Last week, after receiving a “tip” from Microsoft’s PR firm Waggener Edstrom, we posted on the coming rollout of a new version of Hotmail.  Our readers were quick to try and catch the new version in the wild, checking out …

VEWS was just released and after a few attempts myself to get it working I thought I would share a short video on the sign up process and adding the references to Visual Studio 2008.

Video after the break:…

Windows Live Hotmail will begin to roll out an update starting today.  The new release does away with the “full” and “classic” versions, and combines the two into a simpler, faster service.  Included in the new release:

• Enhanced address book,

With the Windows Live Wave 3 beta due to start today, we thought we’d provide our readers with a small headstart on the rest of the world. Here’s the download links for the new Wave 3 suite of applications, including …

You know what they say: “two heads are better than one”. The same is true for inquisitive users, as the comments to yesterday’s post on the new Windows Live Wave 3 betas showed.

First up was luisfelipe, who found an …

Ina Fried at CNET News is reporting that Microsoft and Research in Motion are set to announce a deal to “make it easier for BlackBerry users to reach Microsoft’s Live Search”.  The announcement, reported to be coming on Thursday, will …

A couple of weeks ago we started noticing an interesting referrer popping up in the stats for some of our posts. Turns out Microsoft moved their Wave 3 services from the dogfood servers onto beta servers, and as a result …

Good thing our friend Long Zheng is an accomplished lurker, as his annoying persistent hanging around the Live Mesh guys at Microsoft’s Tech Ed Australia paid off last week.  Long got what we think is the first public look at …

So now that everybody is using the leaked Wave 3 Milestone 1 build, (oops we can’t talk about that) and Microsoft employees are using the latest Milestone 2 daily builds, we thought it was time to just cut to …

If you’re a blogger and have written a blog post today using the latest Windows Live Writer Technology Preview (Wave 3 Milestone 1), then you were probably greeted with this update prompt.

This is the first time we’ve seen any …