2008

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 …

Wave 3 Is Coming: Mail with Windows Live Calendar sync

No, not the web version, that’s Windows Live Hotmail. We spoke about that one already. This time it’s about the desktop client, Windows Live Mail. That one is going to get a new version in Wave 3 too.…

Windows Live Messenger – more new features expected

So now that everybody is using the leaked Wave 3 Milestone 1 build, (oops we can’t talk about that) and Microsoft employees are using the latest Milestone 2 daily builds, we thought it was time to just cut to …

On the eve of Wave 3; the promise and the problems

It’s been three years almost since Windows Live was launched back in November of 2005, and the road from there to here has been anything but smooth.  Almost from the beginning, no one could seem to answer the simple question …

Live Mesh : CAUTION: Deleting Folders From Your Mesh Or Changing Folder Synchronization Settings Will Stop Synchronization Of That Folder On All Devices

The Live Mesh team just posted an urgent warning on their forum:

CAUTION: Please do not delete any folders from your mesh or change folder synchronization settings.

The Live Mesh team has discovered an issue with the latest version