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Windows Live Help confirms Wave 3 features in Mail, Photo Gallery and Toolbar

Our friend Picturepan2 at LiveSino has again done some more investigative reporting in Windows Live Help revealing and confirming Wave 3 features in Mail, Photo Gallery and Toolbar. Here’s a summary of what’s discovered:

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FolderShare to live on as Windows Live Sync?

Apparently the shroud of secrecy that surrounds Windows Live and Wave 3 doesn’t extend to help files, as our friend Picturepan2 at LiveSino.net discovered as he was snooping around doing some investigative reporting.  While Microsoft has maintained that FolderShare …

My.Live.com – add your favorite Technology blog

Sunshine posted today on the improvements to My.Live.com, and we’d say they’ve done an excellent job!

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We highly recommend that you set up a My.Live.com page, and add your favorite (ahem) technology blog, and other blogs to your content.  …

Windows Live Translator now with Office integration

Windows Live Translator is coming to Office 2003 or 2007 as a Research pane option.  According to the MSR-MT Team Blog, the new feature will be coming out soon as an automatic update to Office:

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Kumo – A new name for Live Search?

Mary Jo Foley got a great tip last week concerning the possible Live Search rebrand we’ve talked about since this time last year. While the Codename Rome update still went ahead last September, the possible name change was put on hold. …

Deep Zoom Composer updated; now with photo stitching

deep-zoom-composer The Expression Blend and Design blog has announced an update to the Deep Zoom Composer, now available for download.  In addition to bug fixes and performance improvements, the Deep Zoom Composer will now upload to PhotoZoom.  Now you …

New WindowsLive.Com To Feature User Generated Content

Windows has had a new look at Microsoft.com, and today WindowsLive.com joins the family, with a new look and a new project centered on allowing users to feature their tips and stories on Windows Live to a vast Microsoft …

New Messenger library – and a word about Windows Live Dev (dev.live.com)

The latest tidbit on Windows Live Dev, a new version 2.0 of the Messenger library (you can get the messenger library from a .js url on the blog page).  Some worthwhile improvements to the library, of course, including …

New PDC sessions announced: Live Mesh, Live Platform, Virtual Earth

The session list published for PDC 08 just doubled, with a note that it will double again before the conference begins.  Of course most of the good stuff is still under wraps, but there are a few gems, even this …

Join the Angus Logan Fan Club

Angus Apparently our pal Angus spends so much time working and gets so little love that he’s been reduced to starting his own fan club.  He can’t even get any love from cool new Cuil.  (We’re even mean