Yesterday’s flurry of activity on the MSFT-YHOO front had so many plot turns that my head is still spinning, but at the end of the day, analysts are still leaning in favor of a MSFT-YHOO deal.  We could breathlessly …

The New York Times is breaking the news that a new feature for Live Search Maps, called Clearflow, will be announced later today, and the Virtual Earth / Live Maps blog has confirmation.  According to the Times:

The Clearflow system

Chris Pendleton let’s us know about a new site for Virtual Earth’s Bird Eye. Virtual Bird’s Eye – A virtual bird’s eye view of the world – Mapping the News, Interesting Places, Current Events and Unique Attractions.

Virtual Bird’s

Paul Thurrott got word from Microsoft that Windows Live OneCare for Server has gone into private beta:

Last month, Microsoft highlighted its Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Live OneCare for Server, upcoming solutions aimed at providing increased security

There’s an update available for Windows Live Writer. This update, KB 951125, fixes the following 4 problems:

• An error occurs when you publish a post that contains images to Blogger:
Because of a change in the Picasa image-hosting

(Note: while we’ve been serving up a number of potential new Windows Live logos recently, this isn’t one of them.  I just happen to like Clifford the Big Red Dog)

Much has been made recently about last night’s …

A few days ago we found the logo for Live Mesh, today our friends over at LiveSino found a new logo for the long-delayed Windows Live Groups. Here’s what it looks like:

It seems like Microsoft has changed the …

With all the talk about Microsoft’s attempted acquisition of Yahoo!, and with a little help from Nielsen Online, we thought we’d make a quick comparison of some of the main features of both services.  I asked Nielsen if they …

Jason Landridge posted today that a link is available for the first time from Microsoft if you want to install Windows Live for Windows Mobile (known also as “G2”),  on your Windows Mobile 6 device.

Up until now, it depended …

In response to a letter to the Yahoo! Board of Directors on Saturday, Jerry Yang and the Board responded this morning with a letter of their own, again rejecting the Microsoft offer as too low, although stating publicly for …