Congratulations to Ray Ozzie (who accepted the award onstage tonight in San Francisco) and all the Live Mesh team for winning TechCrunch.com’s Crunchies award for best technology innovation:

Live Mesh was up against Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect, Google Chrome, …

Hopefully you’ve been following the news from CES, as we’ve been stuck at work (or fast asleep in Europe and the UK, hating the 6:30pm keynote time).  Anyway let’s take a look at what was announced.

Windows Live

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In a post one commenter characterized as “Some guys are talking about pitching Microsoft on a crazy scheme”, Michael Arrington at TechCrunch says he’s hearing of a complicated deal, still early on, that would have a group of investors buy …

via CNET

Reuters is reporting that Verizon Communications Inc. has agreed to a mobile search deal with Microsoft, details to be announced by Steve Ballmer in his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on Wednesday evening.

Verizon CEO …

Lots of changes in mobile in the past year, unfortunately not many of them related to Microsoft.  Yes, Windows Live for Mobile offers some real advantages for Windows Mobile phones, but the iPhone turned the mobile world on its head.  …

While 2008 took a decided turn for the worse economically, it actually was a pretty good year for Windows Live and Microsoft’s live services.  While Microsoft didn’t succeed in acquiring Yahoo! or its search business, the early part of the …

Of all of Microsoft’s live services, Live Search could be far and away the most interesting story of 2009.  New leadership, increased pressure to perform, lingering questions about a Yahoo! search deal, the coming of age of new technologies, and …

Not sure how widespread (or valuable, for that matter) this is, but just happened to try a search using the upper-right Live Search bar in IE 8 beta 2, and was greeted with some familiar faces:

While clicking on the …

This week marked the unveiling of Windows Live Internet Services, news of a refreshed Windows Live Essentials beta coming soon, some new features (and some old ones) from Live Search, and lots of mobile news as well.  Let’s recap:

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Even though we’re not at PubCon, we’re loving Twitter Search, as it’s bringing us some great tidbits from the Live Search announcements from Satya Nadella’s keynote.  A number of new features are being rolled out, including the addition of …