June, 2006

Spaces ready to compete with MySpace

Spaces icon.gifThe Spaces url change, switching blogs from spaces.msn.com/myblog to myblog.spaces.msn.com, has just been completed. The update was delayed several times in the past week. (Thanks View Master for the tip).

While I originally voiced the opinion that 3 url changes …

Tech-Ed attendees don’t get Windows Live

Trevin Chow from the Live ID team highlights the issues that we believe could result in a very slow uptake of Windows Live services; unawareness and confusion:

After talking to about 25 customers, it was abundantly clear that customers

New account names available June 20: @live.com and @windowslive.com

Looks like the land grab is about to get underway. According to the Mail Support blog, anyone will be able to get a new email account with an @live.com or an @windowslive.com address beginning next Tuesday, June 20.

Coming

Microsoft debuts Windows Live LifeCams

lifecam.gifToday, Microsoft announced the availability of its new High Definition webcams knows as LifeCams in August of this year. We told you aboutt the impending release of this new generation of webcams back in early May. The specifications have not …

Client Server Service Synergy – the Ray Ozzie Keynote at Tech Ed

Tonight Ray Ozzie presented a very enlightening keynote on why software as a service is important (a disruption, to use his term), that it will fundamentally change the way we use computers, and where Microsoft's implementation of services, Windows Live, …

Messenger delayed?

WLMessenger new icon.gifThe word on the street today was that the Windows Live Messenger launch has been delayed. Or at least that's what one website said after having stated last week that the launch was this Friday. When the actual launch is …

Windows Live at Tech-Ed

Windows Live at Tech-Ed

Tech Ed is about to begin, with a Ray Ozzie keynote tonite (Sunday June 11) at 7pm EDT (gmt -5). We're expecting some Windows Live announcements during the week, including the official announcement of dev.live.com, some …

Some notes on Windows Live dev

dev.png…on the eve of the official announcement of dev.live.com. First off, a new SDK (software development kit) has surfaced at dev.live.com and MSDN, the
Messenger Add-In SDK – beta
. Unfortunately, the two available sdk's for Messenger are listed …

MSReadr from Niall Kennedy: WL Information Aggregator

Niall Kennedy, in a rare post actually about Windows Live on his blog ;), brings us MSReadr:

Many people like to keep up with new product announcements and launches across Microsoft but wish they had an aggregated way

Windows Live @ Tech-Ed 2006 & Messenger Final

WLSoon icon.gifNext week is Tech-Ed 2006 and what we're hearing is likely to be the "relaunch" of Windows Live. We've already mentioned that the Windows Live Developer Community (dev.live.com) is expected to launch, of which we posted a preview earlier in …