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Windows Live Suite announced – Update

The Windows Live Wire blog this morning published an entry from Chris Jones, Vice President, Windows Live Team, announcing the Windows Live suite.

Included in the suite, which will allow for a single installation of any or all of these …

Windows Live Installer to be released this week, says the NY Times

In an article appearing in the Sunday Sept 2 version of the online NY Times, with a publish date of Sept. 3, John Markoff of the NY Times reports that Microsoft is prepared to release it’s software “suite” this week

Local Boy Does Good

Our own Scott Lovegrove, or ScottIsaFool, was recognized on Friday by the Writer Zone, the blog of Windows Live Writer:

I wanted to send out a little love out to Scott Lovegrove (http://scottisafool.spaces.live.com/) on behalf of the

Spaces offers new photo features

The Space Craft posted tonight on some new features for Spaces photos (thanks, Brandon!):

High resolution photo upload,

highres

and photo printing by HP Snapfish.

snapfish

Now you can upload “hi resolution ” photos by selecting “optimize photos for …

A Silly Pledge for a Good Cause

As you might expect, I read a lot of blogs, and the other night I just happened to come across an entry in Steve Kafka’s blog on an unusual endeavor by some ‘Softies in Mountain View.  Apparently in the classic …

Windows Live Custom Domains hits Wave 2

The Windows Live Custom Domains team just launched version 2.0 featuring the new Wave 2 UI and a bunch of new features.

According to their team blog the highlights of this release are:

  •  E-Mail optional domains: Your can now register a

Windows Live Calendar and Events sightings, coming soon?

Our friend PicturePan2 just noticed something interesting over at home.live.com, newly added icons for Windows Live Calendar, and what we assume is Windows Live Events:

homedotlive Cal and Events

(you won’t see these unless you are signed out of home.live.com)

The new icons, …

Stickers: A Windows Live Exercise

 Liveside-Glass-07Ok so the stickers are on the way.  Only about $175 US  in postage, not too bad! 

We’ve used Windows Live Mail (and some of you have used Windows Live Hotmail), and Live Maps and Live Maps Collections, along …

Live ID with CardSpace support announced as in beta

Yes the Information Card support in Live ID v5 we’ve been raving about has now been announced. To recap, CardSpace, and the Information Cards it manages, allows you to log into a website without entering your password, reducing the risk …

LiveSide Stickers quick update

Just a quick note – I’ll have more this weekend.  The LiveSide Stickers are all on their way!

Some rough and quick numbers:

  • Total number of envelopes sent: just over 200
  • Total countries represented: 39
  • Postage: about $175 US

Live …