Picturepan2 just tipped us that Live Mesh seems to be open and available if you have a US Live ID.  I just tried one of my backup accounts and got right in.  We don’t see any announcement from the Live …

On Saturday we got the Yahoo! spin on things, and now this morning Carl Icahn fires back, in an open letter to Yahoo! shareholders.  I mentioned the heavy amount of spin in the Yahoo! press release, and Icahn noticed, too:…

Microsoft and Carl Icahn proposed a new offer to Yahoo! on Friday, and according to the Yahoo! press release (if you can believe Yahoo! press releases, and a college level course on “public relations spin” could be taught using only …

OK if you to have to go out and buy a new iPhone, that doesn’t mean you can’t keep up with the latest Windows Live news and information, and in style.

A few months ago we wanted to make it …

In case you missed it, Google released a new toy into beta today, called Lively.  In a nod to Software + Services, you download and install an app in Windows, and then log in to Lively.  Here’s a description …

First, of course, our apologies for another 18 hour outage.  Almost exactly two weeks ago, a problem at our web host involving a shared power supply to our server …

Our friend Picturepan2, who runs LiveSino.net (which does a LOT more than just translate our posts into Chinese), got to adding up all the storage you get with Windows Live, inspired by a post by another LiveSide member, Jamie …

This year’s Imagine Cup, a Microsoft sponsored student competition featuring student teams from around the world, is kicking off its finals in Paris, France.  Of course we’re rooting for our friend (and arch-rival) Long Zheng and his SOAK team …

Like the soap opera it has become, the workings behind a deal between Microsoft and Yahoo! just don’t ever seem to end.  This week we’ve seen a Yahoo! PowerPoint presentation that tries to place all the blame on the failed …

OneCare version 2.5, which went into public beta in early April, has just been released into production, and is available now by download at www.onecare.live.com.  While the newest build (2.5.2900.3) won’t show much if anything in the way …