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Silverlight On Your Nokia?

microsoft_silverlight_c Nokia announced today that you will soon be able to see Silverlight content on your Series60 (and earlier Series 40) Nokia mobile phones. The announcement comes just a day before Mix08 starts, and the press release states that:

Microsoft will

Windows Live WebMessenger launches into beta

Having been spotted in dogfood back in September, Windows Live WebMessenger today moves into beta at webmessenger.live.com. Replacing the aging MSN WebMessenger, the new Windows Live version sports more advanced features that bring it closer in line with …

Obligatory sappy marketing digital lifestyle post

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I kind of like the tune, though…

Microsoft adCenter Analytics (Project Gatineau) releases Beta 2

Microsoft’s analytics piece of their adCenter product has just received an update, and a quick run-through shows some new features, significantly improved performance, and the end of the $5 sign-up fee (although I’m not finding a link to the free …

Tafiti and Windows Live Quick Apps

As Kip already said in his article, Windows Live Platform Announcements: Cool new toys just in time for Mix, some new WL Quick Apps were added. In this article I want to highlight an updated WL Quick App: Tafiti

Office Live Workspace – first feature update goes live

Office Live Workspace launched last December and just got its first update, what’s new:

  • A new Activity pane to help you keep track of what’s happening in your workspaces and email notifications so you always know when the people

Microsoft to launch new MSN Toolbar beta – Powered by Silverlight

Later today we should see the reincarnation of MSN Toolbar in beta form (codename Salsa). Like many older MSN products, it migrated over to the new Windows Live brand early 2007, however as part of the gradual drift back, its been …

Windows Live service restored (again?, still?)

See, is this so hard?  The Email Support Space blog posts tonight, reporting that “nearly all customers are once again able to sign in”, with some specific information coming for customers who are still unable to login, “once you …

Windows Live Platform Announcements: Cool new toys just in time for Mix

With Mix08 less than a week away, details of what’s coming are slowly creeping out: details of the IE8 beta, Scott Guthrie has posted details about Silverlight 2.0. And now the Windows Live Platform team is announcing today …

Microsoft launches WorldWide Telescope into private alpha

It made Scoble cry, and soon it can make you cry too. The website for the latest Microsoft Research project, WorldWide Telescope, is now up at http://wwtelescope.com/. Here’s how Robert describes it:

“So, back to the World Wide Telescope.