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Microsoft releases MSN Sideguide to fund free wifi

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Recently Microsoft silently launched MSN Sideguide, a new sidebar that “enhances your browsing experience with useful and relevant information as you surf”. The sidebar can be docked at either side of the screen (multi-monitor users are out of luck

To our RSS readers, Thanks!

Today, for the first time, we broke the 5k barrier on our little Feedburner counter:

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Now this may not seem like a big thing, but hey we’re geeks, and we’ve been watching the numbers!  We’ve been flirting with 5,000 for …

Windows Live teams up with Sprint for Mobile Search

Microsoft is set to announce the next chapter in their partnership with Sprint tomorrow.  Customers will be able to use Windows Live Search to perform location based searches, utilizing the built in GPS capabilities of Sprint phones.  I can see …

New Look Live Search is live

Last week we told you about some changes coming to Live Search, including a new look.  Well as of tonite it’s live (you may have to set the live.com home page to “search only” if you have it personalized)…

New Skydrive domains hint at desktop synchronisation

The weekly domain name posts from ResourceShelf have become a useful source of information for Microsoft and Google bloggers. This week is no exception, with Windows Live Skydrive having almost 20 domains registered or transferred to Microsoft servers in the last …

Windows Live Wave 2 launch in November says Microsoft France

At a briefing given to French press yesterday about Microsoft’s calendar year so far, Laurent Delaporte VP for Microsoft France kindly gave the Windows Live Wave 2 launch as November 2007. This will include the following:

  • Software – Messenger 8.5,

Messenger Presence Feature – Coming Soon

MSN At Mix UK Danny Thorpe and Angus Logan gave us a first look at a new feature that’s coming soon, dubbed Messenger Presence. Users of the Web2Messenger service will already be familiar with the concept of this, as basically it …

Will Windows Live Photo Gallery allow publish to Flickr?

One of the nice features of the new Windows Live Photo Gallery beta is its ability to publish photos directly to Spaces.  However users have been asking for the ability to publish photos to other services (such as Flickr), much like …

Windows Live / MSN Messenger to force security upgrade

Anand, a Security PM for Windows Live Messenger, posted tonight on the Inside Windows Live Messenger blog that rolling out in the next few weeks, if you haven’t already upgraded your Messenger to at least 8.1 (the current version released …

Live Maps: Create a collection, help the team

Steve Lombardi posted today on the Virtual Earth / Live Maps blog with a request for help:

For our next release we have some pretty neat Collection enhancements coming and could use your help right now in preparation. Helping is