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If you're a user of our Live Toolbar Plug-In, you probably got a notice yeasterday telling you a new version is available. Hopefully you were able to do so, but we've heard a lot of feedback that the upgrade was confusing. Yeah...sorry about that. The new verison of our plugin requires the latest version of the Live Toolbar, so if you don't have that, you need to upgrade to it first. Here's what I recommend doing:

1) Uninstall Windows Live Favorites for Windows Live Toolbar

Go to your control panel and select "Add or Remove Programs". Look for an entry called "Windows Live Favorites for Windows Live Toolbar" and remove it.

2) Install Windows Live Toolbar 3.0

Go to http://toolbar.live.com and install the latest version there. It should be version 3.0.

3) Install Windows Live Favorites

Go to Toolbar Options and selet "Install Buttons". Scroll down until you find the Windows Live Favorites button. Click the link to download and install.

You should now have the lastest version of the Toolbar and Windows Live Favorites running. Please let us know if this doesn't work.

Thanks,
Irwin

6月15日

Live Favorites - Beta No More!

Live Favorites V1 is Released!

We, the Live Favorites Team, are happy to announce that as of today Live Favorites is officially released as a V1 product... Beta No more!

A little while ago we put into production our final V1 service and web site. Check it out:

Expanded Market Support

Live Favorites is now available in 37 markets and 11 languages around the world. We're thrilled to be able to bring the service to so many people!

Live Favorites Bookmarklet

You've asked for it! We've now made available a bookmarklet so you can easily add websites to your Live Favorites account. Click here to get the bookmarklet now!

Live Favorites Messenger Tab New Features

We've got some great new features in our Messenger Tab:

Folder Support - See all of your favorites in folders! Click on the small Folder icon to switch between Top Favorites and Folder Views.
Favorite Count - See exactly how many favorites you have stored.
Add Favorites - You can now add favorites directly from Messenger. Click the down arrow next to "Manage" to manage your favorites, add a favorite, or refresh Messenger's list of favorites

The Messenger tab makes it very easy to access your Favorites directly from your desktop; Just look for the Messenger tab with the Favorites Star on it. You can move it higher in the Tab list too - go to the Tools Menu, select options, and then the Tabs item. From there you can move it on up!

Live Favorites Web Site Enhancements

Of course, your main place to access and manage your favorites is still our website at http://favorites.live.com. We've added a lot of enhancements for this release, check 'em out:

Speed! - We've done a lot of work to greatly reduce rendering time on our site.
Browser Support - Live Favorites fully supports IE6, IE7 and Firefox.
Multi-Select - You asked for it! Select multiple favorites and delete or move them with a single click. Simply hold down the Ctrl key and click on multiple items to select them.
Favorites Status - We now tell you exactly how many folders and favorites you have
Easier Sharing - Share your favorites with a single click! In the details view click "Private" on any favorite to share it, and vice versa!
UI Enhancements - Resize columns! Sort by any column! Improved graphics! List View! Favorites Preview!

The Live Favorites team is very happy to bring this release to you. We hope you like what you see. Fear not though, we're not done! We have some great plans for the future, and always enjoy hearing from you!

5月30日

Your Favorite Places, Anytime, Anywhere

Last week the Live Local team released a huge update to their service, and the Live Favorites team is happy to be a part of it!

Live Local allows you to save and share collections of pushpins. Have some favorite lunch spots around town? Send them to your friends! Planning a trip? Mark out the spots and send it around to your co-travelers. Check out http://www.passthepoi.com for even more ideas on cool collections to make and share.

When someone sends you a collection and you want to keep it around, what do you do? Add it to your Favorites, of course! When you receive and open a collection, it will open in a pane on the left hand side of the screen. If you're signed in, you'll have an "Add to Favorites" button. Click to name, save, and tag the collection. It's automatically saved for you in your Live Favorites account within the "Favorite Windows Live Local Collections" folder. Now you can access your Favorite collections anywhere!

This once again shows another great example of how we're trying to integrate Live Favorites everywhere to stay true to our goal - Your Favorites, anytime, anywhere.

Enjoy!

5月23日

Favorites in Messenger - Moving on Up!

Have you been using Messenger? Have you been using the Live Favorites Messenger Tab? No? Why not??

The Messenger Tab is the latest and greatest way to access your Live Favorites. I don't know about you, but there are several programs I *always* have running - Email, Newsreader, and Messenger. Messenger is a part of my daily online experience, keeping me in touch with friends and family across the US and around the world. With the Live Favorites tab, it also keeps my favorite web sites at my fingertips!

Now, to go to one of my favorites, I don't even have to open a web browser and start looking for the item I want. I just flip over to the Live Favorites tab in Messenger and start typing. My favorites list is instantly filtered as I type, narrowing down the list to exactly what I want. Way easy, way cool!

How cool is this feature? So cool that we're moving up the list! The Live Favorites tab is now one of the top tabs in Messenger. We want to thank the Messenger team for that. We look forward to bringing out even cooler features within the tab!

So, now will you give it a go? What else would you like to see there?

5月2日

IE7 Beta 2 Issues Fixed

Hi folks,

Thanks for bearing with us. We've now updated the Live Favorites site to fix known issues with IE7. Give it a try, and as usual, leave us feedback of what you think.

Thanks!

Irwin

5月1日

We're Hiring!

Hey Folks! Like what we're doing here in Live Favorites? Have a great idea on how to make it even better? Dislike something in Live Favorite you want to fix? Well, come help us out! The Live Favorites team is hiring! Here's the info:

Qualified applicants should have a solid background in Windows software development, at least five years of industry experience as a software developer shipping products targeted at a large customer base, preferably on large-scale servers, Internet services, or distributed systems. Requirements include experience in writing highly scalable backend services, proven exceptional strength in the following areas: expert knowledge in asynchronous programming using multiple threads and know how to write high performing code. In addition to that problem solving, written and verbal communications, technical judgment, cross-group collaboration, software debugging, customer focus. Familiarity with technical terms like L1 cache, cache line, cache coherency protocol, branch prediction is a plus. Candidates must have a thorough knowledge of C# or C++. Thinking in Software Design Patterns highly desired.

Our developers work in an agile development, using cutting edge tools and technologies. Backend services will be written in C#.

BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent is required.

If you're interested drop us a resume to lfblogfb@microsoft.com and we'll take a look. Thanks!

4月26日

IE7 Beta 2 & Live Favorites Issue

Hi Folks,

We've gotten a few folks telling us about issue's they're seeing with the latest IE7 release and the Live Favorites website. We discovered a Javascript issue that affects IE7 only. The fix for it should be out early next week.

Thanks,