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Windows Mobile Marketplace is live (for WM 6.5): new Windows Live for Windows Mobile

Our friend Picturepan2 is hard at work (even on his birthday!), and has screenshots of Windows Mobile Marketplace in action:

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The Marketplace is only available now for Windows Mobile 6.5 phones (one of which is already on sale), due to …

LiveSide and link spam

dirty_laundry Sorry to have to air our dirty laundry again, but this weekend has been an interesting one.  A month or two ago we came under an attack of bot generated new users, due to our automatic acceptance of any new …

Windows Live Wave 4 rumor mill heats up

We know that Windows Live Wave 4 is coming, at least in beta form, and soon.  We’ve already seen the first of the changes, in the form of some additions to Hotmail (zip downloads, web messenger buddy online status, …

Microsoft Security Essentials: some first impressions (and some FUD)

Microsoft Security Essentials Microsoft released its new free anti-malware product, Microsoft Security Essentials, this week, and the reviews are starting to roll in.  We’ve been using MSE since the first beta, and have found it to be unobtrusive, simple, and a refreshing alternative …

MSN takes Health Vault mainstream, releases “My Health Info”

Today MSN is debuting a US only (so far) beta of “My Health Info”, a new online service to help people manage their health information on the web.  The new service, along with a specialized swine flu information center, is …

BuddyFuse International Release: Enhance Windows Live Messenger With Google Talk, Twitter And Hyves

BuddyFuse_5F00_7F046E21[1] The first international version of BuddyFuse has been released.

BuddyFuse, created by Dutch Computer Science student Yousef El-Dardiry, Jeroen Bransen and friends, is a free extension for Windows Live Messenger, which seamlessly integrates chat and social networks into the …

Microsoft Security Essentials available for download

Yesterday Sunshine told you that MSE would be available today (September 29), and indeed, as of 8am or so Pacific Standard Time, MSE is ready for download

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The new version, 1.0.1611.0, installs easily over the latest beta version (1500), here, …

Microsoft Security Essentials Available For Download Tomorrow, Sept 29

7510.MSE_5F00_5F00_5F00_thumb_5F00_5F00_5F00_63FCB6FA1_5F00_thumb_5F00_5BDB965D[1] After reporting that Microsoft Security Essentials will be final in the coming weeks only a week ago, we can now tell you that it will be available tomorrow, September 29.

Microsoft Security Essentials, independently certified by West Coast Labs, is …

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