Thanks to Mess.be for spotting this – a Knowledge Base article on what to do if you can’t get Windows Live apps to install.  The article lists the most common problems:

•The system does not meet the minimum requirements

In a few of my plugins, I often find myself using System.Net.HttpWebRequest to get some data from a website, whether from a service or to access a specific part of a website. This is all very well and good, but …

In a press release dated October 18, Microsoft and Dassault Systemes formally announced the launch of 3DVia:

REDMOND, Wash., and PARIS — Oct. 18, 2007 — Dassault Systèmes (DS), a world leader in 3-D and product life-cycle management (PLM)

Microsoft has silently updated its Windows Live Account pages. They are now featuring the new Wave 2 look. In addition to the visual make-over the update brings a long requested and hinted at feature: Linked IDs.

When you sign in …

Kip noted yesterday about WLPG getting an update from Windows Update and included a Microsoft KB link, but what that link doesn’t contain was what else might have come with that update. You might remember last month we hinted that …

Reports are coming in about an update coming through Windows Updates for the Windows Live Photo Gallery, updating to Beta 2.  I’m not seeing it as yet (Update: I had to “check for updates”, as OneCare won’t let me have …

Or more precisely, why are there so many Windows Live home pages? A blog post on Windows Live Wire the other day announced:

As you probably know by now, Windows Live Home is the central page for Windows Live on

Rob Dolin, a Program Manager on the Spaces team, posts tonite with an example of a programmatically created Windows Live Event:

API Details
The link should have taken you to an event create page with all of the specified parameters

The Virtual Earth blog today announced the release of version 6 of its VE SDK. The new SDK is available online on MSDN as well as the interactive SDK on http://dev.live.com/. To get the new version, all you need …