Microsoft has just released version 1.01 of Windows Live Messenger for iPhone, and it’s available for download now from iTunes.  This new app brings Windows Live Messenger, Hotmail, Windows Live social networking and more to the iPhone and iPod …

We’ve been taking a little Twitter poll this weekend, asking our Twitter followers to reply to us @liveside with #NewHotmailHere or #NoHotmailYet, and the preliminary results aren’t too encouraging: 32 negatives with not a single positive response.

To be …

Bing is set to announce its Spring update next week at an event in Los Angeles, but we’re already getting tips from all over spotting new stuff. First up is a new mobile experience (at leas from Zune HDs, can …

There’s quite a lively discussion going on in our post on Hotmail and Exchange ActiveSync – we posted a tweet from Ryan Burk, a Microsoft employee, who said that syncing Hotmail with your smartphone wouldn’t be available til later.  However …

Wow, looks like everyone’s having fun trying to get Exchange ActiveSync to work, even though it’s not working for all of you.  Reading through the comments it looks like there are issues with Android, for one, and others are …

Angus Logan has his first post up on a new Windows Team blog, “Windows Live for Developers”.  Angus is the Senior Technical Product Manager for Messenger Connect (and before that, the same title for Windows Live Platform), which …

Hotmail Wave 4 has begun its worldwide rollout, right on schedule.  However this rollout is being accomplished by server cluster, and not by region or individual accounts, as Mike Shackwitz explains on this morning’s Inside Windows Live blog post:…

At E3, Microsoft took the lid off the Natal project today, with a new name, “Kinect”, and some details about what to expect in the coming months.  We won’t go into all the details on the new Xbox and Kinect …

The thing is, we were as invested in Live Mesh as anybody, probably more so.  We’ve been avid followers since back when it was only us and the hamsters and the gerbils.  In December of 2007 we told you to …

Yesterday, in order to promote the ability, rolled out last week, for you to be able to set your own background image on the www.google.com home page, Google turned on the feature internationally for a 24 hour period, according to …