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Windows Live Wave 2 launches tomorrow night

In case you forgot that Windows Live Wave 2 is launching tomorrow night (for GMT through to PST – Wednesday morning for those ahead of GMT), Microsoft have put up a handy countdown clock to remind you.

From a client/application …

Windows Live Calendar first impressions: We do some “testing” of our own

While it isn’t out “officially” yet, Windows Live Calendar popped up for the first time on Friday evening and it’s been up steadily here ever since (but only on some accounts).  Some of our readers haven’t been able to access it at …

Windows Live Calendars Is Now Out! [Updated – almost there but not quite yet]

After what seems like ages, Windows Live Calendar is finally out there. Update: almost out there.  Windows Live Calendar was indeed up for a bit, for testing, and will be going live in a public beta VERY very …

Windows Live Calendar Beta – Get ready!

Update: Windows Live Calendar beta has now launched. Check it out at http://calendar.live.com or read our first review.

We haven’t talked about Windows Live Calendar for a while now, in fact our last post was about the start of the …

Easy Way To Upload Silverlight Apps To Windows Live

image Back when I wrote about adding a Silverlight Streaming app to your blog, I showed you how to add the Silverlight app to your SLS account at http://silverlight.live.com/. Well, now there is an addon for Expression Encoder (thanks …

Catching up on some stuff we forgot to tell you about

Been a lot going on with Windows Live in the past few weeks, with Events, and new Live Search and Maps features, Linked IDs, and Gallery.  Unfortunately when we’re scrambling to keep up with the big stories (not that we’re …

Messenger 9, GTalk integration, Messenger API, new client for Mac OS X – news unveiled at Georgia Tech presentation (whew)

In a presentation to the Georgia Institute of Technology’s IEEE Student Branch yesterday, Microsoft employee and Georgia Tech (edit: graduate former student – Jenks went to work for MS before graduating) Andrew Jenks had some surprises in store. “It wasn’t …

Windows Live Developer Event In The UK

If you’re in the UK and interested in developing using the Windows Live Platform, then Microsoft are going to be hosting a developer event next Tuesday (6th November) at their Reading HQ.

From the event page:

Overview:

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Yes, the Live Search and Live Search Traffic gadgets are gone: security concerns cited

We’ve received some tips and comments about the Live Search Traffic gadget for Vista being removed from Windows Live Gallery when it updated last week, and indeed it is gone, along with the Live Search gadget.  In an email to Donavon West, …

adCenter Gatineau beta launches: Microsoft website analytics

While not strictly a Windows Live product, website analysis is an important tool that has been missing from Microsoft’s toolkit.  That changed today, as Microsoft’s new addition to its adCenter suite of advertiser and website owner tools, code named Gatineau, …