2007

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 …

I’m initiative produces 25% growth for Windows Live Messenger

Back at the beginning of March, Microsoft launched the “I’m Initiative,” a new charity program carried out through Windows Live Messenger. At the homepage, you can learn more about the charities that are recieving donations and how by putting one …

Windows Live Folders not final name for cloud storage service – Windows Live Skydrive instead?

Some things just seem to keep reappearing like a bad penny, and for Windows Live its undoubtedly the naming strategy. Since the Folders beta was expanded earlier this week, the login page has referenced the service as Windows Live Skydrive. …

Creating Custom Avatars: A Microsoft tool, and others

First, thanks for all the input on our recent upgrade.  We really appreciate it.  Nick has done a great job for us – if you use Community Server, or want to, his contact information is at the bottom of our …

Liveside Wave 3.1

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Yesterday we released a newly redesigned Liveside.net.  In the poll, about 50% of you voted that it needed work.

Well after a days worth of work, I’ve managed to make of the suggested themes into a CS 2007 theme.  …

Windows Live Agents – Sign Up Now For The SDK

image Windows Live Agents might be a new term for some people, but the idea of them certainly isn’t: Windows Live Agents are basically Messenger bots that you have in your contact list. One of the more popular bot creation tools …

LiveSide Wave 3.0 Is Here

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Chris noted that Wave 2 of the Windows Live products and services is fully underway with new updates coming in the future, well, I would like to announce the release of Wave 3 of Liveside.net.

As you should now be …