An Incredible Hidden Feature in WLM “Windows Live Messenger”
Days ago, while I was working, I tried to send my coworker a file through Windows Live Messenger as a shortcut in presence of broadband. The file was about 20 MB, as soon as my coworker accepted to receive the file, it arrived in just a moment! I was astonished, I was certain that broadband connection won’t permit that speed. I thought it was due to the LAN that was configured with AD and ISA servers that may accelerated the connection. I went home while being thinking about it.
Today, I tried to send a file over my home network with same method through WLM while I’m on 1 Mbps ADSL. The file size was 24 MB, I accepted from the other PC and it was arrived in less than 3 seconds!
What I realized lately, that WLM “Windows Live Messenger” in fact is not only an Internet based IM client, but also a LAN file transfer manager! It could determine that both clients are for same network “maybe IP test” and soon instead of sending file across Internet, it sends file over LAN without need to pass through very very long routes worldwide and back do destination.
I tried to search web for articles about this features, however I didn’t find any results or news from the Live Messenger team yet.
I hope that everyone enjoy this feature! Thank you Microsoft! Thank you Live Messenger!
We Turned to Bing!
Dear visitors,
I’m pleased to announce that we’re from the early few sites who started providing their sites with the new Microsoft Bing search engine!
As I mentioned before, I would not like the idea of reading white papers, videos about such new product, especially that I’m an official Microsoft Beta Tester and I feel passion to beta test the actual system myself.
Bing is really amazing, with a rapid Bing Crawler that indexes site very fast unlike any other search engine (even Google) that didn’t yet index my new migrated website.
As soon as I submitted my site to Bing, it starts to submit site pages to the new search engine! Really wow!
Bing to prove it’s one of the best websites worldwide for the year 2009 and upcoming decade, ending 2 decades of the empires of Yahoo! and Google respectively.
Now if you want to find something, Bing It! www.bing.com
TBot, Your Most Loyal Online Friend!
I' was really astonished when a friend asked me to add a Hotmail contact into my Windows Live Messenger. When I asked him, what’s it? He simply answered: a Bot!
My mind immediately went to the auto disturbing bots that IMs us in some other public messengers, but soon, I decided to add it and figure it out.
I was surprised, it’s an automated translation system released by Microsoft, Windows Live division!
TBot is a new technology Microsoft released as an add-on to the Windows Live Translator service. It’s to allow a complete interaction between automated bot system connected to the Windows Live Translator servers and billions of Windows Live Messenger users and Yahoo! Messenger users due to the interoperability between the most famous IMs to offer a real-time translations for up to 6 languages.
TBot is easy to use. Once you add it, it will welcome you and asks you to set a default language to translate to. It’s more similar like the automated phone systems by sending certain numbers for certain set of options. If you forgot these numbers of need any help anytime, just tell him: “TBot ?” and it will offer you rich options of help.
I recommend everyone with Windows Live Messenger or Yahoo! Messenger to add TBot to their IM. TBot is the most loyal friend you’ll have, always online, always available for you to reply your posts instantly.
MSN, Baidu Partenership for Ads in China
Microsoft and Baidu announced a strategic partnership on Thursday that calls for the Chinese site to sell ads on select MSN and Live properties within China. Baidu, the top search provider in the country, disclosed the partnership in a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, however.
The move is somewhat curious considering Microsoft
recently launched its adCenter offering in an effort to compete on a more even keel with Yahoo and Google. Initially offered in the United States, Britain, France and Singapore, Microsoft plans to expand it to other countries in the near future. However, in China its web properties are far less popular, possibly the reason for such a deal.