Microsoft adds WiFi tools suite to Windows Live
I was over reading Dare Obasanjo’s blog and saw he linked over to the new Windows Live WiFi team. That team is working on tools that sound very useful. I’m signing up for the beta.
In other Windows Live news Don Dodge links to the new image and video search. That’ll be interesting to try out.
Sounds like Windows Live is quickly coming out with lots of stuff to compete with Google. More on Google next.
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August 26th, 2006 at 10:45 am
Who cares? They are followers - does it make any sense to watch them?
August 26th, 2006 at 11:05 am
Jack: yes it does. Why? Cause they have hundreds of millions of users and a huge share of the OS market. And a LOT of cash to hire workers, and do intersting things.
Does Google have a WiFi pack of tools?
August 26th, 2006 at 11:26 am
So does this https://wifi.google.com/support not count Robert ???.
August 26th, 2006 at 11:40 am
Garth: that’s a wifi network in one town, not a toolset. Thanks for playing!
August 26th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
A lot of cash to hire people? It looks to me that anybody can work for Microsoft these days. 10.000 hired people in last year? How many of them are just average coding monkeys and how many are real gurus (Sysinternals guys, for example). A quantity is a different word than quality - look, I remember guys like Box, Kruglinski (RIP) or Blaszczak , etc. Those names were a sign of ultimate knowledge to me. But if you hire 10.000 people in a year what you get? It’s ridiculous.
August 26th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
Jack: we’ll know that based on their output, won’t we?
Remember, though, that there are a LOT of smart people who never work on a public persona. Even at Google. Do you know the names of the 8,000 people who work there? I can name maybe 20.
Truth is that for every superstar they need a team behind them that does much of the grunt work. And Microsoft has more than its fair share of superstars.
August 26th, 2006 at 1:04 pm
Output? You mean the most unstable beta version of Windows OS ever?
August 27th, 2006 at 7:47 am
On a first look, it looks almost like any other WiFi directory service such as JiWire or WiFi411, but features such as the built-in VPN are very nice (where will the endpoint be though, and will it be free to connect to it?). Additionally, it would rock if it had an API to toy with - I have signed up for the test, will report back on the blog.
It is amazing the number of people that connect to commercial hotspots, and actually believe their session is encrypted, just because during the signup/login stage, the payment/authentication website is encrypted.
August 28th, 2006 at 9:53 pm
[...] Windows Live Search - Testing, Testing… We have been hard at work on Windows Live Search to create some new features that we hope our customers will love. As anyone who works on a service knows – the only real way to know if you’re successful is to run a test, and see what people think. Well, that’s just what we’re in the process of doing. Since introducing a beta in March on Windows Live we have been experimenting with all sorts of things and now have begun testing things at a larger scale from MSN. I wanted to take a moment to introduce you to some things the blogosphere has started noticing from our testing. Please check out the features, and keep an eye on both our MSN service, and our Windows Live service. It’s a fair bet that you’ll see more changes coming soon ;-) If you like them, hate them, or have any feedback for us – please send them our way – we’re all ears. Image Search As Robert Scoble, Don Dodge and Brady Forrest noticed – we have updated our image search beta. This update has improved relevance, an expanded index of images, faster AJAX code for the user experience, and a scratchpad for working on a collection of images. Also – check out the new “related names” feature by searching on anybody you consider famous – like Barry Bonds, George Bush, Bill Clinton or Oprah Winfrey. Careful, some users have found it addictive… Video Search As TechCrunch, LiveSide and Elizabeth Montalbano noticed, we have taken our first foray into searching video. It’s an early-stage service with some licensed content from Truveo - but give it a try on anything in the news like Kentucky, gas prices or Atlantis launch. We see more and more content coming online in video form – so we’re excited to give something to our customers to start searching it! Macros We have done a major rev to our macros feature we first showed in March. I think of a macro as building your own search engine in 3 minutes. When you create and save a macro, we create a permalink for your search engine so you can share it easily and add it to your favorites. You also get an integrated experience with our dynamic search bar that allows you to use your macro with one click. We’ve also introduced an easy wizard-like experience to make creating a macro a snap. You can check out our ever-growing gallery of user-created macros… New User Experience Since most searches happen right on the Web tab – we’ve invested a lot in user research and iterative testing to hone this experience to be fast, useful, and not bad to look at. You can see our new look that includes an improved set of fonts, colors and sizes. It also introduces a tool we call the “search bar”. The search bar provides a smart and consistent way to scope your search to different types of content including new beta services – so peek under the “more…” once and a while, you just might find a new offering to check out. The search bar starts out with a core set of the most common searches, but as you pick additional items from the “more…” menu or use Macros – you’ll see that they get promoted so you can return to them easily. Combining the search bar with macros can be very powerful. The team and I will keep this blog up to date with major developments as they happen. Ken Moss General Manager Web Search Published Monday, August 28, 2006 9:49 PM by msnsearch [...]
August 31st, 2006 at 6:58 pm
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