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Wave 4: SmartScreen for URLs

Those of you who are trying out the new Windows Live Essentials Beta, probably already came across some of these:
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But what are those? Never saw those before (no difference whether you use Internet Explorer or not)! What happened? …

Silverlight for Symbian RTM

Silverlight for Symbian is now generally available. This brings the Silverlight experience to the, according to the team’s blog post, 20+ million users of Nokia S60 5th edition Nokia 5800 XPressMusic and Nokia N97 devices. The Beta release

New SkyDrive Logo coming

imageLooks like there is a new SkyDrive logo coming. I say looks like, as the only place it is appearing now is on the the Windows Live Preview site, as noted by LiveSino.

The new logo follows the …

New Bing Map App: Tour De France 2010

imageAnother sporty Bing Map App got released yesterday, this time for cycling fans. Le Tour de France runs from Saturday July 3rd to Sunday July 25th 2010. The 97th Tour de France will be made up of 1 prologue and …

New Bing Map App: Imagine Cup 2010

imageThe Imagine Cup 2010 finalists are in. Open to students around the world, the Imagine Cup is a serious challenge that draws serious talent, and the competition is intense. The contest spans a year, beginning with local, regional and online …

Windows Live Messenger app for iPhone passes one million downloads!

Wow, lots of iPhone users are using Windows Live Messenger from their iPhone. In just 5 days over one million people downloaded the Windows Live Messenger app for iPhone that got released last week.

But not only iPhone users …

MSNbot to become Bingbot on Oct. 1st. 2010

On October 1st, 2010, the Bing web crawler will come out of beta. At that time the crawler will also be rebranded from msnbot to bingbot.

The updated user agent will be:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0 +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)

The HTTP header From …

Windows Live Essentials Beta: it’s here!

It’s here now, go go go!

Download Beta Now

Note: if you want to keep using Live Mesh (for now), do not install Live Sync as this will remove Live Mesh.

Warning: “Download Now” is Auto install and will install

Third IE9 Platform Preview Available

Yesterday the third IE9 Platform preview got released. This release includes support for the HTML5 <audio>, <video>, and <canvas> elements, the Web Open Font Format (WOFF), and many other new and improved capabilities.
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The platform preview installs side by side …

New Windows Live Developer Center tomorrow

It sure is going to be an exciting day tomorrow! Not only will the long awaited Wave 4 version of Windows Live Essentials go in to public beta but also set for release tomorrow is a new version of the …