When we introduced you to Windows Live Core (now Windows Live Platform Services) just over a year ago, we mentioned James Hamilton and his work on commoditizing server installations, in particular by using containers.  Well here we are a year …

Mary-Jo Foley spotted that Microsoft are set to give a Live Mesh demo presentation during the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo conference at the end of April. Running from April 22nd-24th, Amit Mital the “General Manager of Live Mesh” is leading …

Compete.com released their version of March US search market share numbers on Friday, showing a surprising surge for Live Search, up nearly 4 percentage points from February (a notoriously slow, and short, month), and up .7% year over year.  …

Where there’s smoke, there’s bound to be fire, and yesterday’s leaked warning shots across Jerry Yang’s bow resulted in a letter today from Steve Ballmer to Yahoo!, saying in effect: take the offer we have on the table, …

MediaWeek is reporting on the unveiling of “an ambitious slate of original programming created for its multiple web platforms, including the MSN portal, MSNBC.com and Xbox Live” before a group of ad agency and marketing types at a Digital Showcase …

As most will know by now, Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web, an Adobe Flash competitor. Mary Jo Foley discovered a Microsoft …

We just can’t get enough of Ray Ozzie’s latest project Live Mesh, so much so that when we saw what could be the current logo on the dogfood mobile login page, we just had to share. It reminds …

OneCare, the anti-virus/tune-up/back-up all in one program, has just opened up a public beta of version 2.5 (current released version is 2.0.2500.22, on my machine, anyway).  Anyone can go to Microsoft Connect and sign up and try the new beta, …

In what can only be described as a bizarre and non-sensical decision, Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on Windows Live Writer. Our insider sources tell us that because of the long delay between builds for the final release …

Last week saw the public beta launch of Windows Search 4.0. While it brought several welcome improvements for consumers to the standard Windows Vista search, namely speed and better searching of remote computers, I can’t help get the feeling …