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New WindowsLive.Com To Feature User Generated Content

Windows has had a new look at Microsoft.com , and today WindowsLive.com joins the family, with a new look and a new project centered on allowing users to feature their tips and stories on Windows Live to a vast Microsoft audience. Content will be featured on the WindowsLive.com homepage, and also on...

Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Kip Kniskern on 08-03-2008
Microsoft launches Windows Live FrameIt – Customise your photo feeds

Wow I love these guys. No hiding away by removing web pages inadvertently left on the internet, instead they come straight out and blog about it , launching a public release at the same time. You can check out the service, Windows Live FrameIt, over at http://frameit.com which has just launched into...

Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Chris on 07-31-2008
Windows Live Photo Gallery Will Soon Recognize Faces In Pictures

Digital Inspiration unveils a little bit about the face recognition in the upcoming Windows Live Photo Gallery : Imagine this. You connect a digital camera to your PC for transferring photos and the software is able to recognize family members and friends in the photos by their faces. (Clarification...

Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Sunshine on 07-24-2008
Microsoft releases new Outlook Connector with Windows Live Calendar beta synchronisation for all

Microsoft has just released a new version of the Outlook Connector, giving users access to the Windows Live services through Outlook. In what will be a popular move (judging by the comments on our last Calendar post ), the latest version now adds in calendar synchronisation. This allows users of the...

Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Chris on 07-23-2008
Windows Live Calendar Upgraded

Live Calendar has had an (Wave 3) upgrade whilst I was asleep. No major UI change, but there is some new stuff! Events are now integrated, in other words you can now create events from within Calendar. Old news, check out the other updates below. You can also subscribe to public calendars, well ehh later...

Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Sunshine on 07-16-2008
Microsoft ad spend rises to $500m - Windows.com gets “FTP” update and promotes Windows Live

Today saw another Microsoft ad campaign being won by the agencies , this time for the Business Solutions unit, with $200m being the amount touted for winning the enterprise advertising. This is in addition to the $300m for the consumer campaign going to Crispin Porter + Bogusky, part of which is the...

Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Chris on 07-14-2008
MobileMe Review

After our original post on MobileMe we came in for some criticism for our rather pro-Apple attitude. Our initial thoughts were that Apple had shown a compelling set of products, that showed some nice design touches and boasted strong integration with their hardware, in particular the iPhone. Well today...

Posted to OurView: The Opinion Blog (Weblog) by Chris on 07-12-2008
How to build a cloud: Debra Chrapaty on data centers

When we talked to Bill Gates last November at Mix n Mash, he described Windows Live: All those consumer services are basically big, big volume. They're tiny businesses in a sense, but they're very important for the population of users that you connect up to and the opportunities you get out of...

Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Kip Kniskern on 07-01-2008
New i’m Initiative campaign to begin: 30 days of non-stop email and IM

Microsoft has been having some good success with the (US only) i’m Initiative , having raised $1.5 million for charities, and at the same time pushing new downloads of Windows Live Messenger (and more recently, Hotmail sign-ups): New customer acquisition : More than 20 million downloads of Windows Live...

Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Kip Kniskern on 06-24-2008
Another One Bites the Dust - Windows Live for TV

With all the news about Windows Live/Live Search products being dropped for good lately we almost forgot to add another one to the list - one that never made it out of beta. After the first drop of Codename Orbit hit the web back in December 2006 and a little update released the following April it got...

Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Gregor on 06-10-2008

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