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@live.com accounts available publicly on Tuesday

LiveSino is reporting that Microsoft will be opening up registration for @live.com email addresses this Tuesday.  LiveSino, of course, is our sister site in China that translates our posts into Chinese and also has exclusive content of their own.  A …

Windows Live Wave 2 launches tomorrow night

In case you forgot that Windows Live Wave 2 is launching tomorrow night (for GMT through to PST – Wednesday morning for those ahead of GMT), Microsoft have put up a handy countdown clock to remind you.

From a client/application …

Windows Live Calendar first impressions: We do some “testing” of our own

While it isn’t out “officially” yet, Windows Live Calendar popped up for the first time on Friday evening and it’s been up steadily here ever since (but only on some accounts).  Some of our readers haven’t been able to access it at …

Windows Live Calendars Is Now Out! [Updated – almost there but not quite yet]

After what seems like ages, Windows Live Calendar is finally out there. Update: almost out there.  Windows Live Calendar was indeed up for a bit, for testing, and will be going live in a public beta VERY very …

Windows Live Calendar Beta – Get ready!

Update: Windows Live Calendar beta has now launched. Check it out at http://calendar.live.com or read our first review.

We haven’t talked about Windows Live Calendar for a while now, in fact our last post was about the start of the …

Catching up on some stuff we forgot to tell you about

Been a lot going on with Windows Live in the past few weeks, with Events, and new Live Search and Maps features, Linked IDs, and Gallery.  Unfortunately when we’re scrambling to keep up with the big stories (not that we’re …

Messenger 9, GTalk integration, Messenger API, new client for Mac OS X – news unveiled at Georgia Tech presentation (whew)

In a presentation to the Georgia Institute of Technology’s IEEE Student Branch yesterday, Microsoft employee and Georgia Tech (edit: graduate former student – Jenks went to work for MS before graduating) Andrew Jenks had some surprises in store. “It wasn’t …

Yes, the Live Search and Live Search Traffic gadgets are gone: security concerns cited

We’ve received some tips and comments about the Live Search Traffic gadget for Vista being removed from Windows Live Gallery when it updated last week, and indeed it is gone, along with the Live Search gadget.  In an email to Donavon West, …

adCenter Gatineau beta launches: Microsoft website analytics

While not strictly a Windows Live product, website analysis is an important tool that has been missing from Microsoft’s toolkit.  That changed today, as Microsoft’s new addition to its adCenter suite of advertiser and website owner tools, code named Gatineau, …

“10 Reasons to Love the New Live Search Maps” says Steve

Live Search Maps Program Manager Steve Lombardi posted yesterday on 10 cool new features of the new “Gemini” release – we’ve covered some of them here at LiveSide in varying degrees, but there are at least a couple of new …