September, 2008

Photosynth Update, September 8

  Photosynth just got its second update:

  • Improved upload success rate. This update should significantly reduce the number of synths failing with error code “0xA000000B”. The problem happens when a file is currupted on it’s way to storage. We’ve

Microsoft Translation goes in-house

A day late on this one, but congratulations anyway to the Microsoft Research Translation Team for making the transition from a third party translation technology to going “in-house”.  From the MSR-MT blog:

  • Translation now fully powered by the Microsoft

As expected, Microsoft unveils Windows Live Video Messages

mslv_welcome_gadget While Steve Jobs, his health, and a new slew of iPods dominated the tech news today, Microsoft tried to make a bit of a splash as well.  Zune is getting a new color and some new capabilities (including expanded sync …

More on Wave 3: Windows Live Writer to support YouTube, Events and Photo Albums

Having told you about what’s coming in Messenger, Mail, Movie Maker and Photo Gallery, it’s now time to cover the next one in the series: Windows Live Writer. Let us start off with a screenshot for you:

We’ve noticed on …

Live Mesh buildup begins: Mesh Apps shown at Tech Ed Australia

Good thing our friend Long Zheng is an accomplished lurker, as his annoying persistent hanging around the Live Mesh guys at Microsoft’s Tech Ed Australia paid off last week.  Long got what we think is the first public look at

LiveSide weekend catchup

As some of you may have noticed, our RSS feed has been a bit weird this past week, not matching the stories posted on the site. This is now fixed (fingers crossed), but means those lazy RSS readers like myself …

A picture is worth a thousand words: People Tags in Windows Live Photo Gallery Wave 3

You’ve heard it at LiveSide (and LiveSino) first, that Windows Live Photo Gallery will feature facial recognition in its wave 3 release. Then we saw a mocked-up screenshot of how it may have looked like. Microsoft then helped us confirm …

Live Mesh Service Update: 0.9.3103.14

As we noted the other day, Live Mesh had a slight issue if you stopped syncing a folder. Well, the Live Mesh team have issued an update that fixes this:

Fixed issue where deleting a Live Mesh folder on one

1 Billion Requests A Month And Counting. Nice One Messenger Team

Keiji has posted on the Messenger developer blog that they have reached A billion requests a month with Windows Live Presence API.

Since then, a growing number of sites like Daum in Korea, and applications like the Windows Live

Movie Maker to join Windows Live family with Wave 3

We first told you about Movie Maker moving over to Windows Live back in March, and our old pal Bill Gates confirmed it to Todd Bishop of the Seattle PI at the end of June.  Movie Maker, up until …