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LiveSide is retiring, thanks for all your support
All good things must come to an end, and this blog is no exception. When Chris Overd, Matthew Weyer, and Harrison Hoffman founded LiveSide.net back in December of 2005 (LiveSide’s first post was on January 3rd, 2006, and my first post was 9 days later, on January 12th), Windows Live had just been announced, and our posts were all about Office Live, Windows Live Expo, OneCare, and emerging …
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What’s your perfect Windows Phone?
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Office updates iOS, Android apps – Windows 10 apps coming soon
Since Microsoft first introduced Office for the iPad last March, it’s been downloaded some 40 million times, even with the restrictions of needing an Office 365 subscription to use it. Today, Microsoft announced that Office will soon be coming to …
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The long, promising (and frustrating) history of Microsoft’s consumer file sync services
By Kip Kniskern in Commentary
November 21st, 2014 at 8:29 am