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Changes to the Spaces header

Did you miss your Windows Live Navigation menu on Windows Live Spaces? Not anymore, the Team just posted the following:

Today we’re making a change to Spaces that is a direct result of the feedback you gave us here

Live Search Cashback, troubled but working on it…

Cashback After a Cashback Blackout on Black Friday, it is now facing problems with payouts. Back in December Live Search Cashback introduced Instant Cashback for eBay purchases, which promised immediate deposit of your cashback amount into your Paypal account …

Virtual Earth Imagery Release, January 2009

A really really really HUGE Virtual Earth imagery release this month, 100TB 37TB! And guess what? Paris, France also got Bird’s eye photos now, yay!

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Obliques (Bird’s Eye, International)

FranceParis, Nantes, St Quentin, Pau, Montauban, Lorient, Calais, …

Automatic “Add to Windows Live Calendar” from your Web Content

Ever wanted to offer your readers the possibility to add a specific event to their Windows Live Calendar? Evan of Windows Live Hotmail team tells you just how to do that.

All it takes for this to work

Changes to the QnA Code of Conduct

The Live QnA Code of Conduct has been updated so it’s easier to understand.

Summary of Changes

One of the first changes we made was to make it clear that the QnA Code of Conduct Supplement is just that

Managing your contacts with Windows Live People – Update being rolled out!

Managing your contacts is going to be easier as a new update is rolling out:

During the past year, we set out to build a few new things:

  • A unified contact list for all Windows Live users across all

Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate Now Available

Internet Explorer 8 has moved from beta to Release Candidate and is publically available for download today. Internet Explorer 8 RC1 is available in 25 languages for Windows Vista, XP, and Server only! Windows 7 users will get an updated …

Live Mesh: Mac Software Hotfix (0.9.3712.831)

We missed out on this one with all the other news (and playing about in Windows 7):

To all Live Mesh customers who have experienced crashes with the 0.9.3712.831 version of the Live Mesh for Mac software: A new

Windows Live Translator adds Polish

Windows Live Translator gained yet another language, Polish this time. This brings the total amount of languages to 14, namely; Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

WLTranslatorPolish IEaccelerator  …

Map Data Release – January, 2009

Chris Pendleton, who will be speaking at EUCI GIS 2.0 Conference, lets us know there is no expansion of map data this month. That doesn’t mean nothing happened.

For North America, Europe and Asia the road data has …