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Live Search in the labs: “Viveri” and “Ubiquity”

While Live Search hasn’t made much headway in the past year and hasn’t made a deal with Yahoo! to acquire their business, Microsoft seems to be more committed than ever to continue the uphill battle to make Live Search relevant.  …

Microsoft Advertising: “last click shouldn’t get all the credit”

Last year at Advance08 Microsoft announced both a new name for their advertising strategy – “Microsoft Advertising”, and the concept of “engagement mapping”.  The thought is that a consumer may look at numerous ads, websites, and brand impressions well before …

Reminder: Migration From MSN Calendar To Windows Live Calendar – Save Attachments Before March 1

We already mentioned in January that MSN Calendar users will be moved to the Windows Live Calendar service. This migration of existing MSN Calendar users to the Windows Live Calendar service will start in March. Windows Live Calendar does …

Introducing the new Windows Live Hotmail Mobile beta

Hotmail mobileYou may have noticed that the Windows Live Mobile Wave 3 upgrade previously did not include any updates to Hotmail. As part of the new Windows Live Hotmail upgrade, one thing that went unnoticed was that together with it …

Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant 6.5 beta for Windows 7

Back in May 2006, we posted an article telling you about what Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant was. Up until now this software only offered the ability to save multiple credentials (Windows Live IDs) on their machine as an Internet …

Live.com Images: pager coming soon?

Today’s little flurry over the Live.com snow leopard isn’t a big controversy, but it does underscore the fact that people are catching on to Live.com images as something cool.  Here in the US, we’ve had them since the Olympics, and …

Microsoft Equipt to be discontinued after April 30, 2009

Microsoft is going to discontinue their Software and Services subscription package Equipt. Equipt, which includes Office Home and Student 2007, OneCare, Office Live Workspaces and Windows Live Essentials, got launched July last year.

To help address the growing

Deep Zoom Composer – February 2009 Preview Released

Another update to the Deep Zoom Composer has just been released. This release only contains fixes to issues that were reported to the team. More information on these fixes can be found on the Expression Blend and Design team

Live Search cashback/eBay problems continue

snafu Live Search cashback apparently continues to be beset with problems, at least for a subset of customers who used the service over the holidays to purchase items on eBay.  We first reported problems some customers were having on February 4th, …

Snow Leopard: Twitterverse abuzz with latest Live Search image

To be honest, when I saw the latest Live Search home page image this morning, my only thought was “what a beautiful animal”.

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Well apparently Snow Leopard means a little something to more than just the Girl Scouts of Kyrgyzstan