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LiveSide Now With Live ID Goodness

What’s going on here?! Two sign in buttons?

Don’t fret, you’re not seeing a bug, it’s the new Windows Live ID SSO addon I’ve built for Community Server.

You can now choose how to sign into Liveside.net, via the normal …

Windows Live Hotmail gets update – 5GB inboxes for free, 10GB for Plus

Yes the Hotmail team has been quiet for a while since their v1 launch, however they’ve just launched a small but feature-packed update. As well as offering free accounts the new storage size of 5GB, paying customers (Hotmail Plus …

More information (and some speculation) about Hotmail

With the announced release of Windows Live Hotmail still rolling out, a bit more information has come out in the form of some blog posts from Hotmail team members. 

First, Steve Kafka goes more in depth into cleaning up your

LiveSide Wave 3.3 – Mobile

LiveSide.net on your mobile.  Simply go to liveside.net, and it’ll redirect you to the mobile version of the home page.  Please note that it’s only for the homepage news so you wont get the thinned down theme on the rest …

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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(while we’re …

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 …