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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, …

Live Writer Backup Released

Ok, so you got me, this is one of those shameless plugs posts. However, this is something that could benefit all you bloggers out there. Quite some time ago now (over two years!) I released my very first …

Microsoft looks to kill off WL Favourites – Skydrive becomes storage central

Its true, nobody is perfect. In fact during the May 22nd update to Skydrive, we missed the addition of Favourites support to Windows Live Skydrive (hey pp2 missed it until recently too!). Interestingly enough the team blog post didn’t …

Imagine Cup winners announced, Team SOAK takes home the gold!

Today marks the end of the 2008 Imagine Cup.  The winners were just announced at an awards ceremony at the famous Musée du Louvre in Paris.  I am happy to report that Team SOAK, which includes our good …

comScore posts January 2008 search share numbers, Yahoo takes a hit

 

comScore just posted their search share numbers for January 2008 and it’s bad news for Yahoo.  Yahoo took a 0.7% hit, while Google got a small 0.1% bump.  Windows Live remained the same as last month, so there is …

@live.com accounts available publicly on Tuesday

LiveSino is reporting that Microsoft will be opening up registration for @live.com email addresses this Tuesday.  LiveSino, of course, is our sister site in China that translates our posts into Chinese and also has exclusive content of their own.  A …

Windows Live Spaces takes aim at Facebook’s News Feed

Microsoft rolled out a killer feature that we haven’t talked about yet in their last Windows Live Spaces update.  They are calling it “Windows Live What’s New” and it acts as a direct competitor to Facebook’s News Feed.  …

Windows Live teams up with Sprint for Mobile Search

Microsoft is set to announce the next chapter in their partnership with Sprint tomorrow.  Customers will be able to use Windows Live Search to perform location based searches, utilizing the built in GPS capabilities of Sprint phones.  I can see …

Sinofsky shows LiveSide some love

 

It’s a pretty well known fact that Steven Sinofsky, SVP for Windows and Windows Live, has set a precedent of being tight-lipped at Windows Live when it comes to talking to bloggers.  Well, that’s why we were pleasantly …

Financial Analyst Meeting 2007: Windows Live Suite, Live ID, and Cloud Infrastructure

As you may or may not know, Microsoft’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting wrapped up a few days ago.  There were a few important points for Windows Live that were talked about, so let’s jump right into that.

Windows Live Suite