Piero Sierra, Group Program Manager for Windows Live messenger and Windows Live Mail, wrote a very lengthy article about how the team tries to make the Messenger (IM) experience more meaningful and natural.

Take for example the typing indicator, …

This week, Cryptome.org, a website that has taken to publishing “secret” guides for law enforcement agencies attempting to gain information held by internet companies such as Microsoft (with Hotmail, Live ID, etc.), Yahoo!, and others, was apparently served a DMCA …

Following our Part 1 coverage on LiveSino.net and cnBeta.com’s leak of new Windows Live Wave 4 screenshots, this time we’ll take a glimpse at the next version of Windows Live SkyDrive, Family Safety, Sync and Movie Maker. We’ll examine …

Looks like someone has been very busy taking/leaking screenshots, as even more of them appeared on cnBeta.com. Starting off with a screenshot of all the Windows Live apps containing the Ribbon:

In the above screenshot you see (from top …

It’s been a crazy weekend with Windows Live Wave 4 screenshots keeps coming. Kip gave us a glimpse in his previous post on Windows Live Photo Gallery Wave 4, and this post will go a bit further as to what …

Update: Our friend PicturePan2 has posted a couple of higher resolution screenshots over at LiveSino.net, go take a look.

You might remember back in December when Neowin posted pictures of the ribbon that will be appearing in Live Writer …

In case you missed it over the weekend, our LiveSide colleagues have been busy at work tracking down all the latest Wave 4 news and rumors, very busy in fact.  We reported on some new (apparently internal promotional) screenshots of …

Only one day later, another set of Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 screenshots has been leaked to the web, this time by Chinese website cnBeta.com. Aggregating all the screenshots that we’ve seen in the past few days, we’re guessing …

A new Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 screenshot seems to have surfaced on the web via a person named Zukona (thanks to MessengerAdictos.com), who claims that the screenshot is from Messenger Wave 4 Milestone 3. While we can’t be …

Back in December Patchou, creator of Messenger Plus! (Live), wrote a lengthy article about the history of Messenger Plus!. In that article he announced that he would take a step back (there’s only so much one man can …