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, …

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 …

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 …

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…

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 …

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 …

This morning the Windows Live Hotmail Technical Support blog posted the following message, only to take it down again sometime later in the day:

We are aware that some Hotmail customers are experiencing an issue seeing their folders with the

Just as we suspected, once we posted on “where’s Hotmail”, we started getting reports of sightings.  Thanks to LiveSide reader Graeme (who is getting his website at www.bitsticks.com running, should be up soon) we have some screenshots:

And Graeme was …

Last week, after receiving a “tip” from Microsoft’s PR firm Waggener Edstrom, we posted on the coming rollout of a new version of Hotmail.  Our readers were quick to try and catch the new version in the wild, checking out …

VEWS was just released and after a few attempts myself to get it working I thought I would share a short video on the sign up process and adding the references to Visual Studio 2008.

Video after the break:…