While it isn’t out “officially” yet, Windows Live Calendar popped up for the first time on Friday evening and it’s been up steadily here ever since (but only on some accounts).  Some of our readers haven’t been able to access it at …

After what seems like ages, Windows Live Calendar is finally out there. Update: almost out there.  Windows Live Calendar was indeed up for a bit, for testing, and will be going live in a public beta VERY very …

Been a lot going on with Windows Live in the past few weeks, with Events, and new Live Search and Maps features, Linked IDs, and Gallery.  Unfortunately when we’re scrambling to keep up with the big stories (not that we’re …

In a presentation to the Georgia Institute of Technology’s IEEE Student Branch yesterday, Microsoft employee and Georgia Tech (edit: graduate former student – Jenks went to work for MS before graduating) Andrew Jenks had some surprises in store. “It wasn’t …

We’ve received some tips and comments about the Live Search Traffic gadget for Vista being removed from Windows Live Gallery when it updated last week, and indeed it is gone, along with the Live Search gadget.  In an email to Donavon West, …

While not strictly a Windows Live product, website analysis is an important tool that has been missing from Microsoft’s toolkit.  That changed today, as Microsoft’s new addition to its adCenter suite of advertiser and website owner tools, code named Gatineau, …

Hmm I seem to have created a bit of a stir over at MSN Groups.  When I posted this week on the Spaces worldwide numbers, I mentioned Windows Live Groups, and it was picked up at Managers Helping Managers, …

Live Search Maps Program Manager Steve Lombardi posted yesterday on 10 cool new features of the new “Gemini” release – we’ve covered some of them here at LiveSide in varying degrees, but there are at least a couple of new …

Microsoft SharedView, while not technically a Windows Live program, is available on www.get.live.com under “more betas”, and it seems to be falling in the cracks between Office and Windows Live.

SharedView allows you to collaborate on documents etc with up …

Hot on the heels of today’s Microsoft buys a share of Facebook announcement comes some speculation from Search Engine Land, that Live Search may soon make an appearance inside of Facebook.  The speculation, from Greg Sterling:

During this afternoon’s