NOTE: Despite these news items appearing at various websites, I cannot verify that the items mentioned are available for download. Please comment if you can find them. Until then, consider this a “preview”. - they’re finally live
Determined to bring every IE7 feature to IE6, albeit in a way that can sometimes make you wish you were using IE7 instead, MSN has released the phishing filter add-in for IE6 as an add-in for the MSN Search Toolbar. Download it here.
In addition, on that same page, you’ll find a Games add-in, which gives quick access to MSN Games, with link to the day’s most popular games, your favorites, even answer a trivia question right in the toolbar.
Finally, Bink notes that a roaming favorites add-in was released to beta testers, that will allow users to get their favorites on any computer, so long as it has the MSN Search Toolbar installed.
(via Microsoft Watch)
Also on the add-ins front, I noticed this cool third party add-in from Viapoint that brings virtual smart folders to Windows Desktop Search, a great feature.
UPDATE: Earthlink says “We invented the toolbar phishing filter first”. Hoo, hoo; tell em, Fred!
August 31st, 2005
Posted by
Nathan Weinberg |
Desktop Search, Internet Explorer, Search, MSN, Applications, General |
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“Microsoft Corp. today announced it has acquired Teleo Inc., a provider of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) software and services that enable the placement of phone calls from PCs to traditional phones and that deliver this technology in unique ways through a variety of software and Web applications. Microsoft expects to combine the technology and expertise of Teleo with the existing VoIP investments of MSN to further develop products and services that connect consumers to the people and information that most matter to them. Financial details were not disclosed.”
Read more at [MicrosoftBlog]
So news does travel with a delay sometimes 
Scuze me, sirs and misses. My previous post already is outdated.
Still, VoIP is coming. Now it’s just more certain.
August 31st, 2005
Posted by
Coolz0r |
General |
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“Microsoft plans to announce Tuesday that it has purchased a small Internet calling start-up called Teleo, as part of a move to expand the capabilities of MSN Messenger.
The move comes as all the major portal and IM companies are moving more heavily into Internet calling. […]
Microsoft has its eyes set on something more like Net phone company Skype’s service, however. A key part of Teleo’s technology is focused on making calls from a computer to an ordinary telephone, a feature that company executives said would start finding its way into MSN Messenger before the end of 2005.”
So says [C|Net’s News.com]
August 31st, 2005
Posted by
Coolz0r |
General |
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