October, 2008

Live Mesh at PDC: David Treadwell “spills the beans”

With PDC, the Professional Developer’s Conference and Microsoft’s big coming out party for Software + Services coming in only three weeks, news is starting to filter out about what to expect.  Last week in London Steve Ballmer let loose that …

A minor update to Live Search homepage

As I’ve always had My.Live.com set as my homepage, this (minor) update to Live Search homepage over at Live.com actually skipped pass my eyes. It only occurred to me today that they have updated the homepage – but don’t worry, …

Windows Live Messenger release date confirmed

According to an email sent out tonight to users of MSN Direct Spot watches, which will not support the new Wave 3 version, Windows Live Messenger is set to be released on February 10, “2008” (sic).  The email gives the …

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 5

In the last part of this series we covered customizing the Windows Live Sign-In Control and some of the new features that have been added to the API for this control.  In this part we will cover some of the …

Ballmer drops a bombshell: “Windows Cloud” coming at PDC

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, speaking at an IT conference in London, revealed that Microsoft will unveil a new operating system, which he dubbed “Windows Cloud”, at PDC at the end of this month.  According to a post at The Register

Hotmail Wave 3 includes Web Messenger for some lucky readers

Well we’re still waiting for the new Hotmail, but we really appreciate the tips and feedback we’ve been getting, and the comments.  Special thanks this time to one anonymous reader, who not only has the new Hotmail, but also a …

Live Search Perks – more rewards for using Live Search

It all started with Live Search Club, the somewhat maligned program to reward users for playing games using Live Search (and somewhat skewing search share counts, causing a bit of a scramble by Compete.com and others).  Then last May …