"Report Abuse" on Microsoft's Messenger E-Mail Service

This is great ! its the time to get serious about child pornography, i hope that this gets implemented in non-UK versions also but the only thing i am worried about is misuse. i am not sure how the misuse of this service will be monitered. Although its not very difficult to do but it may mean that the person clicking the may needs to be fully authenticated..how ? no ideas ? let see how it works !..see the full news below ..

In the UK, Microsoft has teamed up with a government-backed agency to help protect users of Windows Live Messenger against potential predators and other deviants. A new icon, "report abuse," will be implemented into the messenger for users to press to connect directly with authorities to report suspicious chatters. In an attempt to protect the 11 million users of the service from potential abusers, the software giant has struck up a partnership with the UK government-backed Child Exploitation & Online Protection Centre. Microsoft will add a "report abuse" icon to Messenger that will link any users worried about their anonymous internet buddies directly to online police services. Set up earlier this year to provide a single point of contact for the public, law enforcers and the communications industry to report the targeting of children online, CEOP offers advice and information to parents and potential victims of abuse and works with police forces around the world to protect children. "This is part of our 'safer by design' plan and strategy which is designed to make predators have a lack of confidence because of what is going on behind the scenes while they are online," said Jim Gamble, the chief executive of CEOP. "This is a landmark step by Microsoft. They could have got £20,000 in ad revenue for the space they have given up to ensure a higher level of user safety and we hope others will follow them." More refrences on http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1855921,00.html

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Lets Fight With Piracy !

Microsoft website offers a "Complimentary Windows Genuine Advantage Kit" in exchange for your pirated Windows CD and the name of the place you bought it from.

But you know not everybody takes things in good sprit I just checked a comment about this in digg the only words i had were "Again ! the same whatever-ms-does-is-bad ! comeon, think before you speak ! if MS would have offered "Complimentary Windows Genuine Advantage Kit" in exchage of your "home-made Verbatim CD with the hand-written serial number" you can easily produce a few hundred pirated CDs got get a few hundred licences !" do you think otherwise ?

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Welcome Windows Live Writer !!

Sorry guys i had to keep my mouth shut for many days...!  actually since a month (i guess ) i was blogging using dogfood builds of the cool new product from Microsoft..Windows..Live ..Writer ..!  no ..don't get confussed its not only for using with windows live, it supports most of the comman blogging formats like atom api, metaweblog api etc. and most important thing is .. its very cost effective..yeah free..!!! you heard it right !!!! (and we are not bundling it with our OS so ..;) don't cry )

I know your next question is why ? when Word 2007 already has that capibility .. why are we giving out two products with the same intension ..no we are not doing it .. both are for different people.. if you use Word 2007 very often ..then you can use word for blogging but if you don't use it please don't buy word just for blogging ..(unless you are habitual of buying a AK - 47 for killing birds :) )

so the download link for live writer is http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/9/a/f9a19f2d-cec4-4a25-9b0b-eb9655ea7561/Writer.msi  if you want to know more about it you can check the page of windows live writer team blog http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com  below is a pic..and if you are thinking about the right hand insert pane..yes you are right ! windows live writer comes with an SDK so that you can extend it to do whatever (you know i don't actually mean whatever ) you want !

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Journalist Admits Fabricating Interviews

A Norwegian journalist has admitted he fabricated interviews with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and talk show host Oprah Winfrey, media reports said Monday.

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