Microsoft today announced its pricing for Office 2010, and a couple of new products may have some significant impact on Windows Live uptake with the addition of Office Web apps available directly from within Office.  We’ve known that Office Web …

Wednesday evening at 6:30pm Las Vegas time, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will take the stage at CES along with Entertainment and Services Division President Robbie Bach in what some are calling one of the most important keynotes for Microsoft in …

Well the holidays are over, and now the countdown to Wave 4 can really begin.  We were told at PDC that Windows Live would be refreshed “in the Mix timeframe”, which is mid-March, but we’d be surprised if we didn’t …

Bing has been quietly updating features since its last major update last month, with new looks for stock price and movie searches.  An announcement on the Bing blog pointed out the movie search feature:

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Microsoft has traditionally made big announcements about upcoming products and services at tech conferences, and while the breathless anticipation for CES isn’t quite what it used to be, Microsoft will have some significant announcements to make this spring.  Speculation is …

While we took a little time off for the holidays (and moved web hosts), we didn’t want to miss commenting on Inside Windows Live, the new Windows Live engineering blog over at the Windows Blog.  We decided to hold …

Pardon the dust, we’ve gone ahead and made some changes to our site and your experience.  For one thing, we’ve moved off our dedicated server to WebHost4Life, definitely a cost saving move, but we haven’t sacrificed much if anything …

Hard to believe that we’re wrapping up our 4th year of LiveSide.net (January 3rd, 2010 will mark the beginning of year 5), but just wanted to wish everyone the happiest of holidays, let you know we’re still here and plan …

Even in our MSN and Windows Live MVP days, we were never big forums posters, but we remember following a long simmering feud between the (mainly) MVPs and the Microsoft forums about NNTP access to the forums.  Basically, Microsoft wanted …

The Nielsen Company just released their November US Search share numbers, with Bing continuing a slow climb up the charts.  Nielsen last month changed their methodology, so comparisons before last month aren’t relevant, but here are the numbers for the …