hours per month in [...]

August 29 2007

The mystery of blocked audio/video in MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger

On the ISA Server forums and newsgroups, a common query we see is regarding blocking/unblocking Windows Live Messenger or MSN Messenger using the ISA firewall.
Blocking is easy. Microsoft has also come up with a KB article which explains how you can do just that, using either ISA Server 2004 or ISA Server 2006.
Now how about [...]