Sunday, April 30, 2006 

AdCenter to Take Center Stage at MSN Summit

The AdCenter product has been being beta tested for months and is widely expected to be launched in the United States in June.

And AdCenter also is a key part of Microsoft's services push in fiscal 2007, company officials told analysts on the Microsoft Q3 FY 2006 earnings call on April 27.

 

Microsoft gives until 2nd June 2006 to Fix Sites using ActiveX

Microsoft gives until 2nd June 2006 to Fix Sites using ActiveX

2006.03.30
"For our April IE cumulative security update, we will include the IE ActiveX change in the security update, but we will create a "compatibility patch" (deployed like a hotfix) that allows customers to turn off the change for a limited period of time through the June update cycle (2nd Tuesday in June) to provide time for enterprise customers to resolve compatibility issuess. "

Looks like its time to start changing the way your websites handle plugins for IE.

 

Microsoft Windows Live Search

Microsoft Windows Live Search

2006.03.08
Microsoft has released its beta Windows Live Search at http://www.live.com which would replace MSN some times in Summer. It's quite innovative with a lot of new features consolidated. Its screen fit with your computer. In search, you don't have to go from page 1 to page 2 or 3, but streamline down - so basically you may not need to be at #1 or page 1 like traditional SE to get traffic. SEO is changing its face.