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Microsoft launches CTP for OpenID support in Windows Live ID

Yet another PDC announcement, and this one is from the Windows Live ID team. They’ve just opened up a Live ID test bed for those developers who want to start playing with Open ID integration. See for yourself.

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There’s …

Windows Live beta discussion forum

As we’ve been asked a number of times for some discussion forums, we’ve set one up for the Windows Live Wave 3 betas.

Check it out.

This will not formally be moderated, so please keep things on-topic and respectful. …

Wave 3: Windows Live Toolbar beta

So I drew the short-straw and ended up with the Toolbar beta review. In fact that was a sacrifice I was willing to make, as we’d heard about some cool stuff coming in Wave 3. Alas, none of it made …

Official Windows Live download site goes live

Oh Hai. Looks like http://download.live.com has now been switched on, so if you still haven’t installed the new Windows Live Wave 3 betas that we posted earlier today, now is your chance. Anybody else notice that the Wave 3 …

New Windows Live Betas – Download Wave 3 Now! (Updated With International Goodness)

With the Windows Live Wave 3 beta due to start today, we thought we’d provide our readers with a small headstart on the rest of the world. Here’s the download links for the new Wave 3 suite of applications, including …

Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments

You know what they say: “two heads are better than one”. The same is true for inquisitive users, as the comments to yesterday’s post on the new Windows Live Wave 3 betas showed.

First up was luisfelipe, who found an …

Windows Live Wave 3 beta urls show up

A couple of weeks ago we started noticing an interesting referrer popping up in the stats for some of our posts. Turns out Microsoft moved their Wave 3 services from the dogfood servers onto beta servers, and as a result …

LiveSide weekend catchup

As some of you may have noticed, our RSS feed has been a bit weird this past week, not matching the stories posted on the site. This is now fixed (fingers crossed), but means those lazy RSS readers like myself …

Windows Live Messenger – more new features expected

So now that everybody is using the leaked Wave 3 Milestone 1 build, (oops we can’t talk about that) and Microsoft employees are using the latest Milestone 2 daily builds, we thought it was time to just cut to …

Windows Live Writer expiry prompt hints at new applications to download in the next month

If you’re a blogger and have written a blog post today using the latest Windows Live Writer Technology Preview (Wave 3 Milestone 1), then you were probably greeted with this update prompt.

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This is the first time we’ve seen any …