This evening, for a little while, the Live Search News Site looked completely different from what we are used to. This is what we normally see:

We spotted it like this earlier:

Notice how it shows articles now instead …

What happens when you change the look, or some other aspect, of a site?  Does it increase traffic?  Are you getting results?  A new team at Windows Live, The Microsoft Experimentation Platform,  is developing an experimentation platform to make …

Next week, at the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, Microsoft is expected to unveil Live Mesh, a new product that will bring the first of Ray Ozzie’s services vision to light.  Live Mesh combines a …

Live Maps has returned for UK users. Going to http://maps.live.com/ in the UK now takes you to just that, and not MultiMap. Let us rejoice!

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We gave you word last night that the Live Maps to Multimaps.com debacle had been resolved, and now we have a bit more explanation, from the Live Maps / Virtual Earth blog:

But a couple of unfortunate bugs caused

It’s little over a month now since PhotoZoom got released. Matt Augustine let’s us know about the updates PhotoZoom got since then.

Where previously you had to upload your pictures (jpeg) one-by-one, if you didn’t already have them in

If there was any doubt that Microsoft is planning to launch the Live Mesh Tech Preview at Web 2.0 Expo in just under 2 weeks time, the recent flurry of press invitations to demo events indicates otherwise.

All guesses as …

Just checked on maps.live.com and noticed a bunch of new features, and checked with the Virtual Earth / Live Maps blog and sure enough the new release is now live.

Denver in 3D (you really have to try it out, …

One of the newly improved features of Live Maps is the traffic re-routing feature, called Clearflow, which can re-route Live Maps directions based on traffic information.  The new system, updated initially for 72 US cities, takes into account not …

Many UK Live Maps users this morning have found that when they go to http://maps.live.com/ they are being rather unceremoniously dumped on the doorstep of MultiMap. You might remember that Microsoft bought Multimap back in December, and now, for …