Windows Live QnA

Windows Live QnA Beta is the place where you can ask your questions and get answered by experts, you can also help others by answering others questions. This is a lot similar to Yahoo! Answers.

Try the Windows Live QnA Beta.

Get the latest info on Live QnA.

11 March 2008 in Beta Testing & Live & Web Services | Comments (0)

Windows Live FolderShare

Windows Live FolderShare is the revamped newer version of FolderShare. Windows Live FolderShare helps you to sync the folders between multiple computers.

All you need to do is to download and install the Windows Live FolderShare Client in your PCs and access your files from any computer on the Internet. . FolderShare can sync files up to 2 GBs in size and works on both Windows and Mac.

Windows Live FolderShare is in Beta so you can report the bugs you come across here.

Keep updated on the lastest on Windows Live FolderShare from the Team Blog.

Alternative Windows Live FolderShare Client download link.

11 March 2008 in Beta Testing & Live & Web Services | Comments (0)

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Released

Microsoft has released the Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Public Beta Testing.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/Install.htmIE 8 has a host of new features, which includes

• Activities - Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage. Users typically copy and paste from one webpage to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do.
• WebSlices - WebSlices is a new feature for websites to connect to their users by subscribing to content directly within a webpage. WebSlices behave just like feeds where clients can subscribe to get updates and notify the user of changes.
• Favorites Bar - In Internet Explorer 7, the Links bar provided users with one-click access to their favorite sites. The Links bar has undergone a complete makeover for Internet Explorer 8. It has been renamed the Favorites bar to enable users to associate this bar as a place to put and easily access all their favorite web content such as links, feeds, WebSlices and even Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.
• Automatic Crash Recovery - Automatic Crash Recovery (ACR) is a feature of Windows®Internet Explorer® 8 that can help to prevent the loss of work and productivity in the unlikely event of the browser crashing or hanging. The ACR feature takes advantage of the Loosely-Coupled Internet Explorer feature to provide new crash recovery capabilities, such as tab recovery, which will minimize interruptions to users’ browsing sessions. Learn more…
• Improved Phishing Filter - Internet Explorer 7 introduced the Phishing Filter, a feature which helps warn users when they visit a Phishing site. Phishing sites spoof a trusted legitimate site, with the goal of stealing the user’s personal or financial information. For Internet Explorer 8, we are building on the success of the Phishing Filter with a more comprehensive feature called the “Safety Filter.”

Internet Explorer 8 can be installed on Microsoft Windows Vista® Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows Vista, Windows XP® Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows Server® 2008 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2). Downloads are available from the following location:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/getitnow.mspx

6 March 2008 in Beta Testing & Developer Tools & Software | Comments (0)