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Conversational Questions Now Allowed On QnA

QnA was originally designed to provide quality answers to search engines, Live Search in particular, but the Community wants and needs more than informational questions. So based on feedback from the QnA Community, the team has decided to make it …

Tracking Wild Fires With Pitney Bowes And Virtual Earth

We already told you where you can report Storms and track Hurricanes with Virtual Earth, now you can also track fires (US)!

FireLocatorBetaPitney Bowes created The Fire Locator:

FireLocator is an application created by Pitney Bowes Advanced Concepts

Windows Live Spaces Wave 3 Update Promises Cleaner, Better Looking Space

WLSpacesJust like the other sites/services, Windows Live Spaces is also getting a Wave 3 overhaul. Can’t stay behind now can they? Over at The Spaces Team Blog, they already started to blog about the upcoming changes. Coming soon… …

WWT: Explore The Universe With WALL•E And Andrew Stanton

Microsoft Research teamed up with Disney•Pixar and created a virtual tour of the universe hosted by none other then……WALL•E!
WALL•E is assisted by award winning director Andrew Stanton, who narrates this tour.

“Using Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope, WALL•E …

New Mobile Search Release

Phil reports that the mobile search team has been working hard, getting ready for a new release of the browser service: http://m.live.com. This service works on every mobile phone that has a browser.

So what’s in this release?

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Windows Live Messenger, A Sneak Peek At The Update To Come

As announced in Windows Live Wave 3: our interview with Brian Hall in 2 parts, there’s a new Messenger beta (RC) coming up. Over at messengersays, Lonn posted a video showing off this new version:

[View:http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=c1b27998-9f2a-4795-8f87-c034ca04a963]

Yay, PhotoShare …

Microsoft Office Web Applications: Your Burning Questions Answered

We already told you Microsoft Office will be extended to the browser. There has been a lot of excitement about this new service, but Sarah from on10 found there’s also quite a bit of misinformation around it. Therefore she …

How’s The Weather?

Chris Pendleton reports that Weather Central has just launched a new beta community site called ReportStorms.com. The site utilizes Silverlight and you can report storms in your area, and/or look at what the weather is like (or was like) …

Sun Microsystems To Distribute MSN Toolbar As Part Of Java Runtime Environment To US Residents

Starting today every US resident who downloads Sun’s Java Runtime Environment with Internet Explorer will be offered MSN Toolbar. This Microsoft Silverlight powered toolbar delivers one click access to Live Search, news, entertainment, sports and more.

MSNToolbarIntro

From the …

Office Live Workspace Utilizes Silverlight For Multiple Document Uploading

Office Live Workspace got updated. More languages were added: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Czech, Turkish, Portuguese, and Greek. You can change your language with the language switcher at the bottom right of the page if you wish to do so. …