February, 2007

MSN to host Live Earth concert series

At the end of last week there was some chatter from the FT about Al Gore announcing on Saturday a series of concerts to promote climate change. While even the likes of the FT sometimes get their dates wrong, an …

Microsoft announces Windows Live Mobile applications

While there is nothing ground-breaking in last night’s 3GSM announcement regarding Windows Live Mobile, its worth highlighting the work the Mobile team has done in producing some great final products. Torres gets it spot on when he says “old …

Windows Live Search snippets

Here’s a few things relating to Search that caught our eye this week:

Live.com to get social – share your own pages

In a relatively un-noticed post on the Windows Live Gallery blog last week, a new feature called Windows Live Collections was mentioned. Collections are pre-made Live.com pages with feeds and gadgets that you can add to your own Live.com homepage. Although the …

New Spaces themes available

Karen posted on the Space Craft yesterday that there are some new themes available for your Spaces blogs – including some LeBron James ones that are part of an upcoming LeBron challenge on MSN (for those international readers who haven’t …

Enough Branding Jokes: Why Windows Live Hotmail is a good name that’s bad

Really.  At some point this has just got to stop.  Someone has got to get enough Kahunas at Microsoft to figure out a branding strategy for Windows Live, stick with it, and get on with the business of building a brand …

Windows Mobile 6 to include tight Windows Live integration

Tonight, Brandon LeBlanc reported on the impending release of Windows Mobile 6.  He pointed out some pretty cool integration with Windows Live.  Windows Live for Mobile will be included in Windows Mobile 6.

As you can see in the …

Windows Live Mail Desktop Gets Update

Tanja on the Live Mail Desktop team blog has announced that the February refresh of WLMD is now available via Windows Update. For XP users go to http://update.microsoft.com/ and for Vista users, click the Start button and just type Update. …

Windows Live Mail? No? How about Windows Live Hotmail….?

Ok, so this whole Windows Live rebranding thing has been pretty messy at times, services renamed, sometimes many times (Live Maps anyone?) and today sees this trend continue. So first off we had Hotmail, then Kahuna (this was the codename), then …

Windows Live.com Happy Valentine’s Day Template

Happy Valentines! 

Ok… maybe it’s a little bit to early but still St Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, so why not apply this Happy Valentine’s Day Template to your Windows Live.com Homepage and bring out the love in you!  …