2010

Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 to be officially unveiled May 18 in Sydney, Australia

5751_Hotmail_5F00_6DED2A31According to our friend Long Zheng’s blog post, several Australian bloggers and journalist have received an invitation to attend an exclusive lunch briefing about “the new version of Hotmail” in Sydney, Australia, at 12:30pm (AEST) on Tuesday, May 18th,

Wave 4 Essentials to be called “Windows Live Essentials 2011”?

Francisco Martin Garcia, a Microsoft Active Professional, is reporting that the new name for Wave 4 Essentials will be “Windows Live Essentials 2011”:

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(we don’t know if this is an official logo or what, but Francisco posted it and it …

It’s Official: Office Live Workspace is upgrading to Windows Live SkyDrive

Office logoIf you’ve been a regular follower of LiveSide, this is probably not big news to you, as we’ve been reporting since late last year that Windows Live Office, based on SkyDrive, is going to replace Office Live Workspace. However, …

MSN releases a (pretty nice!) MSN Mobile update

MSN.com unveiled a new design in March, and today they’ve upgraded their mobile experience to match.  Featuring a new look, emphasis on breaking news, easy access to Hotmail and Messenger, integration with Bing, as well as the content you’d …

Windows Live Alerts changes

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 …

Official word about the Wave 3 update

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 launches: Office Web Apps begins roll out June 15

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 …

Windows Live Essentials Wave 3 gets an update

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:

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

Bing Maps for Mobile updated: Turn by turn navigation

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:

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The Numbers Game: LiveSide visitor data

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 …