RSSMicrosoft Readies Windows Live 'Vegas'
By the Betanews Staff | Published February 16, 2006, 1:11 PM
Microsoft is inviting testers to take part in a new Windows Live beta program called Family Safety Settings. Appropriately code-named "Vegas," Family Safety Settings extends the parental controls in Windows through a downloadable program. Parents can define specifically what content they wish to block.
"It's an a easy-to-use, flexible way to help keep the kind of content you deem inappropriate from reaching your children--like alcohol, pornography, gambling, tobacco, etc. Windows Live Family Safety Settings Beta also lets you create individual accounts for each child, and see activity reports on the Web sites your kids have visited," Microsoft said in an e-mail. The service can be turned off when parents wish to browse the Web.
Vegas? Hmm I can already hear rumblings at Sony.
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|It's just the code-name; nothing more.
Sony suing over it would be like Longhorn Steakhouse suing over MS using their name for Vista's code-name.
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|Funny how MS is the copy cat! I just love the google office suite it is the greatest that I have seen!!!!! Remember just because you might announce it first doesnot mean you had the idea first. the proof is in the pudding
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|MMMmmm...pudding.
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|msn has had web filtering software for 3+ years. not sure how they could be copying google.
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|"Appropriately named Vegas". Huh? Everyone knows "whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas", so how is that in any way appropriately named? Family Safety and Vegas are polar opposites.
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|have you heard of the Sony software named "Vegas" ... ( vegas video )
i think that name is quite streamlined for anything named after ... but i guess is up to each person's mentality to translate, associate, and define it ...
( most perverts think of vegas as a dirty name )
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|It has nothing to do with my perversion level (or lack thereof); English speaking people commonly refer to Vegas as "Sin City". Why don't you post your address so I can mail you a dictionary. Maybe I should mail the Windows Live Team a dictionary too.
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|a dictionary ?? LOL ..... your a funny guy ....
omg, that was so original ...
that was great ....
did you come up with that all by yourself ...
wow ...
that was awesome ....
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|Thanks. And no, it's a pretty old joke, but you obviously really do need one since you don't know the difference between "your" and you're".
...still waiting for your explanation on how Vegas segues to "family safety".
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|there's actually nothing stopping you from emailing Microsoft and getting an answer directly from them.... being that you're so good with names also email the human resources department and ask them for a job, since apparently you believe better could be done :)
( and if your next response is a personal attack, dont even bother ....
1.- your existance is irrelevant to me, and so is what you write
2.- read the rules before posting :)
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|"most perverts think of vegas as a dirty name"
Really? What a strange world you must inhabit.
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|heh....interesting...coming from a furby. ;P
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|sez you!
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|I luv furbys!
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|And after there do that maybe there can fix the update probelm in windows defender
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|They have enough staff to handle both thins.
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