Danny Thorpe of the Windows Live Platform team announced on his blog Momentary Gouts of Reason what he calls "a new kind of web component" the Windows Live Contacts Gadget.

What's it for? The contacts gadget is client-side JavaScript

Mary Jo Foley reveals that direct download links for Messenger, OneCare, Live Toolbar, and Desktop Mail are included in the welcome screen of Vista build 5506, rumored to be released to beta testers soon. Bink has a screenshot.

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Very quietly, some of the Windows Live services are being updated to include the new Windows Live UI. Yesterday, as JCXP noticed, Windows Live Favorites updated their UI and made some improvements, although as yet no word from the …

Lots and lots of buzz around Windows Live Writer, the little app from the Onfolio team headed by JJ Allaire. This one feels a little different than the Windows Live offerings up until now – first because it comes …

Brandon LeBlanc points to the newest build of Windows Live Mail desktop beta, version 8.0.0932, released tonight. This is a major cleanup and upgrade to Live Mail desktop, and it looks and feels very much improved. You can sign …

Spaces faced a bunch of problems when it launched last week, and many of them were fixed within a few hours or days. How much of a continuing problem are the bugs in Spaces though? A quick review of the …

We thought it might be fun to play around with the new friends feature on Windows Live Spaces, and so we've set up a site WindowsLiveSide for you to add to your friends list. Don't know exactly where we'll take …

Well nobody expected switching 120 million users over to Windows Live Spaces to go off without a hitch, did they? Things seem to have calmed down somewhat, leave a comment if you're still having problems. And now that Spaces seems …

With Spaces being released yesterday (not without a few glitches), we continue to take a look at the new features with Part 2 of the audio tour, this time with Jay Fluegel on Gadgets. Definitely a program in …

Moz Hussain, Group Program Manager for Spaces, and Jay Fluegel, Lead PM, Spaces, invited me to come to Redmond last Friday and get a little preview of a couple of the new aspects of Spaces; Social Networking and …