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Ask Windows Live - Sidebar
(48 customer ratings)
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Ask questions and instantly get the answer from Windows Live, Live QnA, Wikipedia and MSDN directly in your sidebar. Sample questions include: What is the population of Brazil, Fargo ND Weather, Where's Waldo, 23 pounds in kilograms, MSFT, Who was the 17th presidemnt of the US, Global Warming, Why are there no sharks in Lake Ontario, System.Threading.Thread.Sleep, (38 * 4^3) - 234, KXJB, What is depreciation, What is your favorite color, etc.
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Operating system:Windows Vista
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sunDAZEDchild
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
No Rating
Kudos (8/6/2007)
As a producer, I have a bit of experience with research on a deadline - no matter how minimal as long as it's accurate. And I LOVE you. Thank you for giving me the fastest blurt in the newsroom whenever a factoid question arises! It may not be much info, but it sure as hell gives me a place to start! Where have you been all our lives? Keep it up... and keep playing with this thing. I'll promote it. Gimme some new toys if you get time...skins maybe? And you can make something big of this when Vista is more common... I have a couple of question/suggestions (I don't know what this application is capable of, while keeping it so smart and simple)... some sources you could add or maybe allow us to add our own in? Hey, whatever - thanks again!
AwesomeCrustacean
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
Like it
Perfect - Only 1 Real Flaw (6/1/2008)
Best Search function - Works to incorporate multiple search engines. Replaces potentially many sidebar gadgets and flyout display is nice. ONE ISSUE - won't display 'links' so if you Wiki something it will be like "Your Term" may refer to: and then nothing else... Even linked other pages - the name of the link doesnt display. WORTH GETTING.
skank9595
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
Love it
Error 0: PLZ HELP! (4/3/2008)
Whenever I ask anything all I get is Error 0: and no answers! I know that some other people have had this issue and I really REALLY like the idea of this. Please help! im running windows vista home premium SP1
VvBlue98vV
1 of 2 people found this review helpful
Love it
Excellent Job! (1/24/2008)
Sometimes it can be funny
Frenchtoastman2
0 of 2 people found this review helpful
Love it
5/5 (10/30/2007)
It's excellent, it's not like it answers every question but neither does Windows Live. It is the best, i can go use this instead of going online...
wowfan333
1 of 4 people found this review helpful
Hate it
zero (10/18/2007)
sorry i think it needs A LOT more work i ask is windows good it says i need a good computer
M3do64
0 of 0 people found this review helpful
It's okay
Error 12017 (11/6/2009)
I've keep getting this error 12017.Anybody knows why? I'm from Croatia...
ghjntjhn
0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Like it
Error (9/20/2009)
I really like this gadget however currently (2009) this version is broken (1.8) The problem is that it refers to the Live Search which Bing replaced. Also it seems that the Question and Answer service that it used to reference is no longer up.
ThinkingSolutions
0 of 0 people found this review helpful
It's okay
Good idea, decent implementation, poor sources (8/11/2008)
The gadget is well-done and quite cool. However, the sources are poor - I haven't gotten a response from Windows Live InLine Answers yet, and poor response from Wikipedia (even when searching for things I know are in there). Have the APIs changed? That would make some sense.
elonlon
0 of 0 people found this review helpful
It's okay
i have problem whis this "error: 0" (6/19/2008)
Whenever I ask anything all I get is Error 0: and no answers! I know that some other people have had this issue and I really REALLY like the idea of this. Please help! im running windows vista home premium SP1