Just noticed this post on the Windows Live Messenger Blog:

We here at Windows Live love to create software that makes keeping in touch with your personal community fun and exciting. If you love to chat on Windows Live Messenger, use Windows Live Writer to post to your Windows Live Spaces page and post photos from Windows Live Photo Gallery then we have just the community for you.

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Just noticed this post on the Windows Live Messenger Blog:

We here at Windows Live love to create software that makes keeping in touch with your personal community fun and exciting. If you love to chat on Windows Live Messenger, use Windows Live Writer to post to your Windows Live Spaces page and post photos from Windows Live Photo Gallery then we have just the community for you.

We are looking for people to share their stories, tips or tricks, or product reviews of Windows Live with others. We’ll show the world what amazing things you can do with Windows Live.

You can start by taking this quick survey so we know where to get you plugged in.

Thanks for being part of our Windows Live community!

And there’s also this one on the Windows Live Hotmail Blog:

We’re looking for people who love using Windows Live products. More importantly, we’re looking for those of you who would like to share your experiences on Windows Live with others.

This is your chance to help build a community from the ground up. We’d like to showcase for the world the best of what you do on Windows Live. If you have stories, tips or tricks, or product reviews you would like to share with our entire Windows Live audience, we’d like to hear from you.

If you’re interested, take this short survey so we can find the best way to get you involved.

Thanks for participating!

Marty Collins
Community Manager for Windows Live

 

 

So yeah if you’re interested in joining a new offical Windows Live user community, then you know what to do, take the survey!

Not much hidden info can be getherd from the survey, except it’s title is “MSFT Live Pre-Launch ID Survey”, shall be looking forward to what comes out of this!

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]]> http://www.webpronews.com/become-a-part-of-windows-lives-new-user-community-2008-05/feed 0 http://www.webpronews.com/12-billion-reasons-for-microsoft-to-acquire-fast-search-transfer-2008-01 http://www.webpronews.com/12-billion-reasons-for-microsoft-to-acquire-fast-search-transfer-2008-01#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:01:46 +0000 Andy Beal http://www.webpronews.com/?p=43155 It’s been almost a year since I asked whether Fast Search & Transfer was the “comeback kid.”
]]> It’s been almost a year since I asked whether Fast Search & Transfer was the “comeback kid.”

Well, with Microsoft offering to buy the Norweigian company for $1.2 billion–a 40% premium on its stock price–it appears the answer to the question is a resounding “Yes!”

Microsoft is naming Fast’s expertise and technology for enterprise search as the main reason for the acquisition.

“Enterprise search is becoming an indispensable tool to businesses of all sizes, helping people find, use and share critical business information quickly,” said Jeff Raikes, president of the Microsoft Business Division. “Until now organizations have been forced to choose between powerful, high-end search technologies or more mainstream, infrastructure solutions. The combination of Microsoft and FAST gives customers a new choice: a single vendor with solutions that span the full range of customer needs.”

MSFT will also get their hands on Fast’s AdMomentum technology, which allows web sites to run their one paid search ad platform.

Fast Search & Transfer’s reasons for giving board approval for the deal? Well, let’s just say they have 1.2 billion of them.

Assuming there are no hurdles with approving the deal, expect it to complete sometime in Q2.

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