The acquisition of Sybari by Microsoft has been finalized. This deal will enable Microsoft to build added security features into their IM.
The deal, announced last February and finalized this week, will result in the availability of Sybari’s Antigen software for messaging, gateway, spam and other security on the Windows platform…
Microsoft’s vice president of the Security […]
Microsoft is putting some pressure on extending their newly released Office Communicator product. I just came back from a conference on collaboration technologies and was impressed with the force being put on the product by Microsoft. It’s clear they want it to lead their communication advantage.
In response to this, they have decided to extend Office […]
TechNewsWorld has an interesting piece looking at the bullish entry of MSN into the Chinese market.
“Small IM software companies have to join hands with each other and achieve interpretabilities among their products, since this is the only way for them to survive the fierce competition in the market,” said Guo Chang, an analyst at CCW […]
Internet Week reports that there has been a marked increase in IM threats. This has been a trend all through the year, and does not seem to be abating at present - the threat registers as 7 out of 10.
Security firm Akonix reports that May saw 51 new IM and P2P threats - that’s double […]
Messenger Plus! 3.54 has been released. Here’s their changelog:
Added “DelayedSignin” registry setting. You can now use this setting to make Messenger wait the specified period of time before automatically signing in when it starts. Some people reported that letting Messenger 7 automatically sign-in after a reboot made their whole computer be very slow, this new […]
‘The MSN network of Internet services today announced that it has acquired substantially all the assets of MessageCast Inc., a leading provider of automated alerting and messaging technology that currently supports the MSN Alerts service. This acquisition builds on the robust MSN Alerts platform, enabling tighter integration with the MessageCast technology. It also extends MSN […]
‘Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it formed a joint venture with Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd. to launch Web portal MSN China later this spring.
Microsoft already offers its MSN Messenger instant messaging service and the MSN Hotmail e-mail service in Chinese, but said the new venture will deliver more comprehensive communications and information for the 94 million […]
‘One of the major new features to MSN Messenger 7 is the “What I’m Listening To” feature that integrates with a users’ Personal Message. Thanks to some great detective work by noroom and the guys over at MSN Fanatic on some disabled items with MSN Messenger 7, I am able to tell you about some […]
MSN Blog writes a great post answering the critiques of many that MSN Messenger 7 is bloated:
‘I’ve had countless people tell me they won’t move to MSN Messenger 7 Final and beyond because they don’t like the bloat of the new features that MSN Messenger 7 brings with it. In most cases I agree fully […]
‘Microsoft Corp. has released an update to its enterprise instant messaging and presence servers for free, a move that makes good on its promise to interoperate with the three major IM networks.
The Redmond, Wash., software maker on Thursday shipped Service Pack 1 for its Office Live Communications Server 2005. One of its key features is […]