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Two new Windows Live services coming soon: Documents and Devices

Our friend Picturepan2 from LiveSino.net has discovered two new services coming soon to Windows Live Wave 4: Windows Live Documents and Windows Live Devices. Here’s a screenshot showing the two new services added to the header of an internal …

Sneak peek of what’s coming in Windows Live Movie Maker

Movie Maker Last month, the Windows Live Movie Maker team made a blog post with a status update on what’s been happening to Movie Maker. To give you a recap, in the post Mike Torres offered some glimpses of what to expect …

Office Live Workspace updated for Mac users

Office for mac logoThe Office Live Workspace team blog just announced two exciting news for Mac users using Microsoft Office and Office Live Workspace. Firstly, Microsoft Document Connection for Mac was just released as part of Office 2008 for Mac SP2 to access …

How large is your Hotmail storage size exactly?

As part of the new Wave 3 update, Windows Live Hotmail was announced back in 2008 to have “ever increasing storage” – according to the mailbox size at the end of each month. Some call it “unlimited storage”, but Microsoft …

Localised Bing background images arrives in Australia, Japan

Last week we reported that the full version of Bing will arrive in Australia, Canada, China, Japan and UK soon, today we see the beginning of this series of update. The Australian and Japanese version of Bing homepage had …

Bing Travel, Bing Community, and your Windows Live ID – why are they separate?

Bing! The much-hyped search engine Bing was debuted today worldwide and as a Windows Live (and anything Live or used to be Live-related) enthusiast, I’ve went and tested how well the search engine, I meant, decision engine works. We’ve heard …

Bing Search Bars are now everywhere!

Today when you visit any of the Windows Live Wave 3 properties (with the exception of Family Safety and Agents), you’d have noticed the search bar on the top have been replaced with a new orange magnifying glass icon …

Live Search Translator new feature: Auto-Detect your language

Translator logo It seems like Live Search Translator just got updated with a new feature – the ability to automatically detect the language you wish to translate!

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In the screenshot above, I simply typed “http://www.livesino.net” into the text box and Live Search …

Windows Live Alerts gets the Wave 3 look…finally!

Windows Live Alerts have finally gotten a facelift and joins the rest of the Windows Live family in getting the “Wave 3” look – making it one of the last Windows Live services to make the switch (Video Messages

Tips for adding Facebook Web Activity on your Windows Live Profile

FB Windows Live Profile was just recently updated with the ability to add 20 new Web Activities, and one of which includes Facebook. Like many people (including readers on LiveSide and Windows Live Wire’s team blog), I have had problems …