With PDC, the Professional Developer’s Conference and Microsoft’s big coming out party for Software + Services coming in only three weeks, news is starting to filter out about what to expect.  Last week in London Steve Ballmer let loose that …

According to an email sent out tonight to users of MSN Direct Spot watches, which will not support the new Wave 3 version, Windows Live Messenger is set to be released on February 10, “2008” (sic).  The email gives the …

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, speaking at an IT conference in London, revealed that Microsoft will unveil a new operating system, which he dubbed “Windows Cloud”, at PDC at the end of this month.  According to a post at The Register…

Well we’re still waiting for the new Hotmail, but we really appreciate the tips and feedback we’ve been getting, and the comments.  Special thanks this time to one anonymous reader, who not only has the new Hotmail, but also a …

It all started with Live Search Club, the somewhat maligned program to reward users for playing games using Live Search (and somewhat skewing search share counts, causing a bit of a scramble by Compete.com and others).  Then last May …

This morning the Windows Live Hotmail Technical Support blog posted the following message, only to take it down again sometime later in the day:

We are aware that some Hotmail customers are experiencing an issue seeing their folders with the

Just as we suspected, once we posted on “where’s Hotmail”, we started getting reports of sightings.  Thanks to LiveSide reader Graeme (who is getting his website at www.bitsticks.com running, should be up soon) we have some screenshots:

And Graeme was …

Last week, after receiving a “tip” from Microsoft’s PR firm Waggener Edstrom, we posted on the coming rollout of a new version of Hotmail.  Our readers were quick to try and catch the new version in the wild, checking out …

Well, I’m excited anyway.  We’ve had a few small but quite annoying issues with our recent upgrade server move, and the one affecting our readers most has been the inability to upload avatars.  Well as of tonight that’s fixed :), …

Windows Live Hotmail will begin to roll out an update starting today.  The new release does away with the “full” and “classic” versions, and combines the two into a simpler, faster service.  Included in the new release:

• Enhanced address book,