Free & Legal P2P service Qtrax launches - almost

 
As of Midnight 28th January EST or 5 in the morning here in the UK on the 29th January, the Qtrax beta became available for download from http://www.qtrax.com/ . This new service promised free downloads via a legal peer to peer network funded by advertising. Qtrack announced that they had signed deals with all [...]

Windows Live Messenger 9.0 goes in to early beta

A selection of beta testers in the Microsoft Community have been invited to participate in the beta of Live Messenger 9.0. Not sure at present if this is open to everyone to apply to or if an invitation is required even to apply.
My application was filed today although this is not to say that i [...]

On the verge of something exciting

It seems that at midnight tonight (GMT) something big is about to happen in the world of the connected home. Or three things as it seems.

The first full release of the Windows Live Suite is due to go live as reported yesterday
@live.com domains are due to become available to register for use with Hotmail and Live [...]

Count down to being better connected

Microsoft have got a great little site running at https://www.countdowntobetter.com/ which shows a countdown to the full release of the Windows Live Suite of products including Writer, Mail, Photo Gallery, Family Safety and the online Sky Drive service.
This site manages to explain all of the things we are looking for.
I like it.
 
Matt S

Changes ahead

Over the weekend I am going to try to move the blog to WordPress.org. The WordPress.com hosted blog has been great and has some nice widgets to play with, but I have become quickly frustrated with code being stripped front the site when I have tried so do something like adding a Windows Live SkyDrive [...]