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Upgrade your Windows Live Messenger service

Windows Live Messenger From the Messenger team’s blog post today, Microsoft has announced that all users of Windows Live Messenger will be prompted to upgrade their client to the latest version (14.0.8089.726) in the following months, if not weeks, depending on your current …

New version of Outlook Live for Windows Mobile available – for some

outlooklivelogo As part of the upcoming release of Exchange Server 2010, a new version of Outlook Live for Windows Mobile became available today.  This new Outlook Live, formerly Exchange Labs and code named Skyline (not the Outlook Live that preceded …

Yahoo! announces newly revamped services, we (finally) notice

yahoomail We missed commenting on this earlier in the week when it came out, but Yahoo! made an announcement regarding its newly revamped set of services, including Yahoo! Mail, Messenger, and search.  Featured among the changes are:

  • a new streamlined design

Details on the latest Windows Live Mail update

Windows Live Mail The Windows Live Mail team has posted on their blog today about what was updated and fixed in the latest release (build number 14.0.8089.0726) that came along with the new Windows Live Movie Maker. Here’s a few of the …

Live Framework CTP to shut down September 8th

liveframework Back in January, the Live Services Platform, along with Live Mesh, moved under the umbrella of a unified Windows Live organization, as part of Windows and Windows Live Engineering.  David Treadwell, the Corporate Vice President for the Live Services Platform …

Adding Photos To Hotmail Messages – A Temporary Change

Have you noticed that you can no longer add photos directly into the body of a Windows Live Hotmail message the way you used to? It’s been temporarily removed, here’s why:

During a recent review, we identified an incompatibility with

Photosynth Turns One Year Old

It’s been over a year since Photosynth.net launched. The team has written a massive article with the highlights of this past year. Now we’re not going to put them all here, for that you can read their article, …

Windows Live Family Safety updated with greater Windows integration

Along with the latest release of Windows Live Essentials yesterday which has been covered with news about the shiny new Windows Live Movie Maker final, what went unnoticed was also a feature update to Windows Live Family Safety. Today …

Now that’s a serious webcam: the LifeCam Cinema – 720p HD widescreen video

Yesterday Microsoft released Windows Live Movie Maker with HD support, and today they’re announcing a new webcam that may just be the perfect complement. The LifeCam Cinema, which will be available for pre-order from Amazon.com on August 24th, and available …

Playing with Bing APIs: Long Zheng’s latest project (cool and fun!)

Our good friend Long Zheng is at it again, after collecting the Bing home pages and taking on Microsoft over changes in the UAC in Windows 7.  This time he’s taken the Bing APIs, worked some JSON and …