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Windows Live Developer Center announced

windowslivelogo.gifAs part of his presentation today at Mix '06, as expected, Brian Arbogast announced the Windows Live Developer Center. You can find it at http://msdn.com/live. We'll have more soon, as details from Mix filter out.

Windows Live “In the Mix”

windowslivelogo.gifMix '06 kicks off today (Monday March 20), and Windows Live looks to be very much "in the mix". Sanaz will be presenting on gadgets, and Scott Isaacs on AJAX, of course. Brad Adams will be presenting using Live …

Windows Live Safety Center

WLSafety icon.gifLast week, Windows Live Safety Center was updated, and the web-based virus scanning tool now is able to scan for registry changes, detect and remove spyware, scan someone elses computer from Windows Live Messenger and help them with their …

Ad testing on Office Live, WL Mail, and MSN Spaces to begin

windowslivelogo.gifAnother link to an MS press release, this one announcing the development of the Web's "Largest Advertising Network". 20 top brands, including Coca-Cola Brazil, JC Penney, and Monster Worldwide, will begin testing multiple ad formats on Windows Live Mail in …

Trevin “explains” federation

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Our favorite Windows Live ID guy, Trevin, posts on federation, a procedure where one set of credentials (read: username/password) on a "forest" is trusted by another "forest", without having to create a second set of credentials. What this means …

More Questions and Answers: Windows Live Answers

windowslivelogo.gifSharp eyed Spaces users (like Chris, below ;)) may have noticed a couple of new modules that appeared briefly, only to disappear (for now), "Questions Asked", and "Questions Answered". (They have disappeared as well from the Australian version of Spaces, …

Interview with Moz Hussain of Spaces

Spaces icon.gifI interviewed Moz Hussain, a Product Planner for Spaces, last week, talking about how Windows Live will change Spaces, how it is changing the way the Spaces team works, and what to expect from Spaces in the coming months. We …

Windows Live Mail Update to M5 Expected

WLMail icon.gifWindows Live Mail (the Kahuna beta) is expected to update to a new milestone, M5, this week, LiveSide has learned. Included in the new version, along with some performance improvements, are a new First-run experience for new users, a Contact …

A Public Service Announcement from Live.com

WLLive.com icon.gifThe Live.com team has thrown up a post on their blog to address the issues that Live.com has been having recently. The problem mainly revolved around various modules not rendering correctly.

The team has released an update which they believe …

WL Search cat crawls out of bag

windowslivelogo.gifWell when there's not much news to report, you dig around in the blogs. While we're waiting for new releases (WLMessenger, Mail, Live.com, etc – Windows Live March Madness?), A Japanese blogger has posted a screenshot and a link to …