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• Microsoft Global Exchange: Ballmer, Ozzie rock

  Microsoft just wrapped up its annual Global Exchange, known by one and all as MGX.  This year it was in Atlanta, where 13,000 Microsoft employees, sales and marketing types, and evangelists gathered to get pumped up and ready to sell, sell, sell... Posted Jul 20 2008, 07:31 PM by Kip Kniskern with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: MGX, Featured, PDC

• Microsoft opens up Live Mesh for basic mobile access

  After a great tip from one of our readers in our first Mesh tutorial , it appears as though the Live Mesh mobile portal has now also been opened up to the public. Available at http://m.mesh.com , the website provides access to the basic functionality... Posted Jul 17 2008, 09:22 AM by Chris with | with 24 comment(s) Filed under: Mobile, Featured, Mesh, Apple

• Live Mesh tutorial: Synchronising browser favourites across devices

  With yesterday’s Live Mesh update that allows users to enable peer-to-peer synchronisation and miss out the cloud sync, we thought we’d take a look at one practical example of this – browser favourites. The scenario is familiar, you’re not on your main... Posted Jul 12 2008, 03:55 PM by Chris with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: Favorites, Featured, Mesh, Live Mesh

• Check out LiveSide on your new iPhone!

  OK if you to have to go out and buy a new iPhone, that doesn’t mean you can’t keep up with the latest Windows Live news and information, and in style. A few months ago we wanted to make it easier to get LiveSide on your phone, and we signed up with MoFuse... Posted Jul 11 2008, 08:01 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with no comments Filed under: LiveSide, Mobile, Windows Live Mobile, Featured, Live Search Mobile

• Microsoft demos Photos + Virtual Earth imagery mashup at Pro Photo Summit

  Yet another Microsoft conference, yet more demos of unreleased technology. Today and tomorrows events is the Pro Photo Summit , which Kip, Brandon Le Blanc , Scoble and others are attending. Scoble was streaming some of the footage from his mobile phone... Posted Jul 09 2008, 11:54 PM by Chris with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Virtual Earth, Featured

• MSN customised page gets beta update

  We haven’t mentioned MSN for a while, mainly due to all the Microsoft-Yahoo talk that’s been going on. However a few days ago the My MSN customised homepage launched a new beta version, available at http://next.my.msn.com . So what’s new? Well the most... Posted Jul 03 2008, 11:06 PM by Chris with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: MSN, Featured, Beta

• OneCare v 2.5 Final released to production: Available now

  OneCare version 2.5, which went into public beta in early April , has just been released into production, and is available now by download at www.onecare.live.com .  While the newest build (2.5.2900.3) won’t show much if anything in the way of new... Posted Jul 02 2008, 09:16 PM by Kip Kniskern with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: OneCare, Featured, Equipt

• Microsoft acquires Powerset – Mainstream search goes to the next level

  After much ho-humming around whether Microsoft would or would-not acquire Powerset , the deal is now done and announced over on the Live Search blog . Though the price has not been announced, ReadWriteWeb were running with a rumour a few days back saying... Posted Jul 01 2008, 11:28 PM by Chris with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Corporate Strategy, Live Search, Featured, Powerset

• PhotoZoom and SLS get Silverlight 2 update

  Emil Protalinski just caught the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 update to Silverlight Streaming, which also effects the PhotoZoom service. For those of you who haven’t tried PhotoZoom yet, the service allows you to implement the Silverlight DeepZoom technology... Posted Jun 25 2008, 11:36 PM by Chris with | with no comments Filed under: Clipboard, Silverlight Streaming, PhotoZoom, Silverlight, Featured

• Microsoft stops Windows Live VOIP services from July

  Last year Microsoft announced that the existing VOIP partnership with Verizon would be terminating in 2008 . Currently this service allows Windows Live Messenger users to call friends and family using regular landlines and mobile phones, but this functionality... Posted Jun 15 2008, 07:30 PM by Chris with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Corporate Strategy, VOIP, Live Call, Featured, Deadpool

• Live Search adds nice twist to live.com: background picture(s)

  Just opened up my www.live.com home page to receive a nice surprise: … the less than awe-inspiring blue-gray of the home page has been replaced by a background picture. This would seem to open up a number of opportunities for special occasions, personalization... Posted Jun 12 2008, 05:36 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: Live Search, Featured

• Windows Live Wave 3: New Header UI

  As the 2nd part in our Windows Live Wave 3 series , we’re taking a look at the new header UI that Microsoft is working on. It was almost exactly a year ago that we started talking about the Wave 2 UI , which saw the removal of the Flair. This next change... Posted Jun 05 2008, 10:06 PM by Chris with | with 24 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Graphics, Featured, Wave 3

• Windows Live Expo joins the Windows Live deadpool

  Windows Live Expo, the Craigslist wannabe classified ads product,  is heading for what TechCrunch likes to call the “deadpool”. This follows closely on the heels of announcements shutting down Live Search Books and Academic .  A notice on the... Posted Jun 04 2008, 08:56 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Expo, Featured, Deadpool

• Windows Live Writer CTP Released

  On the Windows Live Writer Blog today, they announced the availability of the Windows Live Writer CTP. With this new build comes a lot of new features, which I will discuss in this blog post. So why is this a CTP and not just a normal beta? Well the main reason is that it features a new set of plugin APIs (version 1.1) and the whole Technical Preview is more intended for developers rather than consumers. Nonetheless, there are still some nice new additions for consumers. In this blog post, I will go through the main changes that have happened in this release, and in my next blog post, I will go through some of the new APIs that are now available. More details after the jump. Download Posted Jun 02 2008, 09:27 PM by ScottIsAFool with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: Featured, Writer

• Windows Live Wave 3: Groups - More than just a stand-alone service

  When people have talked so far about Windows Live Groups , the premise has been that it will just be an upgrade to the existing MSN Groups, and something to compete with Facebook. User creates a group, group can then share files, create a blog, interact... Posted Jun 01 2008, 11:24 PM by Chris with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Featured, Groups, Windows Live Groups, Wave 3