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Windows Live Sync update coming this week, update for Snow Leopard coming soon

Windows Live Sync The Windows Live Sync team blog posted the following announcement today:

Soon [This Thursday], when you sign in to Windows Live Sync on your computers running Windows, you’ll see that you need to go to the Sync website to install

Exclusive: First Look at Word Web App’s Editing View

Following on from yesterday’s post on OneNote Web App, we’ve got the chance to take a look the Editing View of the Word Web App, currently disabled in the recently released Office Web Apps technical preview. Here’s a screenshot …

Exclusive: First Look at the OneNote Web App Technical Preview

After tweaking around with the recently released Office Web Apps, we were able to dig up a few screenshots of the currently unavailable OneNote Web App:

OneNote Web App

OneNote Web App - Insert tab

OneNote Web App - View tab

(Note: The actual document contents in the screenshots above have been edited as

SkyDrive to become the center stage of Windows Live?

Windows Live SkyDrive With the recent series of updates to Windows Live’s web services (Calendar, Hotmail, Photos, SkyDrive and more), we’re seeing a tip of the iceberg of what’s to come with Windows Live Wave 4 (in fact, we …

A Closer Look at Office Web Apps in Windows Live

Office 2010 If you’ve been following the tech world lately, Office Web Apps Technical Preview is officially released to selected testers within Windows Live SkyDrive today. (And yes, that is the official name now, so much for trying to find a new

Windows Live Calendar updated, Events discontinued

Windows_Live_Calendar_logo Last week, on September 3, 2009, Windows Live Events was officially “retired” and users will no longer be able to create new events using this service, and users are encouraged to download all the files and photos associated with an …

An update for OpenID support in Windows Live ID

Windows Live ID Those who remember back in last year’s PDC 2008 Microsoft announced that they will officially support OpenID in their Windows Live ID service. Almost 10 months later of testing with the CTP, the Windows Live ID team has finally updated

Upgrade your Windows Live Messenger service

Windows Live Messenger From the Messenger team’s blog post today, Microsoft has announced that all users of Windows Live Messenger will be prompted to upgrade their client to the latest version (14.0.8089.726) in the following months, if not weeks, depending on your current …

Details on the latest Windows Live Mail update

Windows Live Mail The Windows Live Mail team has posted on their blog today about what was updated and fixed in the latest release (build number 14.0.8089.0726) that came along with the new Windows Live Movie Maker. Here’s a few of the …

Windows Live Family Safety updated with greater Windows integration

Along with the latest release of Windows Live Essentials yesterday which has been covered with news about the shiny new Windows Live Movie Maker final, what went unnoticed was also a feature update to Windows Live Family Safety. Today …