August, 2006

Windows Live OneCare Family Safety beta now available!

WLSafety new icon.jpgFollowing the recent Windows Live OneCare Family Safety Invites being sent out to Windows Live Butterflies and the appearing of Windows Live OneCare Family Safety on Connect we thought that this Beta would be resticted to only those who had …

Office Live offers Early Adopter Program

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"Microsoft Office Live will launch an Early Adopter phase for US Partners later this year giving participants access to the upcoming version of Office Live.
This new version is based Windows SharePoint Services (version 3) offering increased functionality to customers

A Post on Gadgets and Plugins

Thomas J. points to a number of new Gadgets for Spaces, including Hangman and Pong, a Mortgage rates watch, a Technorati Search Gadget, and a Gas Prices Gadget, among others.

And recently Dare pointed out problem with memory leaks

QnA goes into public beta

WLQnA new icon.jpgWindows Live Qna is now in a public beta, available at qna.live.com. Betsy Aoki has the details over at the QnA team blog.

Disclaimer: USA only…

Verizon to provide co-branded Windows Live services

Hot off the Microsoft PR wagon is news that Verizon will be providing its high-speed internet subscribers with co-branded Windows Live services:

Verizon customers will have access to co-branded information and communications services, including a co-branded Live.com home page with

Alerts goes Live

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The MSN Alerts service has now been migrated over to Windows Live, and is available from http://alerts.live.com.

"Get headlines from your home town, scores and updates for your teams, stock quotes, traffic for your commute-just about anything that is

More Live.com goodness.

WLLive.com icon.gifAs promised, there is an update to Live.com with a new look, easier on-the-fly customization, add multiple pages and so much more. Also, Live.com can constantly update search queries for the web, news, images and feeds on the main …

Windows Live Marketplace (Agora) to launch Monday?

A few weeks ago, Mary-Jo Foley at Microsoft watch first mentioned Agora during a roundup of the Windows Live services. It appears that Agora is the codename for the replacement for Windows Marketplace, unoriginally expected to be Windows Live …

Motorola T31 – Windows Live Messenger phone

WLMobile icon.gifMotorola have now released details on their upcoming T31 series of cordless phones, designed to work with Windows Live Messenger. The T3153 and T3101 both support upto 6 handsets, with the only difference being a separate base

unit for the …

Hotspot Locator website launches

The Windows Live Wifi Suite blog is now public at http://nowires.spaces.live.com/, where already they have announced the Hotspot Locator website http://hotspot.live.com/. Also, if you would like to be on the client beta, you can email your Windows Live ID to …