September, 2006

LiveSide update

We're currently updating the site, and will post more details on the changes later. Existing users can login with their old accounts once they have reset their password.

Password reset

Updating the news on updates

As we said, both code-name Max and Live.com released updates on Friday.  Max added RSS and ATOM feed reading to the photo sharing and more to come product, as well as support for the .Net Framework 3.0 rc1. You can …

Messenger 8.1 Beta released to testers

Word is out that Messenger 8.1 is up on Connect for the testers, mostly Windows Live Butterflys, who have been accepted into the program, some 1689 testers, Mess.be is reporting, although many more are “pending”. 

JCXP reports that roaming has …

Microsoft Max to upgrade

Microsoft codename Max, the photo organizer/feed reader that is really going to be more about storing, organizing, and sharing content of all types, is about to upgrade, according to their blog:

Over the next few hours, we’ll be upgrading

Warhol to become MSN Soapbox

In a somewhat surprising move, the upcoming Microsoft video upload site, codenamed Warhol, currently running under the "final" name Soapbox, will be not fall under the Windows Live brand.

Although the site is still in internal beta at http://soapbox.msn.com, here's …

An Active Live Writer community

Scott Lovegrove’s “Insert Spaces Emoticon” plugin to Live Writer is the latest in a steady stream of plugins for the Windows Live beta product. Mike Torres of Spaces talks about his favorite Live Writer plugins wlwplugins.com continues to

News over the weekend

It's the Labor Day Holiday here in the US, and everyone is pretty much gone for the three day weekend, but it gives us some time to catch up on some news.

As noted elsewhere, Windows Live Search has upgraded

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Taking a look at Windows Live Essentials and Dashboard

WindowsLive.gifLast week, Chris talked about a new pair of Windows Live services called Essentials and Dashboard. Since then, we have investigated the Essentials service along with the Dashboard client and we're ready to share more along with, of course, screenshots. …