March, 2009

Windows Marketplace For Mobile Developer Strategy Announced!

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Steve Ballmer announced Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Not much said back then, but now we have some more information. Microsoft announced the developer strategy for the next generation of Windows® Phones (Windows …

PhotoSynth Launches For IPhone

I’m sure by now we all know what Photosynth is. Some of you have already played around with it too, I know we did! CNN News did too, creating a synth of Obama’s Inauguration from pictures the public emailed …

Closing Hotmail brings you to www.live.com

Just saw someone twitter about this, and seems to be true, although not sure how long this has been going on: when you sign out of Hotmail, instead of being taken to MSN.com, you are now taken to www.live.com

Coming at Mix 09: Adding Messenger to your site gets better and (much) easier

mixvegas Mix 09, Microsoft’s annual web developer conference held around this time in Las Vegas, is next week.  Last year we went down to listen to the Ray Ozzie keynote, and learn a bunch about the soon to be …

Windows Live ID Customisation Now Live

Ok, so this was actually live last week, but hey. James Senior blogged last week about Live ID Customisation last week, and also commented this week that LiveWIM have changed their Live ID Sign In page. This is actually a …

Microsoft would still “like to sit down” with Yahoo! on search deal

The Times Online reports today in an interview with Microsoft COO Kevin Turner that the door is still open to a search deal with Yahoo!:

In an interview with The Times, Kevin Turner, chief operating officer of Microsoft, extended

Does Live Mesh crash your Mac? Here’s the fix

Last week’s Live Mesh Service Update fixed a number of problems, including one that crashed Macs shortly after startup (ooh, hate that!).  If you haven’t had the issue with your Mac, well it’s fixed now so you won’t have to …

How to check your Hotmail in Safari (3 or) 4

Ok so we’re a little addicted to Twitter Search, but we’ve seen a bunch of tweets on not being able to check Hotmail on Safari.  There’s a fairly easy way to workaround the problem, so if you’re trying out Safari …

Did Kumo.com go live last night?

Kumo.com, the new iteration of Live Search, is supposed to be in “internal tests”, but apparently at least for a time last night it was live.  We picked up on a re-tweet of a tweet taken down (btw, why bother? …

Email to livewish@? Oops, use feedback.live.com (Update)

We reported this week on a product planner’s attempt to get feedback, asking for ideas sent to an email address he established.  Well now he’s updated the post, after apparently being deluged with mail:

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