Our friend Dev Parikh of Hack MSN Spaces (congrats on the MVP award, Dev, well deserved!), along with Little Fish Big Pond, have put together a nice set of backgrounds for individual blog posts that you can download, add …

The latest search share numbers are in from Compete.com, showing no significant changes, although Live Search is trending slightly upward, and actually showed some gains in volume of searches.

MSN/Live continued the good fight in December and actually outpaced

Angus Logan, the Senior Technical Product Manager for Windows Live Platform, last year sent out some 30,000 emails.  If our inbox is any indication, he’s looking to beat that record by a large margin this year.  However, and …

The Office Live team has just announced an number of improvements coming soon to all three flavors of Office Live: Basic, Essentials, and Premium.  "The upgrade process began January 5th and will last four to six weeks", according to the …

Hey there’s a new posting on the Windows Live QnA blog!  Except for one post with just a picture of a heart in October, there hasn’t been a post since August of last year.  Anyway, The post introduces "new" …

<A style="FLOAT: right; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px" href="/blogs/main/WindowsLiveWriter/SendLiveSearchMapsinfotoGarminGPSthrough_123EC/nuvi780_2.jpg" mce_src="/blogs/main/WindowsLiveWriter/SendLiveSearchMapsinfotoGarminGPSthrough_123EC/nuvi780_thumb.jpg" mce_href="/blogs/main/WindowsLiveWriter/SendLiveSearchMapsinfotoGarminGPSthrough_123EC/nuvi780_2.jpg" align="right" >Among a number of partner announcements at CES, Garmin, Live Search Maps, and MSN Direct announced new functionality that allows Garmin GPS devices, including the new Garmin nüvi …

Microsoft announced today plans to acquire Norwegian enterprise search leader FAST for about $1.2 billion US dollars cash, or a 42% premium on the company’s current price on the Norwegian stock market.  FAST is a leader in the enterprise search …

We don’t cover Xbox Live enough here on LiveSide, but we’ve been following the news of some problems in accessing Xbox Live over the holidays.  In a nutshell, apparently Xbox Live couldn’t keep up with unprecedented traffic, and connections have …

Things at LiveSide have been a little quiet lately, as we enjoy the holiday season, and frankly enjoy a little break as Windows Live news has slowed until the new year.  News, and our snooping around it, will pick up …

Received a nice email today from Steven Lees, a member of the CSA Concept Development Team at Microsoft, announcing that Microsoft has placed FeedSync under the Open Specifications Promise.  According to Lees from his email:

"As I think I