According 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, …

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

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

If 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.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 …

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 …