Web Messenger, expected as part of the Wave 3 update to Windows Live Hotmail but only seen in fits and starts, appears to be making a comeback.  We spotted Web Messenger in December, only to discover that we were still …

The other day we posted a “tweet” from “livesearch”, on Kumo being “only a test name”.  We posted on it after seeing it retweeted numerous times, including by a number of people we know to work at Microsoft (but that’s …

Adding to the intrigue of what to call the falling further and further behind Microsoft search product, the Live Search team posted this tonight:

Here’s the list of Live Search twitter accounts, for those of you playing along …

We first heard the term last summer.  Mary Jo Foley posted on some possible new names for Live Search, including Kumo, which has led us on quite a little goose chase over the past months, one that doesn’t appear …

Mobile phone site Uberphones is reporting that Windows Mobile 6.5 is now available for Microsoft FTEs (full time equivalents), and both they and Neowin are taking that to mean that a Windows Mobile 6.5 release won’t be far behind, on …

Seattle Times reporter Ben Romano posts today on some more problems for Hotmail, this time apparently caused by “routine maintenance” overnight gone somewhat wrong.  Romano pointed to the Hotmail Online Solutions Center, and a rash of recent discussions about …

Microsoft’s fledgling Azure Services platform, a beta offering that offers cloud computing services, suffered a 22 hour outage this weekend.  Azure joins Amazon and Flexiscale along with Hotmail and Gmail as web services that have suffered major outages recently.  …

After a year of testing between offerings from Microsoft and Google, Australia’s Queensland University of Technology (QUT), has selected Microsoft’s Live@edu, according to a story in Australian IT.

Australia has become quite a battleground for hosted email services.  …

Way back last February, when Microsoft first made a public offer to buy Yahoo!, part of what they were after was the brand.  Microsoft executives have been almost happy to point out that they have a brand problem, especially, according …

A nice post over on the Hotmail blog has some simple instructions on how to add a Windows Live Calendar “badge” to your blog or website, using an iframe. 

(Not sure why our badge doesn’t show the month calendar, …