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New LifeCams announced; Photo Swap available for all LifeCams

LifeCam vx 7000

Microsoft today announces two new LifeCams, webcams built for use with Windows Live Messenger.  A desktop model, the VX 7000, pictured above, features:

a 2.0 megapixel sensor to deliver High Definition video (2.0 MP) and still photography (7.6 MP

Live Search 2.0 discussions continue

At the company meeting last week, the new Live Search 2.0 was demoed and has since received rave reviews from Microsoft employees (yes even mini). Sean Earp’s impresions were picked up by Scoble, with relevance still seeming to be the …

Sinofsky shows LiveSide some love

 

It’s a pretty well known fact that Steven Sinofsky, SVP for Windows and Windows Live, has set a precedent of being tight-lipped at Windows Live when it comes to talking to bloggers.  Well, that’s why we were pleasantly …

Notes on the Company Meeting

The Microsoft Company Meeting was held on Wednesday (Sept 5) in Seattle, and along with paper airplane throwing, BillG’s last company meeting, some stuff about busses, and the waving around of a phantom Zune, there was some interesting Windows Live …

LiveSide Stickers: Sharing the Love

I have really been having a lot of fun with this sticker giveaway thing, thanks everyone for participating, and remember you can send in a link to a picture and a note and we’ll put it up on our map.…

Microsoft holds Search PR event on September 26th to announce Search 2.0

Following on from the PR escapades of this week, it seems as though Microsoft are at it again, this time with Live Search. An invite only event called Searchification is taking place at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus on …

Windows Live Translator

Darren Straight has been snooping around some Windows Live Translator domain names, and today, for the first time, the Windows Live Translator beta site is live.  According to Darren, the following urls are now working:

We haven’t …

Weather Central implements Microsoft Virtual Earth

Weather Central a provider of state-of-the-art broadcast weather solutions, has today announced a strategic alliance with Microsoft. The alliance integrates worldwide aerial, satellite imagery and mapping technology provided by Microsoft Virtual Earth into Weather Central’s 3D interactive software applications …

Cleaner, Faster: First impressions of “Windows Live 2008”

Well it’s taken a while to get here, but it looks like Windows Live is becoming a better defined and somewhat unified set of services.  Of course there’s still a lot of work left to do, but today’s debut of …

64 Bit Systems And The New Live Installer: A Solution

It has been discovered since the launch of the Live Installer yesterday that there is an apparent bug that prevents it from being installed on 64 bit systems. Now the programs themselves will run on x64 systems, it’s the installer …