When you log on to the Server you just set up (see LiveSide on Azure: Part One), you’re greeted by Server Manager, the front end to managing the roles and features on Windows Server. We had to turn on …

Let’s be honest: we had a few fits and starts setting up LiveSide on Azure (including just today, when having IPv6 enabled on the server apparently caused some DNS problems, sorry about that), but after some trial and …

One of the things we’re going to try with our new look LiveSide is to be able to point you to interesting conversations around the web, either by linking or by Twitter. Today, Paul Thurrott provides some interesting commentary on …

This weekend, we completed a move from a dedicated Windows Server 2008 “real” machine to the Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtual Machine running on Azure, rebuilding our WordPress installation and reworking our theme at the same time. We won’t get …

Working through the punchlist: added Pinned Site and Snap View for Windows 8 tweaks, try them out 🙂 http://t.co/bCVuRmf53t

— LiveSide (@liveside) December 29, 2013

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As Neowin pointed out yesterday, Microsoft has recently applied for a number of trademarks, all centered around “Mod”. Microsoft Mod, Windows Mod, Mod, and Office Mod and Microsoft Office Mod, with trademark applications for computer operating systems, computer software, …

Next week we’ll begin our 8th year as LiveSide.net.  It’s been an interesting journey, and while the landscape has changed considerably since we started, we’re still excited about Microsoft’s consumer services, and we’re excited to be back for another year.  …

It’s Friday night here in Seattle, the snow has melted, and to be honest, not much is going on in the tech news world as most everyone is on holiday break. That didn’t stop the folks at Windows Phone from …

While we may not be getting a new CEO for Christmas (Microsoft Board of Directors member John Thompson made that clear yesterday in a blog post on the Official Microsoft blog), Microsoft still has plenty of presents just in time …

Microsoft officially announced the dates and venue for its quasi annual developer’s conference, Build, to occur from April 2-4 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center (yesterday, Tom Warren at The Verge caught an early peek at a web page promoting the …