Back in April we told you about the Windows Live and other Microsoft products nominations for the Webware 100 Awards 2009. Well, the winners just got announced. Nearly 630,000 votes were cast during the voting this year to …

Kumo, the for now name of a newly rebranded Microsoft Live Search, should be upon us soon.  Kumo has been in corporate wide internal testing at Microsoft since early March (oops added the time frame), and at least parts of …

Just so you know:

The My Phone service will be not be available on May 18 to enable deployment of a service upgrade. During this maintenance period, you will be unable to access the My Phone web site or to

Thanks to our friend Robert McLaws, we’re set up here at LiveSide with a nightly backup using Jungle Disk and Amazon S3.  We’ve been pretty impressed by it, especially with the ~$1.00/mo charges we pay to have our database …

As much as I like the relative anonymity that comes with being an unfamiliar face, I feel as though a brief introduction is in order.  

My name is Chris Poirier. I am a two time Windows Live MVP Award Recipient, …

Well it was probably only a matter of time, but GMail has introduced a new feature that makes it easier for users of other email services with POP access to migrate their accounts.

Of course Hotmail, after what seemed to …

Another Laptop Hunters ad is out (this time they buy a Dell), and the ad sticks true to form – Go to Best Buy, thumb your nose at the Mac, walk away happy.  These ads were good right out of …

Following on from my previous tutorial on how to integrate the Windows Live Web Bar into your site, we’ll build upon this and show you some of the other UI controls that you can use in your site.

One thing …

Just announced this morning is the news that OnStar, the General Motors “in vehicle safety and security” subscription service, will soon be using Microsoft’s Virtual Earth in their emergency response system.  This means that OnStar operators will have access …

Want to game and improve your geographical skills at the same time? Then UMapper’s Virtual Earth game “Geodart” is for you. GeoDart is a geography trivia game that invites users to answer geographical questions by placing answers …