2008

Windows Live Platform Announcements: Cool new toys just in time for Mix

With Mix08 less than a week away, details of what’s coming are slowly creeping out: details of the IE8 beta, Scott Guthrie has posted details about Silverlight 2.0. And now the Windows Live Platform team is announcing today …

Microsoft launches WorldWide Telescope into private alpha

It made Scoble cry, and soon it can make you cry too. The website for the latest Microsoft Research project, WorldWide Telescope, is now up at http://wwtelescope.com/. Here’s how Robert describes it:

“So, back to the World Wide Telescope.

Windows Live ID issues continue – Transparency: 0, Switching to GMail: 1

The Times of London is reporting an admission by Microsoft that problems that surfaced two days ago in signing in to Windows Live services continue for some, in spite of Microsoft’s proclamation that the issue had been resolved.  In a …

Musings on MSFT-YHOO

I keep dropping stuff in both the NewsGator Clippings folder and del.icio.us on our MSFT-YHOO page, but since Dare was kind enough to work up a chart I was just thinking about, I thought I would add a few …

Microsoft’s lack of sticking to standards rears it’s ugly head again

I was going to do a short article on how easy it is to extract information and generally mess around with Windows Live Spaces blog posts in your code using LINQ, however due to Microsoft’s lack of sticking to standards, …

Live Services problems reported: LiveID, Messenger, Mail are down for some

Apparently a fairly widespread disruption in some/all LiveID and Live services has been occuring for a good part of the morning (GMT-8).  We don’t know more at this point except to say Messenger had issues signing in here, as did …

Windows Mobile Developer Center Renewed

The Windows Mobile Developer Center has been renewed. First of all you’ll notice there are 4 big boxes delivering the latest articles per category:

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Beside those boxes, on the top right, you’ll find “Getting Started with Windows Mobile”. There you …

New Outlook Connector in the works with Calendar synch for all

At the start of the year there was some discussion around whether MSN Premium offered good value for money in light of all these new and free Windows Live services. While we still think its great if you want several ad …

Re-branding Microsoft

In our conversation with Bill Gates at Mix n Mash last December, Jonathon Snook opened up a can of worms by asking Gates about Microsoft and innovation:

Jonathan Snook: There’s a myth that Microsoft doesn’t innovate. How do you

Microsoft moves towards IE8 beta

Looks like Microsoft is ramping up the teasers for Mix08. Activewin just posted the text from a Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft Connect invitation email.

“Greetings from the Internet Explorer Team! We are nearing the launch of Windows Internet Explorer 8