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Two Windows Phone 7 updates coming in early 2011

Rumours around the web are saying to watch out for two of the upcoming conferences – Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, and Mobile World Congress in February – for announcements on the first and second major update to Windows …

Windows 8 and Windows Live Wave 5 to offer cloud-based identity and roaming settings?

Windows 7 just had its first birthday, and Windows Live Wave 4 was fully released not long ago, but the Windows and Windows Live division at Microsoft had already started its planning stages for the upcoming Windows 8 and Windows …

FUSE Labs brings new projects – Spindex, Project Emporia, SocialGadgets, and Montage

FUSE Labs is best known for their Docs.com project bringing Office Web Apps to Facebook users, and for those readers who had been following, they also started up Kodu, a very simple-to-use game programming language, as well as Bing

A first look at Office 365

More than a month ago, Microsoft announced the new Office 365 – the cloud-based version of its Office, Exchange, SharePoint and Lync solutions, which is intended to replace the current BPOS, Office Live Small Business, and Live@EDU offerings. While most …

Windows Live FrameIt shutting down December 15

Now that Windows Live Wave 4 has been fully rolled out, it’s quite obvious that some services never made the cut with no mention of any updates whatsoever – one of this is Windows Live FrameIt. It appears that …

MSN China partners with Sina.com, resolves Spaces migration issue in China

MSN China and SINA PartnershipWhile Microsoft announced back in September that they have partnered with WordPress.com to migrate all Windows Live Spaces over, those users in mainland China missed out – as WordPress is inaccessible in mainland China due to government censorship. In fact, …

Windows Live Messenger coming to a TV near you

So you think that having Messenger on your PCs and Mobiles is not enough for you? Back in January this year, we reported that Microsoft is negotiating with TV manufacturers about delivering Windows Live services to internet-enabled TVs. Well here’s …

Docs.com now supports Facebook Groups

Previously, when you want to share your documents on Docs.com, you can only share them with individual friends, and if you wanted to share with a group, you had to select the group members one-by-one. Facebook recently updated their

Active links in Messenger 2009 temporarily turned off due to malicious worm

Microsoft made a post on the Inside Windows Live blog today alerting users that there is a malicious worm currently trying to spread itself through IM networks, including Windows Live Messenger 2009 (Wave 3). Here’s  an excerpt from the post:…

Windows Phone 7 supports USB tethering (Updated)

Well, back when Windows Phone 7 was months away from release, Brandon Watson, Director of Developer Experience for Windows Phone 7, confirmed with Paul Thurrott that data tethering will be available but it’ll be up to carriers to decide whether …