Yesterday, another one of our favorite but seemingly long lost Windows Live blogs, Inside Windows Live Messenger, posted (first time since Dec. 5, woohoo!) an announcement that version 8.5 of Windows Live Messenger is to be pushed out to …

We just posted on what we had noticed about an increase for SkyDrive storage to 5gb, and we’re pleasantly surprised that the SkyDrive team has just posted on their blog, announcing that indeed, SkyDrive is now at 5gb, that it’s …

Thanks to tipster (tips*at*liveside*dot*net) Liam, it looks like we’re about to see a significant upgrade to the online storage feature from Windows Live, SkyDrive, to 5gb free:

We’ve called for an increase in the storage capacity, if only to …

comScore just posted their search share numbers for January 2008 and it’s bad news for Yahoo.  Yahoo took a 0.7% hit, while Google got a small 0.1% bump.  Windows Live remained the same as last month, so there is …

New upgrade round, in two phases, coming up:

Phase 1. – For those who still aren’t using Windows Live Messenger 8.5 (Windows XP and Vista, optional upgrade): 

First, everyone running Windows XP or Windows Vista will get a prompt

We can already look at Earth with Virtual Earth, but what about the Sky? Microsoft doesn’t have anything for that yet. Yes, that’s right, YET! This might change on February 27th at the TED Conference in Monterey California:

On Live in Europe, Brian Groth reported students can get free software development tools:

Over on Channel 8, the video blog for students, Bill Gates just announced free software for students in a program called DreamSpark.

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Nielsen Online released some interesting web statistics for 2007 in the UK last week, which we found via Mess.be.  Google Search was the most popular website in the UK in 2007, averaging 25.1 million British visitors each month, with …

News is filtering out that a new version of Spaces has been released, apparently last week, on Valentine’s Day (Feb 14).  Our friend Dev at Hack MSN Spaces has a partial list of the changes, the most visible being the …

First let’s take a look at some comScore statistics on this one:

	Google Video Sites: Google Video YouTube Yahoo! Video Sites: Yahoo! Video Yahoo! Live Microsoft Video Site(s): MSN Video (includes Soapbox)
Note: YouTube.com accounted for more than 97 percent