{"id":276,"date":"2007-11-08T09:22:17","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T09:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/08\/microsoft-brings-windows-live-services-out-of-beta\/"},"modified":"2007-11-08T09:26:11","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T09:26:11","slug":"microsoft-brings-windows-live-services-out-of-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/08\/microsoft-brings-windows-live-services-out-of-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft brings Windows Live services out of beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has finally released out of beta it&#8217;s suite of <a href=\"http:\/\/home.live.com\/\">Windows Live Services<\/a>, offering users half a dozen downloads and web apps.Among the offerings are IMAP-enabled Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Writer (one of my favourite tools!) for offline editing and uploading blogs, A Picture Gallery application and a parental controls application for web browsing.<\/p>\n<p>This <em>offering<\/em> by Microsoft does echo Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/pack.google.com\/intl\/en\/pack_installer.html?hl=en&amp;gl=us\">Google Pack<\/a>, which was also an online\/offline software bundle. The difference between the two is that Google&#8217;s offering includes products from other vendors whilst Microsoft&#8217;s offering does attempt to tie you more to Microsoft&#8217;s own Platform.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not complaining though I like variety &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has finally released out of beta it&#8217;s suite of Windows Live Services, offering users half a dozen downloads and web apps.Among the offerings are IMAP-enabled Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Writer (one of my favourite tools!) for offline editing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/08\/microsoft-brings-windows-live-services-out-of-beta\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,5],"tags":[417,387,209,386,208],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-stuff","category-technology","tag-cool-stuff","tag-google","tag-google-pack","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-live"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}