We’ve had Windows Live Alerts set up for LiveSide for a long time, but to be honest the service just didn’t work all that well for a time, with “alerts” coming hours or even days after we’d posted.  Recently there’s …

Yesterday we reported that there’s a QFE update to Windows Live Essentials. An official word about it appeared on Inside Windows Live:

Today we released an optional update for Wave 3 of the Windows Live Essentials suite in

Office 2010 held a launch event as it released the new version of Office and Sharepoint to businesses today, and Office Web Apps, available through Windows Live, will begin rolling out June 15th, the day that Office 2010 is released …

LiveSide contributor damaster just tipped us to a QFE update to Windows Live Essentials, which will upgrade Essentials from the current build (14.0.8089.726) up to 14.0.8117.416:

The new update doesn’t appear to be at Windows Update (yet), but you can …

Bing Maps for Mobile just released an update for Windows Phones, complete with turn by turn navigation and a new  look for the home page, with popular features like Movies and Traffic given more play:

A post on …

With the announcement that Windows Live Wave 4 Essentials will require Windows Vista or Windows 7, (and with a little glitch in our system that made commenting via IE unavailable for a few days), we thought we would do a …

The new version of Windows Live, “Wave 4”, which should become available in beta form sometime in June, will not work in XP, and a number of you have commented here and on the Inside Windows Live blog about the …

There’s a new map app on Bing maps: the Global Action Atlas by National Geographic. The application allows users to peer into areas where our planet needs help. National Geographic and Bing Maps invite you to support efforts …

Love the Bing’s Best themepacks (wallpapers) but you are not on Windows 7? Now you can have some of Bing’s Best too, as a screensaver! Yes, even if you are still on Windows XP SP2!

System requirements:
– Windows …

It seems like Microsoft has confirmed the release dates for Windows Live Wave 4 web services to be in early June 2010 following an email sent to Microsoft Live@edu administrators about upcoming co-branding changes to Windows Live services. Here’s an …