Monthly Archive for July, 2006

Happy Birthday Hotmail!

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Dan
2 years, 4 months ago
in Windows Live Hotmail
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Independence Day this year marked the 10th anniversary since the commercial launch of Hotmail.

Ten years on, we are about to see the biggest upgrade for Hotmail, or rather a complete replacement, with Windows Live Mail.

Interested in a bit of history? Take a look at the MSN Hotmail fact sheet or at Wikipedia. The Hotmail homepage looked a bit bare in 1996.

I just read at Omar’s blog that you can find out when you registered by signing in at account.live.com. I’ve been curious about that for some time, now I know my two were registered on 19 November 1999 and 12 November 2003.

Bug fixes to add-ins feature

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Dan
2 years, 5 months ago
in Windows Live Messenger
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Windows Live Messenger

Last week when Windows Live Messenger 8 was released, Katie Blanch mentioned a few bug fixes to the add-ins feature:

  • A possible crash when an add-in throws an unhandled managed exception.
  • Encoding/Decoding issues for action messages that would cause unicode characters to not display properly.
  • Issues sending messages if you specify a large name for your add-in.

You can find out more about the Window Live Messenger add-ins functionality at it’s documentation at MSDN and the Messenger section at Windows Live Dev.