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Live Search 2.0 begins rollout

Apparently Microsoft can’t wait to get the new Live Search up and running before next week’s Searchification event, as the new look (and better results) search is beginning to show up in the wild.

Akram Hussein, Program Manager – Windows

Windows Live WebMessenger goes into dogfood

Beta is the new passé, and dogfood is where its at. Calendar and now WebMessenger are now both in dogfoods that are running on external urls (you have to be signed up to the internal dogfoods in order to …

New Look Live Search is live

Last week we told you about some changes coming to Live Search, including a new look.  Well as of tonite it’s live (you may have to set the live.com home page to “search only” if you have it personalized)…

New LifeCams announced; Photo Swap available for all LifeCams

LifeCam vx 7000

Microsoft today announces two new LifeCams, webcams built for use with Windows Live Messenger.  A desktop model, the VX 7000, pictured above, features:

a 2.0 megapixel sensor to deliver High Definition video (2.0 MP) and still photography (7.6 MP

Microsoft holds Search PR event on September 26th to announce Search 2.0

Following on from the PR escapades of this week, it seems as though Microsoft are at it again, this time with Live Search. An invite only event called Searchification is taking place at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus on …

Cleaner, Faster: First impressions of “Windows Live 2008”

Well it’s taken a while to get here, but it looks like Windows Live is becoming a better defined and somewhat unified set of services.  Of course there’s still a lot of work left to do, but today’s debut of …

Windows Live Suite announced – Update

The Windows Live Wire blog this morning published an entry from Chris Jones, Vice President, Windows Live Team, announcing the Windows Live suite.

Included in the suite, which will allow for a single installation of any or all of these …

Windows Live Installer to be released this week, says the NY Times

In an article appearing in the Sunday Sept 2 version of the online NY Times, with a publish date of Sept. 3, John Markoff of the NY Times reports that Microsoft is prepared to release it’s software “suite” this week

Stickers: A Windows Live Exercise

 Liveside-Glass-07Ok so the stickers are on the way.  Only about $175 US  in postage, not too bad! 

We’ve used Windows Live Mail (and some of you have used Windows Live Hotmail), and Live Maps and Live Maps Collections, along …

Microsoft launches Tafiti – Search and Silverlight experiment

Tafiti, an experimental demonstration site that combines Live Search with Silverlight has just been launched. It’s described as follows:

Tafiti, which means “do research” in Swahili, is an experimental search front-end from Microsoft, designed to help people use the