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Live.com – announcing “Ultimate” improvements?

Conspicuously missing from all the wave 2 upgrades and marketing for the new look Windows Live has been Live.com, the one time personalized home page of the future.  Once the golden child of Windows Live, touted as the …

Windows Live Community Builder: an easy way to use Windows Live Services

We just wrote about the Windows Live services we use here at LiveSide, and Windows Live is starting to make a concerted push for organizations to make use of the same services.  Harvey Sanchez, the Online Strategy Lead for Microsoft …

Microsoft launches OneCare 2.0 – or does it?

Microsoft announced in a press release on Wednessday night the release of OneCare 2.0, the latest version of the Anti-Virus/backup/computer maintenance offering from Windows Live.  Only now it’s Thursday night and http://onecare.live.com is still offering up version 1.6.  Clearly something …

Microsoft to purchase MusiWave for $50 Million

Microsoft is apparently following up on plans to purchase French mobile music company MusiWave from OpenWave, for $46 million in cash and assuming another $4 million in debt, according to an AP story on Yahoo Finance, via David Hunter …

Windows Live on LiveSide: what we use

As you may have noted, LiveSide recently added the Windows Live Translator tool (tell us what you think). 

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We actually use quite a list of Windows Live products at LiveSide, some we’ve been using for quite a while. …

Windows Live Platform: our interview with Angus Logan

Angus Logan is the Senior Technical Product Manager for Windows Live Platform, a title he only dusts off occasionally.  Usually he’s too busy building out content for Windows Live Quick Apps, or creating cool tools like the Messenger IM control, …

Microsoft plans to acquire MusiWave, French mobile music company

In a press release issued this morning, Microsoft announced its plans to acquire French mobile music company Musiwave.  The company is a leading provider of mobile music entertainment services to operators and media companies.  According to the press release:…

Windows Live Translator For Your Website

Last week, the Translation team blog posted about an add-in for your website or blog that uses the Windows Live Translator. In their post they show you exactly how to use this add-in. First off go to the add-in

Windows Live Suite apps 64bit support – only for Vista

Jacky Mok just posted a link to the system requirements for the soon to be released Windows Live Suite apps, and they include 64bit support, but only if you’re running Vista.  from Jacky’s blog post:

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Windows Live Calendar: still waiting

Windows Live Calendar made its first appearance last Friday evening (PST), was available for a while, but then access for new account sign ups was turned back off (if you logged in to Windows Live Calendar while it was available, …