Tag Archives: microsoft
More Live.com Grief
So I went to delete my old Live.com account. After struggling to find the option, I finally found it, and closed the account … almost. It came up with an error message reading: One or more paid services or a Microsoft Points account is linked to your account. To close this account, make sure each service is canceled and your Microsoft Points account is closed. Get help with this. “Get help with this” was linked to a dead link. I came across alot of dead links and broken functions on Live.com, like the link to where to close the account in the FAQ. I checked “Microsoft Points”, and I did …
Live.com / Microsoft Social Networking
We all know that Microsoft wants desperately to get into the game on Social Networking (I suspect that, one day, they will buy FaceBook or LinkedIn – maybe both). Anyway, they have been doing similar stuff for a long, long time. I have been using “Messenger” since at least 2000 (“MSN Messenger” came out in 1999, and they renamed it to “Live Messenger” in 2005). So I had a look at what they had done so far, out of curiousity, to compare to FaceBook and such. They did have a pretty cool thing called “Spaces”, which I used to use. Most of it can be replicated in FaceBook, though, and …
