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Windows Live for Windows Mobile (G2) now available from Microsoft

Jason Landridge posted today that a link is available for the first time from Microsoft if you want to install Windows Live for Windows Mobile (known also as “G2”),  on your Windows Mobile 6 device.

Up until now, it depended …

Yahoo! responds to Ballmer, believes offer is too low

In response to a letter to the Yahoo! Board of Directors on Saturday, Jerry Yang and the Board responded this morning with a letter of their own, again rejecting the Microsoft offer as too low, although stating publicly for …

Perspectives: James Hamilton on containers, condos, and the cloud

When we introduced you to Windows Live Core (now Windows Live Platform Services) just over a year ago, we mentioned James Hamilton and his work on commoditizing server installations, in particular by using containers.  Well here we are a year …

New Compete.com search share numbers show surprising surge for Live Search

Compete.com released their version of March US search market share numbers on Friday, showing a surprising surge for Live Search, up nearly 4 percentage points from February (a notoriously slow, and short, month), and up .7% year over year.  …

The Gig’s up: MSFT to YHOO: 3 weeks or we come and get you

Where there’s smoke, there’s bound to be fire, and yesterday’s leaked warning shots across Jerry Yang’s bow resulted in a letter today from Steve Ballmer to Yahoo!, saying in effect: take the offer we have on the table, …

MSN to produce original programming for MSN, MSNBC, and Xbox Live

MediaWeek is reporting on the unveiling of “an ambitious slate of original programming created for its multiple web platforms, including the MSN portal, MSNBC.com and Xbox Live” before a group of ad agency and marketing types at a Digital Showcase …

Windows Live OneCare 2.5 enters public beta

OneCare OneCare, the anti-virus/tune-up/back-up all in one program, has just opened up a public beta of version 2.5 (current released version is 2.0.2500.22, on my machine, anyway).  Anyone can go to Microsoft Connect and sign up and try the new beta, …

Live Search for Mobile improvements announced at CTIA

ctia This morning in Las Vegas, at the CTIA Wireless 2008 convention, Microsoft President – Entertainment & Devices Division Robbie Bach is announcing a set of new features for Windows Live Search for Mobile, available soon if you have WLS …

What will Jerry Yang do when Microsoft buys Yahoo!?: 5 questions on the eve of the acquisition

Microsoft made a $44.6 billion offer to buy Yahoo! on February 1, 2008, and since then we’ve been waiting to see what happens next.  While nothing officially has been announced, there is speculation that the deal may be nearing its …

Task Market: a Microsoft Research Asia project

While we wait for Microsoft to buy Yahoo!, and Wave 3 to begin, and now that Mix08 news is out, there’s a little lull in Windows Live reporting.  That’s ok, though, it gives us some time to take a look …