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Featured Article: The Live Search Olympics collection

The 2008 Olympics has been a source of pride for the athletes, for China, and also for Live Search, who posted a very nice series of background images here in the United States, at a rate of about 2 per day.  Even though our friend and ultra Windows Live enthusiast Picturepan2 lives in China (in Shanghai), he still was enamored enough of the Olympics and Live Search to collect every Live Search Olympics background , including the Birds Nest one that ran in China, and gather them in a SkyDrive folder for your viewing enjoyment: He took the time to save the jpg, and not just grab a screenshot
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by Kip Kniskern on 24 Aug 2008, 07:26 PM with 5 comment(s)

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