Apparently a fairly widespread disruption in some/all LiveID and Live services has been occuring for a good part of the morning (GMT-8).  We don’t know more at this point except to say Messenger had issues signing in here, as did …

The Windows Mobile Developer Center has been renewed. First of all you’ll notice there are 4 big boxes delivering the latest articles per category:

Beside those boxes, on the top right, you’ll find “Getting Started with Windows Mobile”. There you …

At the start of the year there was some discussion around whether MSN Premium offered good value for money in light of all these new and free Windows Live services. While we still think its great if you want several ad …

Looks like Microsoft is ramping up the teasers for Mix08. Activewin just posted the text from a Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft Connect invitation email.

“Greetings from the Internet Explorer Team! We are nearing the launch of Windows Internet Explorer 8

We just posted on what we had noticed about an increase for SkyDrive storage to 5gb, and we’re pleasantly surprised that the SkyDrive team has just posted on their blog, announcing that indeed, SkyDrive is now at 5gb, that it’s …

Thanks to tipster (tips*at*liveside*dot*net) Liam, it looks like we’re about to see a significant upgrade to the online storage feature from Windows Live, SkyDrive, to 5gb free:

We’ve called for an increase in the storage capacity, if only to …

comScore just posted their search share numbers for January 2008 and it’s bad news for Yahoo.  Yahoo took a 0.7% hit, while Google got a small 0.1% bump.  Windows Live remained the same as last month, so there is …

New upgrade round, in two phases, coming up:

Phase 1. – For those who still aren’t using Windows Live Messenger 8.5 (Windows XP and Vista, optional upgrade): 

First, everyone running Windows XP or Windows Vista will get a prompt

We can already look at Earth with Virtual Earth, but what about the Sky? Microsoft doesn’t have anything for that yet. Yes, that’s right, YET! This might change on February 27th at the TED Conference in Monterey California:

On Live in Europe, Brian Groth reported students can get free software development tools:

Over on Channel 8, the video blog for students, Bill Gates just announced free software for students in a program called DreamSpark.

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