Hey there’s a new posting on the Windows Live QnA blog!  Except for one post with just a picture of a heart in October, there hasn’t been a post since August of last year.  Anyway, The post introduces "new" …

After today’s reports by users on MoDaCo that Windows Mobile and Symbian users were all seeing notifications informing them to sign up to a trial period for Windows Live Mobile Messenger, we’ve received a statement back from Microsoft after our …

Users of the free Windows Live Messenger client available on Windows Mobile got a shock today when they tried to log in, a notice saying “Starting today, your 30 day trial period begins”. Uh oh! So far this relates to Windows Mobile …

<A style="FLOAT: right; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px" href="/blogs/main/WindowsLiveWriter/SendLiveSearchMapsinfotoGarminGPSthrough_123EC/nuvi780_2.jpg" mce_src="/blogs/main/WindowsLiveWriter/SendLiveSearchMapsinfotoGarminGPSthrough_123EC/nuvi780_thumb.jpg" mce_href="/blogs/main/WindowsLiveWriter/SendLiveSearchMapsinfotoGarminGPSthrough_123EC/nuvi780_2.jpg" align="right" >Among a number of partner announcements at CES, Garmin, Live Search Maps, and MSN Direct announced new functionality that allows Garmin GPS devices, including the new Garmin nüvi …

Microsoft announced today plans to acquire Norwegian enterprise search leader FAST for about $1.2 billion US dollars cash, or a 42% premium on the company’s current price on the Norwegian stock market.  FAST is a leader in the enterprise search …

For those who missed the CES 2008 keynote, Bill Gates’ last, you didn’t miss much in respect to Windows Live. Nathan Weinberg liveblogged it, with the main appearance being a demo Windows Live Calendar, Events, Photo Gallery and Spaces. …

We don’t cover Xbox Live enough here on LiveSide, but we’ve been following the news of some problems in accessing Xbox Live over the holidays.  In a nutshell, apparently Xbox Live couldn’t keep up with unprecedented traffic, and connections have …

So suddenly out of nowhere a discussion has blown up about how Microsoft is charging its MSN Premium users for services that are being made available for free to other users*. As Ina Friend points out, a large number of users …