The “Corporate Blog of Microsoft Iberica” is reporting today that Windows Live Essentials will indeed be released today, September 30, and that 7 more countries are slated to receive Facebook Chat as part of their Windows Live Messenger 2011 experience.  …

Big news yesterday as the endgame for Spaces was finally revealed.  The handwriting has been on the wall for quite some time for Spaces, with anything of value (Photos, People, etc.) pulled out of Spaces quite some time ago, and …

Today in London, Microsoft announced plans to integrate MSN Music with Zune,  MSN Music will create links in its “music editorial”  to content on Zune.net.  The recently announced Zune Pass  in the UK, (£8.99/mo), which doesn’t include the 10 free …

Another announcement on the Inside Windows Live blog today, looks like this is going to be a banner week for Windows Live news.  A number of new features designed to improve security and rid Hotmail of malicious accounts were …

At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Microsoft’s Dharmesh Mehta just announced that Windows Live Spaces is going to be shut down.  In its place, Microsoft and Automattic have partnered to migrate some 30 million active bloggers on Spaces to WordPress.com.

We …

We’re getting right down to the wire with the launch of Windows Phone 7, with a launch announcement with all the trimmings expected in New York on October 11th, and news from multiple sources that WP7 will launch in Europe …

It’s been a busy week with all the Windows Live online services news and updates coming out (and possibly even more exciting news next week!), we’d almost forgotten about several Bing updates that came out this week. First off …

If you’ve been following along at home you know that LiveSide, with the help of IDesignYourLogo.com (who are on a bit of a hiatus recently), came up with a new logo earlier this year.  You also may remember that some …

With a Windows Phone 7 release just weeks away, we’ve been trying to keep up on the latest Windows Phone news, but the truth is you can only spread that peanut butter so thin, and a number of sites …

A Spanish-language financial focused website, elEconomista.es, is reporting today that Windows Phone 7, to be announced by Steve Ballmer on October 11th in New York, will go on sale in Spain on October 21st

Ten days later on October