Over the next couple days the Live Mesh Servers will undergo some maintenance. During this time you may experience Live Mesh service outages, including Live Mesh folders that are not synchronizing, or an inability to establish Live Mesh Remote …

Good to see the Windows Live Wire blog start to focus on Wave 3, this time with a good post by Eric Doerr on Windows Live Movie Maker.  If you’ve taken a look at Windows Live Movie Maker, you’ve …

Just in from Microsoft Research, a new tool for ranking, sorting, and sharing search results called URank.  URank, a research prototype developed at Microsoft Research by Emre Kiciman, Shuo Chen, and  intern Konstantin Mertsalov, with some help apparently …

The Virtual Earth JavaScript control is not small weighing in at 217KB when compressed in Version 6.2. When you require the rich experience of Virtual Earth this size is not an issue, the control is aimed at broadband users and …

Are you in one of those countries where Microsoft Virtual Earth didn’t have good imagery? Good news for you, and for all those who like to watch these countries with VE too of course and for VE in general. There’s …

The Virtual Earth JavaScript control has supported tile overlays for some time. A tile layer is set of 256px square images matching the Mercator projection of Virtual Earth. Tile layers are usually layered on top of Virtual Earth, the control …

Corrections

Before moving onto the next part of the Web Messenger User Control, I was running through the code I have developed so far and happened upon a couple of bugs, so this part of the Web Messenger User Control …

Mashable just spotted the new implementation of Live Search integrated into Facebook.  According to Mashable:

The implementation is fairly straightforward: in the search box on the top right of Facebook, which is also used for quick access to your

What does WorldWide Telescope have to do with Microsoft Virtual Earth?

Chris Pendleton explains:

… since Microsoft Virtual Earth is a part of that Microsoft Research project I thought it would interest some of you that we decided

Continuing our series on the Web Messenger control we will take a look at a couple of more API calls you can make and give your control added functionality.

Going back to our class there are another couple of properties …