There's a new gadget in town according to the Live Search Team blog, one that allows you to search using Live Search . The gadget sits nicely in your sidebar and once you've put your search into it, just hit enter, and you get the now familiar flyout effect with your search results in it. Sitting nicely...
While we're waiting to get a peek at Soapbox (well more than the dancing butterfly, anyway), here's some Windows Live news: Danny Thorpe writes that the Windows Live Contacts Gadget is due for an update soon, one that's going to break existing apps that use the contacts control. This one...
With Spaces being released yesterday ( not without a few glitches ), we continue to take a look at the new features with Part 2 of the audio tour, this time with Jay Fluegel on Gadgets. Definitely a program in it's infancy, there's not much yet to be found on Gallery.Live.com, but Gadgets have...
Last week we sat down with Ken Levy , Product Planner for the Windows Live Platform to talk about how Microsoft intends to support 3rd party developers across Windows Live. In this interview Ken talks about why Messenger Add-Ins will not be in the options menu by default and how he wants as much feedback...
It is no secret that Microsoft's " Gadgets " are a central focus of the company, with integration already present in Live.com and Windows Vista. The buzz around CES was that there are plans in the works to bring Microsoft Gadgets to Spaces . Microsoft has invested a great deal in bringing...
I sat down with Mike Torres , Lead Program Manager for MSN Spaces to talk about the recent Spaces 10.5 release. Here's some key points in the interview: 0:00 Introduction 1:21 History of Spaces 3:15 Why the delay? 6:50 What's your favorite new feature? 8:07 User Submitted Features 9:18 Live Contacts...
Mix 06 is a 3 day conference in Las Vegas, taking place on March 20th - 22nd, that focuses on how the Internet is changing under our very eyes. Discussing topics such as Internet Explorer 7, Atlas, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows Live, Mix 06 aims to help developers, designers and decision...