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Office Live Beta in more countries

office live beta logo.jpgThe Office Live Team blog points to a sign-up page to get on a waiting list for when Office Live becomes available in four new countries: France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom. No word on when the beta will …

Windows Live Storage: Live Drive, Sky Drive, SDrive, Project M?

Lots of buzz around a first peek at Google's GDrive plans, and speculation on the Windows Live "response" has been in the news as well.

A bit of clarification on the Windows Live plans, as we know them. The project …

Chris Jones to run Windows Live Experience Program Management

In one of a number of management moves at Microsoft recently, Chris Jones has a new title: Corporate Vice President, Windows Live Experience Program Management. Jones has most recently been responsible for engineering deliverables for the Windows Vista client, …

Creating CelebFavorites.com

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Some interesting bits are beginning to trickle in regarding Windows Live and developers. At trickybusiness, Richard "Tricky" Bassett blogs about creating celebfavorites.com, the demo Virtual Earth mashup that showed you some celebritie's favorite haunts. What's interesting about this …

Discover Windows Live Spaces

Spaces icon.gifThanks to Darren Straight who found this post by Satoshi, and a new web site – discoverspaces.live.com. The annotated screenshot provides a few clues about the new version, in addition to a cleaner, Windows Live looking UI. Looks like …

Monday Tidbits post

Just some bits here and there today. To start, as promised, K*spot posted again on the Kanoodle problem in Spaces, and said that there should be a fix in by the end of the week. Speaking of Spaces, Ed Oswald …

Some more on Search

Last week, ComScore released some search numbers that were pretty sobering for MSN and Windows Live. Google continues to not only lead but gain in the market, and while there has been lots of activity on the MSN side, it …

“Windows Live Spaces is coming!” says the Space Craft

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The latest from the blog of record for Spaces announces that Windows Live Spaces is coming soon. Included in the new release will be Friends Module, the new social networking tool, and Friends Explorer, a way to create new friendships. …

Latest Spaces URL change breaks sponsored links

The latest Spaces URL change, from spaces.msn.com/ to .spaces.msn.com, has caused sponsored links to break, as Kanoodle looks for the old URL and not the new one. According to Karen Luk of Spaces, MS is working with Kanoodle to get …

Windows Live (and LiveSide) in the news

WindowsLive.gifThis morning's Seattle Times had a feature article on Driving the Windows Live initiative in the Business and Technology section. Reporter Ben Romano provides an overview of Windows Live, talks about how the company has "struggled to clearly articulate Windows …