Our friend and LiveSide reader Gilly2468 over at My Microsoft Life has come across a Windows Live url complete with a partially working Wave 4 Header.  The url, https://consent.live.com, which appears to be available to anyone with a …

Three more Map Apps have been released:
 
This time it’s all about travel!

1. Distance Calculator

Let’s say I want to fly to Seattle. First that would mean I’d have to get to the airport here. With the Distance …

The I’m initiative, if you recall, was a way to support your favorite charity while using Windows Live Messenger or Hotmail, but now, after 3 years, the program has come to an end.  Some of our readers noticed that the …

Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 was officially unveiled yesterday, and one of the major upgrades to Hotmail is it’s tight integration with SkyDrive and Office Web Apps. As part of the announcement, Microsoft also revealed one of their newest …

There’s lots of cool stuff in the new Hotmail, and I got to see it with my own eyes already! Last week I attended a special Windows Live (lunch) session at Microsoft headquarters here in the Netherlands. Dharmesh Mehta …

Microsoft has just taken the wraps off the new Hotmail, and yes there’s a lot of new stuff to tell you about, so let’s get right to the good stuff.  Yes all the junk mail and filter enhancements are cool …

Yet another new map app is available on Bing Maps: Piracy Watch! This app was built by IDV Solutions, who have a slew of additional information about piracy including an interactive heat map of pirate activities around the …

The other day we showed you “Los Links”, the Latin soap-opera spoof Bing commercial, and now we present you…. Episode Dos:

Not sure what to think, actually.  It DOES seem to put “I’m on a horse” in a …

This ad shows off the integration work that has been done to Bing.

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Inspired by an image on the Bing homepage, a man decides how to plan his trip to New York City, from finding a great priced …

Just under a month ago Microsoft took the wraps off Windows Live Messenger, talking for the first time about the new Wave 4 version of the popular instant messaging app and service.  Now, for the first time, Microsoft is officially …