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WL OneCare 1.5 RTMs; Available End of January

Windows Live OneCare, which features support for 20 languages besides English, and is built to work on Vista, has been released to manufacturing, and will be available at the end of January, according to the OneCare team blog.  Current …

Windows Live: The Road Ahead

It’s been a little over a year since the Windows Live initiative was announced, in November 2005, and a year since we started LiveSide.  Harrison has looked back on what the first year was like – lots of name changes, …

QnA 3rd (but far behind) in US Market Share: Hitwise

Hitwise Research Director Leann Prescott has posted the first real stats we’ve seen on question and answer site market share, and although Windows Live QnA is in third place, Yahoo! Answers is far ahead in the race with 96.1% US …

Will CES bring Windows Live News?

Robert McLaws is guessing that Windows Live Drive may be announced at CES in Las Vegas in January.  Basing his assumption on an ad in the CES 2007 guide, “Announcing a new way to share, protect, and store what …

Windows Live Mail desktop: New Build 8.0.1223

Although there doesn’t seem to be any official announcement as of yet, a new build of WLMd is available.  Sign up at ideas.live.com if you haven’t tried out the public beta, or if you’re signed up you can download it

OneView? Casino? Whatever it is, it’s not Windows Live

OK I have to keep my Brandons straight here – Brandon LeBlanc points to a post by Brandon Paddock, announcing that code name Casino has reverted from being a Windows Live product and is now Windows.

 In B. Paddock’s

NY Times: Will Berkowitz keep Windows Live?

Still no sign of Ray Ozzie, but Online Services Group Senior Vice President Steve Berkowitz has been popping up all over the place lately, and the bottom line seems to be a return to supporting MSN at the expense …

Custom Domains SDK Updated

A new version of the Custom Domains SDK is up at Microsoft.com downloads, version 1.2.  Here’s the overview:

The Windows Live Custom Domains SDK is intended for customers and partners who want to programmatically accomplish many of the administration tasks

MSN Soapbox: Messenger and Mobile integration coming soon

NewTeeVee, a new site for GigaOM run by Om Malik, posts a review of MSN Soapbox that offers some insights into where the beta service is heading.

First, according to the piece, Soapbox is slated to come out of …

Live.com Product Tour

Thanks to Brandon for pointing out the Live.com Product Tour, a marketing effort that includes some simple how to’s on setting up Live.com and some truly awful videos.

Live.com Product Search

Not big news, to be sure.  Expect something with a little …