Welcome back to the second part of our deep dive in the Windows Live Quick Apps Website featuring the Contoso Bicycle Club. In this part we’ll take a look at another custom user control found on the home page, the …

The Contoso Bicycle Club is a demonstration website put together to show off a number of Windows Live technologies and how easy it is to integrate these …

Today sees the start of the public beta for perhaps the most long-awaited Windows Live service – Windows Live Calendar. Two years ago on November 1st 2005 Bill Gates first announced Windows Live, so it’s fitting that the launch of the public beta …

When I interviewed Angus Logan and Danny Thorpe at MixUK back in September, we were told about a new toolkit that would be coming for Visual Studio that would be very similar in design to the Facebook toolkit that Microsoft …

Back in September at MIX UK we got a first look at a Messenger presence feature. Today marks the release of this handy little addition to the Messenger family. But what does Windows Live Messenger IM Control actually do? Easiest …

Looks like nothing can stay quiet for long – a new installer featuring the final Windows Live Wave 2 programs is available for download thanks to Microsoft’s early preparations. While not much has changed in the applications themselves since the …

Microsoft just enabled the @live.xx signup! Go grab yours now! http://get.live.com/getlive/overview for the local domains (eg @live.co.uk) or use the following link for @live.com – @live.com signup.

So far the list of confirmed available aliases is:

Jacky Mok just posted a link to the system requirements for the soon to be released Windows Live Suite apps, and they include 64bit support, but only if you’re running Vista.  from Jacky’s blog post:

Platform

32 bits

64 bits

Windows Live Calendar made its first appearance last Friday evening (PST), was available for a while, but then access for new account sign ups was turned back off (if you logged in to Windows Live Calendar while it was available, …

LiveSino is reporting that Microsoft will be opening up registration for @live.com email addresses this Tuesday.  LiveSino, of course, is our sister site in China that translates our posts into Chinese and also has exclusive content of their own.  A …