Filed under: Windows, Microsoft, Beta, Search
MSN Toolbar Beta now available for download
by Simon Kerbel Mar 3rd 2008
Microsoft has just released a new beta of its MSN Toolbar. Wait, wasn't it the Windows Live Toolbar in the last release? It's starting to look like Microsoft might have an identity crisis...The new MSN Toolbar beta is now powered by Silverlight, Microsoft's own cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering interactive applications on the Web, which has just recently reached version 1.0.
The Toolbar itself is what you've come to expect from Toolbars: a search pane with lots of extra links to content and sites run by the Toolbar's publisher. The MSN Toolbar uses Windows Live Search and includes customizable at-your-fingertips MSN content.
We wish we could tell you that downloading and installing the Toolbar was a snap. Well, it wasn't. Continuing Microsoft's maddening tradition of making its software nigh impossible to download, with the requisite WGA checks, and Live ID passports, etc...downloading the MSN Toolbar was anything but simple.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
