August, 2007

More Home.Live.com goodness

From the “woah, Microsoft is UNSTOPPABLE” category, Chris just noticed that the color of the (too large??) header turns colors with the changing time of the day.  Here in sunny Seattle we’re still in the light blue zone:

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SkyDrive With Spaces and Writer [Plugin Updated]

With SkyDrive not even 6 hours old, we already have our first addins for it. The Spaces and SkyDrive team have just unveiled a new module for your Windows Live Space, one that shows the public folders you have on …

Microsoft launches new Windows Live Home beta

Yet another bolt out the blue (maybe not), Microsoft just launched the new Windows Live Home beta portal. At the moment it offers only basic functionality, ie no integration, just access to all the Windows Live services. Funnily …

A reminder that Microsoft’s Search has a long way to go yet

As if we needed to see the gulf between Google and the rest, the Windows Live SkyDrive rename and update has only just hit the top of techmeme and yet Google has already updated its index and ranking and is …

Windows Live SkyDrive – A First Look

skydriveWell, as Chris announced, SkyDrive is here and sports a nice new Wave 2 look, so let’s take a look at exactly what has changed, and what you can do with SkyDrive now.

New Look 

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Previously Accessed Folders

Windows Live Folders renamed to Skydrive – Gets update too

Today sees the somewhat expected renaming of Windows Live Folders to its final name, Windows Live Skydrive. There is also a significant update to the service, extending the basic functionality that was criticised somewhat at the start of the initial …

Windows Live Toolbar Buttons: Creating your own

I got bored yesterday, so to satisfy an hours’ boredom, I took a look at the buttons on the Windows Live Toolbar as you can easily create your own. There are two ways of doing it, the easy way, or …

Get ready for a new Live.com – Windows Live Home

At a briefing given to Japanese press about Windows Live, Tetuya Onoda  (Windows Live Director) held up a nice big picture of the new Windows Live Homepage that looks set to replace the existing personalised Live.com page. Featuring the new …

Windows Live ID – Part 3 – Putting it all together

In the previous two articles I showed you how to use the Windows Live ID login control in your web site then we developed a custom Membership provider so that you could hook Windows Live ID in with asp.net’s build …

Family Safety Gets Update – Contact Controls

Last week Windows Live Family Safety got updated to allow parents to have some control over who their children can have on their contact list within Windows Live Messenger, so long as you are using the current version (which for …