Everyone seems to have an opinion about Microsoft’s blockbuster announcement (including me), but sometimes it’s difficult to sort through all the opinion to get at the facts.  Here’s a list of factual information, so far:

• Microsoft’s Press Release announcing the

Looks like the dns change has taken place, and you can now access LiveSide on your mobile device (using MoFuse, which takes our Feedburner rss feed and prepares it for your phone).  Now available at http://m.liveside.net

And of course …

Certainly there are some gems specific to Windows Live in the thought of a Yahoo! acquisition; Flickr, of course (and some Flickr users are none too happy about that), and the sheer numbers of eyeballs a combination of Mail …

Our friend Sunshine, a LiveSide member, posted about a new blog promoting Windows Live in Europe.  From her blog post:

Ever wanted to be kept more up to date with all things happening related to MSN and Windows Live in

One thing Community Server (or Windows Live) decidedly does not provide is any kind of usable mobile solution.  Our pal Nick Brown set us up a mobile page, and it works for what it is, a quick look at the …

While we catch up on our reading about the latest acquisition news, we put up a little poll for you to let us know what you think about the announcement that Microsoft has made a 44.6 Billion dollar offer to …

This news is hitting the internet pretty rapidly. Microsoft have offered to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion! This move is to try and bolster Microsoft’s position in the online services market in its continuing battle with Google. In some aspects, …

Interesting that yesterday Ben Romano from the Seattle Times published an article on what Microsoft perceives to be the future of internet advertising, a future that doesn’t necessarily value Google’s model of contextual advertising in search.  He spoke with …

To celebrate attaining 6,000 RSS readers (it changes everyday, but we’ve been steadily climbing over the past months), today we’re introducing a new page on LiveSide, the LiveSide Blog Sampler.  We read a lot of blogs in order to …

If  you took the time to check out our feed sampler you may have already noticed the news that Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect at Microsoft and the successor to Bill Gates when he steps down from daily duties this …