While Live Mesh is not nearly feature complete, not even in beta until later in the year, there are some features that would be really helpful, like knowing how far along a synch to the cloud has progressed.  Currently there …

Yahoo! has responded to the Microsoft announcement that it has withdrawn its bid and will not pursue a proxy takeover attempt:

SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 03, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Roy Bostock, Chairman of Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet

Microsoft just walked away from its proposed acquisition of Yahoo!, ending 3 months of speculation on what would ultimately happen.  While I have been generally supportive of the Yahoo! deal,  I was skeptical of the thought of a long protracted …

Microsoft has withdrawn its offer to acquire Yahoo!, according to a press released issued at 5pm PDT today.

Here is the full text of the letter from Steve Ballmer to Jerry Yang:

May 3, 2008

Mr. Jerry Yang
CEO and …

The Space Craft, blog of the Windows Live Spaces team, just announced a minor upgrade to Spaces: you can now include the Messenger IM control and SkyDrive files in the Custom HTML module using embed codes.  Some back end changes …

In this installment of our discussion with Steve Lombardi from Live Search Maps, Steve talks a little about street labels in Bird’s Eye Imagery, and shows us around Tours in 3D, how to add them to your collections, and how …

Ina Fried is reporting that Messenger 7 for Mac is now available for download.  According to the Mactopia website, the new Messenger for Mac is designed for use on either older PowerPC Macs, or the newer Intel ones:

Messenger

Update: Looks like qna.live.com is joining the party, with a new look, too, this one in keeping with the green and blue theme (thanks, AndyD):

We’re noticing some other changes, as well, although they seem to come and go.  See …

We spotted a new look Live Search homepage about 11 days ago, and now it looks like the new page is back, at least for the moment:

Right now going from the new page to any of the …

David Treadwell is the Corporate Vice President for the Windows Live Platform, and we caught up with him at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco to talk about Live Mesh and the Windows Live platform.  This interview was conducted …