As Ken Levy mentioned earlier this week, the next beta build of Windows Live Messenger will see yet more extensiblity features being made available to 3rd party developers. Windows Live Messenger Add-Ins can be added to increase Messenger's functionality …

In Niall Kennedy's post, linked below, he describes Live.com as the new default home page for Windows Vista and IE7. MSN.com currently receives a huge amount of traffic as the default home page in Windows, and a shift away from …

Niall Kennedy formerly of Technorati, announced that he is joining Windows Live to "create a new product team around syndication technologies such as RSS and Atom." Here's how you'll see this implemented as an end user:

I'll be working closely

Ken Levy, Product Planner for the Windows Live Platform, posted on Monday a link to a new document on the Windows Live Developer Center, Business Opportunity for Building Applications with Windows Live and MSN Messenger . He talks about the …

I will be the first one to admit it, I was having some serious doubts about the future of Windows Live Mail Desktop, that is until the latest build was released to the public. Prior to the recent build, …

Trevin Chow and his team launch their official Windows Live ID blog on MSN Spaces today. He describes what Windows Live ID and how it will affect current Passport users:

Windows Live ID is the upgrade/replacement for the Microsoft Passport

All the signs are pointing to a launch on Tuesday of Windows Live Academic Search. Dean Giustini who met with the team last week says " it's official worldwide launch is Tuesday April 11th, 2006." Given that the domain academic.live.com…

Dean Giustini, a medical librarian at the University of British Columbia gives his thoughts on Windows Live Academic Search:

(W)hat did I think of Microsoft Academic Search? Was I impressed? In short, I wasn't bowled over, but I wasn't

Dare Obasanjo talks about a new Social Networking tool to come to Windows Live Messenger called "Friends List". It allows you to add friends to a social network of your very own. Here's how Dare describes it:

Australian users of

Yellowpages.com, one of the internets biggest yellow pages list website, has chosen to use Windows Live Local / Virtual Earth as their online mapping platform for their website.

Here's what the Windows Live Local Blog says about Yellowpages.com using Virtual …