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Live Mesh: Next Update Announced

The Live Mesh Team just announced their next update, available later today, on their forum:

The Live Mesh team is pleased to announce the release of our next update, available later today. We are making Live Mesh available to

Microsoft Extends Award-Winning Automotive Platform With Services: Live Search For Devices Available Immediately

Microsoft Live Search in your car? Microsoft has announced the immediate availability of Live Search for Devices, as the first of many new services for its automotive platform

REDMOND, Wash. — July 28, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today announced

The Mojave Experiment

How much “hear say” influences people in their opinion has become painfully, or is it embarrassingly, clear during the Mojave Experiment. Vista was shown as the “next OS”,  codenamed “Mojave” to people who have never used Vista before. Afterwards they …

Virtual Earth ASP.NET control released

Angus and dev.live.com have just announced that the July 2008 refresh of the Windows Live Tools was released today and includes some updates and bug fixes to the existing controls and importantly the release of the much anticipated Virtual Earth ASP.NET …

Live QnA: About The Latest Updates To QnA

So Live Search QnA has updated, but what exactly changed? Let me recap the rather large QnA Team post:

  • You now get 1 QnA point for voting again
  • No more deduction of a point for abuse reports that

Windows Live Photo Gallery Will Soon Recognize Faces In Pictures

 Digital Inspiration unveils a little bit about the face recognition in the upcoming Windows Live Photo Gallery:

Imagine this. You connect a digital camera to your PC for transferring photos and the software is able to recognize family

Live QnA: Next Release On July 22nd PDT, Site Down For Maintenance In The Afternoon

Live Search QnA, yes it still exists and still in beta form. Beta means there is still room for improvement and as such there will be a new release on the 22nd. In this release you should see several …

Virtual Earth: July Imagery Release And New Lead For Australia

Virtual Earth has a new Lead for Australia, Peter Ulm.

Peter Ulm has been with Microsoft for over a decade, most recently as the strategic account manager for one of Microsoft Australia’s largest accounts. He previously worked in sales …

Live Mesh Infrastructure Update

Work is being done behind the scenes of Live Mesh, today they are rolling out an infrastructure update:

Live Mesh infrastructure update

We will be rolling out an update to Live Desktop today, July 21. There will be no update

Just Released: Windows Live For Windows Mobile

A new version of Windows Live for Windows Mobile has just been released:

Wait no more! The latest bits for Windows Live Client for your Windows Mobile are available for download. To get yours now, point your mobile browser