In a press release issued this morning, Microsoft announced its plans to acquire French mobile music company Musiwave.  The company is a leading provider of mobile music entertainment services to operators and media companies.  According to the press release:…

Last week, the Translation team blog posted about an add-in for your website or blog that uses the Windows Live Translator. In their post they show you exactly how to use this add-in. First off go to the add-in …

Verizon Web Calling has powered the VOIP integration in Windows Live Messenger since the public beta of v8 early last year, though the service is at best is described as basic. However last week users of Web Calling received an …

Windows Live Custom Domains has today undergone its Wave 2 update that sees it renamed as Windows Live Admin Center, though the old url of domains.live.com still works. This name change reflects the wider array of features now offered by the service, …

Today sees the start of the public beta for perhaps the most long-awaited Windows Live service – Windows Live Calendar. Two years ago on November 1st 2005 Bill Gates first announced Windows Live, so it’s fitting that the launch of the public beta …

Back in September at MIX UK we got a first look at a Messenger presence feature. Today marks the release of this handy little addition to the Messenger family. But what does Windows Live Messenger IM Control actually do? Easiest …

Looks like nothing can stay quiet for long – a new installer featuring the final Windows Live Wave 2 programs is available for download thanks to Microsoft’s early preparations. While not much has changed in the applications themselves since the …

Microsoft just enabled the @live.xx signup! Go grab yours now! http://get.live.com/getlive/overview for the local domains (eg @live.co.uk) or use the following link for @live.com – @live.com signup.

So far the list of confirmed available aliases is:

Jacky Mok just posted a link to the system requirements for the soon to be released Windows Live Suite apps, and they include 64bit support, but only if you’re running Vista.  from Jacky’s blog post:

Platform

32 bits

64 bits

Windows Live Calendar made its first appearance last Friday evening (PST), was available for a while, but then access for new account sign ups was turned back off (if you logged in to Windows Live Calendar while it was available, …