Well it's nice to know that someone's listening, at least. The Spacecraft points to Gregg Phipps blog entry, a PM for Spaces, where he explains the necessity for the URL change, the steps they are taking to mitigate the …

The Outlook add-in for Live Local, which adds a location tab and some toolbar buttons to your Outlook calendar, is available for download at outlook.local.live.com. With it, you can plot locations and driving directions on a Live Local map, …

Moz Hussain, a product planner for Spaces, talks more about the numbers and how they relate to Spaces in a blog entry at Moz at Work. One interesting point is that Spaces is the most worldly of perhaps any …

Ooooh look some new toys just appeared on Local.Live.com. A new way to collect, save, and share pushpins and other info called Collections, including the ability to save Collections to Live Favorites, and a new Traffic map. Hey look even …

More details are emerging on the latest Windows Live offering, the unfortunately named Windows Live Search (for the desktop). As this search product will be built around Windows Vista and Office Sharepoint Server 2007, products not yet released to market, …

Just appearing is a new Windows Live Gadget blog, by James Lau. In typical "one name for many different things" Microsoft naming style, there are three different kinds of gadgets: Windows Live gadgets, that work on Live.com, Windows Vista Sidebar …

An interesting tidbit in this morning's Seattle PI, in a story on Pictometry, the company that does the "bird's eye view" photography for Windows Live Local.

Microsoft already has begun making images available free on a new map

Just getting caught up from a whirlwind few days. Yes we held a dinner at Twist, in Seattle's Belltown, last night. Since Chris and Harrison were in town for MSAS, we thought it would be fun to meet up with …

Amazon.com has dropped Google Search for Windows Live Search for A9 and Alexa, according to the Google Operating System blog. No official word out about this yet, but it seems to be true, as you can see:

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Some much needed discussion around Live.com, performance, usability, and focus is taking place around the net – started by a post from Rick Strahl he calls "Live.com – I don't get it". Ken Levy, Product Planner for Windows Live, picked …