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When Windows Live Calendar came out of beta in January, we introduced a birthday monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly calendar to automatically keep lane of your contacts’ birthdays. We’ve only softened a birthday monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly calendar to have it even some-more flexible.

Whenever we supplement birthday report in your hit list, it appears in your calendar. But right away we can additionally supplement birthdays right from inside a birthday monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly calendar (and they’ll automatically sync with your hit list).

When we supplement a brand new birthday, we can call courtesy to it with a special appeal as well as we can set a second sign (so we really don’t dont think about to buy which gift).

If we don’t similar to a birthday calendar, we can spin it off or undo a total thing. Deleting a birthday monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly calendar doesn’t shift what’s in your hit list, so we can regularly supplement a birthday monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly calendar behind later.

There have been a couple of alternative additions to a settings page: we can additionally shift a default appeal which goes with birthdays. And we can modernise a monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly calendar to have certain it has all a ultimate birthdays which have been in your hit list.

We goal these improvements assistance we keep lane of birthdays.

Happy scheduling,

The Windows Live Calendar Team

Sometimes we’re not continuous to a internet or suddenly a use we’re perplexing to bond to isn’t accessible – we find ourselves in need of accessing e-mail offline. Windows Live provides we options when things tumble down since we assimilate which people rely upon their e-mail for information. With Windows Live Mail or Outlook Connector for Outlook, we can entrance your Hotmail as well as alternative e-mail accounts offline as well as have a richer knowledge than probable upon a web. So when a astonishing happens, you’ll still have entrance to your e-mail yet a joy of a mail programs upon your PC.

Best,
The Windows Live Team

Today, we have been becoming different a approach Windows Live Hotmail messages come in to Microsoft Office Outlook, Outlook Express, as well as Entourage. While we might have to tweak a little settings, we will notice one more speed as well as efficiency. Please check out our prior post to sense what we need to do in sequence to keep reception Hotmail in Outlook, Outlook Express, or Entourage.

Keep in mind, this does not start entrance by a web as well as business can go upon to perspective Hotmail messages upon a web at http://mail.live.com or http://www.hotmail.com.

Questions or difficulty updating your mail program? View a FAQ page or revisit a help community.

Technical sum for those who have been curious. Microsoft Office Outlook, Outlook Express, as well as Entourage make make make use of of of a bequest DAV custom to entrance Hotmail messages. Today, we have been timid a DAV protocol. As Hotmail storage has evolved, DAV has turn an emasculate resolution for syncing e-mail (it downloads a total mailbox instead of usually changes). We have dual alternatives now: DeltaSync as well as POP3. DeltaSync synchronizes your e-mail, usually similar to DAV, though is most faster given it usually downloads a ultimate changes to your mailbox. Both a Windows Live Mail as well as Outlook Connector e-mail programs make make make use of of of this fit protocol. POP3 is a tried-and-true custom as well as functions with scarcely all e-mail programs. If selecting to make make make use of of of POP3, there have been a integrate of things we need to keep in thoughts about a protocol. Click here to find out more.

Thank we for regulating Windows Live Hotmail.

Sincerely,
Your Windows Live Hotmail Team

Want to find only a right eventuality in your area this weekend? Worried about anticipating something fun to do with a kids when you’re upon eighth month in a brand new town? Try a extended MSN City Guides, Bing eventuality search or any of a Zvents co-branded services around a Web to find cold happenings as well as rught divided supplement them to personal or common calendars in Windows Live.

Give it a try!

1. Visit MSN City Guides during http://thingstodo.msn.com
2. Enter something similar to “concerts” as well as a name of your internal locale or city. In a e.g. below, we’re acid for concerts in Mountain View, CA

3. Click upon a single of a events in a outcome list to examination details. In a e.g. below, we’ve clicked upon “Alumni Concert.” You can right divided examination a sum of a event.

4. Now, to have certain which we don’t dont think about about a event, we can supplement it to your personal or common calendars in Windows Live. Just click anywhere we see a monthly monthly calendar idol with Save,.

5. After we click a idol with Save,, you’ll see a series of options for calendars which we can save to, similar to Microsoft Office Outlook as well as Windows Live Calendar. For a example, we’ll click Windows Live Calendar. If you’re already logged in to Windows Live, you’ll see a eventuality sum right away. If you’re not logged in, you’ll be stirred to do which first.  

6. Here have been a eventuality sum pre-populated with a eventuality calm from a MSN City Guides page. Notice which we chose to supplement a “music” appeal as well as additionally invited a chairman to a eventuality by promulgation a Windows Live Calendar eventuality invitation. we could additionally name to save this eventuality onto a common monthly monthly calendar with a spouse, poignant alternative or friend. we can additionally set a sign for a event. And, reminders can arrive by a Windows Live Alerts make use of around Windows Live Messenger, SMS upon my mobile phone, or around e-mail. 

Here’s a little some-more cold stuff. Notice which if we do a Bing poke for say, “Events nearby Santa Cruz, CA,” we will right divided see a list of arriving events nearby which location. Click an eventuality as well as we will see a eventuality sum in MSN City Guides. And, if we name to supplement a eventuality to your calendar, you’ll be means to name Windows Live Calendar from a tip of a list.

Finally, a good thing about a partnership with Zvents is which they energy eventuality poke as well as listings during hundreds of sites around a Web. So, in further to acid for events by MSN City Guides, we can additionally revisit many alternative sites with eventuality listings. Clicking events in those sites will move up a informed Save icon, too. Use it to supplement your events to Windows Live Calendar. And, when you’re ready to transport around a world, we can make use of Zvents to find events in hundreds of inhabitant as well as general cities.  

We goal to see we during concerts, plays, as well as festivals around a world!

Thanks for regulating a service,

The Windows Live Calendar team

Some of we might have beheld which lately, we can no longer supplement photos without delay in to a physique of a Windows Live Hotmail summary a approach we used to do. The Windows Live group is all a time reviewing Hotmail to safeguard peculiarity use to a customers. During a new review, we identified an incompatibility with Internet Explorer which caused a security flaw with print uploads, as well as we done a preference to at a moment mislay a feature. The Hotmail group takes confidence really severely as well as we design to move behind a print upload underline by a finish of September. In a meantime, we can still supplement cinema as attachments to your Hotmail messages, by clicking Attach, as well as afterwards File, and afterwards selecting a design we wish to include.

We swallow ones pride for any nuisance which this might means we until this repair is complete.

The Windows Live group

A new Live Wire blog post talked about how to supplement the ball report to your Windows Live Calendar. It enclosed the step requiring we to duplicate as well as pulp the couple in to your calendar.  If you’re the Firefox 3.x user, there’s the by-pass we can have use of to have this step easier.

1) Visit calendar.live.com in Firefox 3.x as well as pointer in.

2) Copy the following couple in to the your residence club as well as press Enter:

javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler(’webcal’, ‘http://calendar.live.com/calendar.aspx?rru=addsubscription&src=ff&url=%s’,'Subscribe in Windows Live Calendar’);

3) Click Add Application

4) Now when we click upon the webcal:// couple (links to Calendar files), you’ll have the preference to open the couple in Windows Live Calendar:

5) Check the box “Remember my preference for webcal links”—that way, each time we click upon the webcal link, it’ll automatically open in Windows Live Calendar. After we click OK, you’ll go without delay to the monthly monthly monthly monthly calendar subscription page.

6) Now only name the calendar, name the color, as well as click “Subscribe to calendar”. That’s all there is to it.

To shift your webcal settings, go to Tools, name Options, as well as afterwards Applications.

We have been happy to have known which Hotmail business in a US, Canada, as well as Brazil can right away supplement alternative e-mail accounts to Hotmail!* No need to pointer in to mixed services to check all your messages upon a web. Instead, we can see any POP-enabled e-mail comment (including Yahoo! Mail (Plus), AOL Mail, as well as Gmail) right from your Hotmail account. You can put all of your messages together in your inbox or any e-mail comment in a own folder, your choice.

You can set this up in Hotmail in 3 elementary steps:

(1) Click Add an e-mail account upon a left-hand side of a Hotmail inbox.

(2) Type a e-mail residence as well as cue for your alternative account, as well as click Next.

(3) Choose where we wish a messages to go, as well as click Save.

Note: In sequence for this to work, have certain POP has been incited upon in a POP-enabled e-mail use we wish to supplement (this could engage signing in to a use as well as becoming different your settings there).

We goal this underline will assistance we facilitate your digital life!

Windows Live Hotmail Team

* This underline was launched progressing this year in a UK, France, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Japan, and Germany, as well as was greeted with a little really certain feedback. Today, business in a US, Canada, and Brazil will see a underline for a initial time. More countries will come after this year.

With brand brand brand brand new web-based present messaging (IM) right away accessible from Windows Live Hotmail worldwide, we have been scheming to retire MSN Web Messenger. The aged MSN Web Messenger knowledge will finish upon Jun 30, 2009.

With Hotmail’s brand brand brand brand new web-based IM, we can discuss from your Hotmail inbox or hit list, instead of starting to MSN Web Messenger (http://webmessenger.msn.com/). Go without delay to a Windows Live People page (also well known as “your hit list”) during http://people.live.com as well as pointer in to Messenger (orange arrow in a design below) to go upon present messaging upon a web with your Messenger friends.

Instant messaging from Hotmail creates it simpler to promulgate as well as share in brand brand brand brand new ways in more aged to MSN Web Messenger. For example, a formation with a apartment of alternative Windows Live services allows we to see when your Messenger friends have been online whilst celebration of a mass an e-mail as well as rught away begin a discuss to explain something in your friend’s e-mail message.

Give it a try! We goal which you’ll suffer Hotmail’s web-based IM, a brand brand brand brand new chronicle of Messenger upon a web.

Your Windows Live Hotmail Team

Do we ever find yourself scrambling to get a residence for your child’s sporting event? Or wanting to find a friend’s series so we can check when you’re assembly for lunch? You can right away have make have make make use of of of of of content messaging upon your mobile phone to see your arriving events upon Windows Live Calendar. You can additionally poke your Windows Live hit list or supplement brand brand brand brand brand brand new contacts—all from your mobile phone. No mobile browser or interpretation devise needed—if we can send as well as embrace content messages upon your mobile phone afterwards we should check out SMS for Windows Live.

To get started, only register your mobile series with Windows Live. (Don’t worry; this partial is easy—there have been minute instructions during this finish of this blog post). You’ll afterwards send a content summary (SMS) with a “command” to a shortcode:

• If you’re in a US as well as your mobile user is AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, or Nextel, your shortcode is MyLive or 695483.
• If you’re in a UK as well as your mobile user is Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile, O2, or Virgin, your shortcode is 88804.

Standard SMS messaging costs request in both a US as well as UK. So your mobile user will assign your normal rate for any content summary we send as well as receive. There’s no a single some-more assign from Microsoft.

How to have make have make make use of of of of of a brand brand brand brand brand brand new SMS services

After you’ve purebred your phone number, as well as proposed a service, you’re ready to begin promulgation commands. Below have been all of a things we can do with SMS for Windows Live, along with a commands you’ll need to know.

Check your calendar
To see your Windows Live Calendar events for currently or tomorrow: Send a content summary with a authority today or tomorrow. Windows Live sends we a content summary which lists a date, time, as well as theme of any event. To get some-more sum about an event, reply with a eventuality number.

Search your contacts
If we aren’t syncing your Windows Live contacts (or if we don’t have a Windows Mobile phone as well as can’t sync), we can have make have make make use of of of of of SMS commands to poke your contacts as well as see hit details. To poke your Windows Live contacts: Send a content summary with a authority srch followed by a name of a chairman you’re seeking for.

Check out all a cold things we can do with text messaging for Windows Live.

To register your mobile phone as well as begin regulating SMS for Windows Live

To have make have make make use of of of of of SMS for Windows Live, we need to register your phone as well as begin a service. Don’t worry, it’s simple. Here’s how we do it:

1. On a mechanism go to a Window Live Mobile website as well as pointer in with your Windows Live ID.
2. In a content box underneath Set up SMS, come in your mobile phone series as well as click Next.
3. Check your phone info, if all looks good, click Next. If any of a info isn’t correct, click change it as well as have your corrections.
4. We’ll send a content summary with a four-digit PIN formula to your mobile phone. Enter a PIN formula as well as click Next.
5. Your mobile phone series is purebred with your Windows Live account. Now we need to begin a service. To begin regulating a brand brand brand brand brand brand new SMS for Windows Live services, underneath Personal Message, Calendar as well as Contacts, click Start. You’re all set to go!
   If we haven’t attempted a alternative Windows Live SMS services (they’re not new, though may be they’re brand brand brand brand brand brand new to you) right away is a good time to do so. Under Hotmail, Messenger as well as alternative alerts, click Start as well as check out how we can have make have make make use of of of of of content messaging with Hotmail, Messenger as well as alerts.
6. After we begin a have make make use of of of you’ll get an one more content summary with a little a single some-more info which a lawyers wish us to discuss it we about.

Tip: Save a content summary sender as a hit in your mobile phone, so you’ll have it accessible when we need it.

Enjoy a brand brand brand brand brand brand new SMS for Windows Live services!

It’s roughly relocating time! We’ve been bustling removing Windows Live Calendar ready so that we can pierce all MSN Calendar business over to the brand brand new as well as softened have use of upon Windows Live.

Over the entrance months, we’ll be relocating all interpretation from existent MSN Calendar business over to Windows Live Calendar. The pierce will be gradual, that is, not everybody will see their calendars shift upon the same day.

If you’re usually perplexing Windows Live Calendar for the initial time, we might notice that whilst MSN Calendar already gave we easy scheduling of appointments, reminders, as well as monthly monthly monthly calendar sharing, Windows Live Calendar gives we even more:

• Multiple calendars that can be away colored as well as common
• An easy approach to concede to open (iCal) online calendars
• Drag-and-drop rescheduling of events
• Holiday calendars formed upon your place
• A birthday monthly monthly monthly calendar that pulls dates from your Windows Live hit list
• A to-do list to assistance keep we orderly (we’ll pierce all of your MSN Calendar’s tasks as well as records in to your brand brand new Windows Live to-do list)

Here’s what we need to know for the move:

• If we usually entrance your MSN Calendar by the web, we’ll pierce all your things for you. You won’t have to do anything.
• If we have use of Microsoft Office Outlook to perspective your calendar, have certain you’re regulating the newest chronicle of Outlook Connector. This will concede Outlook to bond without delay to your Windows Live Calendar. To find out that chronicle of Outlook Connector you’re using, open Outlook, click Outlook Connector as well as afterwards name About Outlook Connector. If the chronicle series is 12.0.6414.1000 or greater, you’re great to go. If not, you’ll need to download as well as implement the ultimate version.
• If you’ve published publically or common any of your MSN Calendars, you’ll need to tell or share them again in Windows Live Calendar.

That’s it—we’ll do the rest.

Note: Windows Live Calendar doesn’t now support displaying attachments or promulgation reminders to the delegate e-mail address.

See we upon Windows Live Calendar!