With the Essentials suite recently released and Live Writer 2009 going final, I’d like to take a moment and just point out some great collaboration work between the Live Writer and Live Spaces team. Here are my 5 favourite new …

Yesterday Windows Live Calendar shut down for a bit in order to prepare for their latest incarnation, and today they’re back, having shed the “beta” tag and added some nice new features (we’re talking about the online calendar, at Calendar.live.com …

We spent the day today (Jan 13) on campus, talking to some of the people who have helped to bring you Wave 3.  In quite a coincidence, one of them was Omar Shahine, who we spoke to last fall when …

The Live Mesh Team is out of their holiday blackout period for releases and announces the long awaited Windows Client update will be available later today.

Fixes

• Conflict-handling improved for duplicate files and folders

• Live Mesh no longer disables Aero

Tomorrow the Windows Live Calendar service will be down for a few hours:

Windows Live Calendar Planned Downtime on Tuesday, January 13

Our team is about to release more cool features to the Windows Live Calendar service. In preparation for

According to search marketing firm AdGooroo, first page advertising activity on the top three search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Live Search) was up sharply in the first two months of the fourth quarter.

We estimate that Microsoft has increased their

A Dutch website, www.iphoneclub.nl, is reporting that at least some users are able to access Hotmail on their iPhones using POP3, which has been promised for Hotmail for free but up until now has only been available with …

Finland now also has Live Maps (Virtual Earth), including 3D and Bird’s Eye images.

More details, and a lesson in Finnish, can be found over at Chris Pendleton’s.…

2008 brought us an early look at Live Mesh, at its core a way to synchronize data across devices and into the cloud, using a set of RSS extensions now known as Feedsync.  Starting out with the ability to sync …

I’ve been really enjoying the daily background images in the Live Search home page (www.live.com), which have been changing daily since the Olympics:

(www.live.com/?mkt=en-us)

Unfortunately most other markets don’t get to see background images, but that …