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Windows Live Calendar and Events sightings, coming soon?

Our friend PicturePan2 just noticed something interesting over at home.live.com, newly added icons for Windows Live Calendar, and what we assume is Windows Live Events:

homedotlive Cal and Events

(you won’t see these unless you are signed out of home.live.com)

The new icons, …

Stickers: A Windows Live Exercise

 Liveside-Glass-07Ok so the stickers are on the way.  Only about $175 US  in postage, not too bad! 

We’ve used Windows Live Mail (and some of you have used Windows Live Hotmail), and Live Maps and Live Maps Collections, along …

LiveSide Stickers quick update

Just a quick note – I’ll have more this weekend.  The LiveSide Stickers are all on their way!

Some rough and quick numbers:

  • Total number of envelopes sent: just over 200
  • Total countries represented: 39
  • Postage: about $175 US

Live …

LiveSide Stickers Around the World!

We’re less than 48 hours into the LiveSide stickers giveaway, and we’re already at over 100 requests for stickers.  What’s even more amazing is where the requests have come from:

LiveSide Stickers (click on the picture to check out the Live Maps

LiveSide Stickers Giveaway

OK so you guys rock.  Thanks for all the help on getting LiveSide Wave 3.x going, and for all your input.  We love feedback, we love tips, and we really appreciate all the comments and suggestions.  Keep it …

Live ID sneaks in Info Card right under our noses

We’ve been telling you about Info Card for quite a while, but in all the excitement (and a few bugs to iron out) surrounding the new Live ID associations with LiveSide Community Server log in, it took us a minute …

More information (and some speculation) about Hotmail

With the announced release of Windows Live Hotmail still rolling out, a bit more information has come out in the form of some blog posts from Hotmail team members. 

First, Steve Kafka goes more in depth into cleaning up your

More Home.Live.com goodness

From the “woah, Microsoft is UNSTOPPABLE” category, Chris just noticed that the color of the (too large??) header turns colors with the changing time of the day.  Here in sunny Seattle we’re still in the light blue zone:

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(while we’re …

Creating Custom Avatars: A Microsoft tool, and others

First, thanks for all the input on our recent upgrade.  We really appreciate it.  Nick has done a great job for us – if you use Community Server, or want to, his contact information is at the bottom of our …

Windows Live QnA experiences problems

A heads up for those of you who use Windows Live QnA beta – apparently it’s experiencing some difficulties at the moment:

(from the QnA blog)

Hi folks,

The QnA site is currently encountering problems, as many of