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Windows Live Folders not final name for cloud storage service – Windows Live Skydrive instead?

Some things just seem to keep reappearing like a bad penny, and for Windows Live its undoubtedly the naming strategy. Since the Folders beta was expanded earlier this week, the login page has referenced the service as Windows Live Skydrive. …

Creating Custom Avatars: A Microsoft tool, and others

First, thanks for all the input on our recent upgrade.  We really appreciate it.  Nick has done a great job for us – if you use Community Server, or want to, his contact information is at the bottom of our …

Liveside Wave 3.1

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Yesterday we released a newly redesigned Liveside.net.  In the poll, about 50% of you voted that it needed work.

Well after a days worth of work, I’ve managed to make of the suggested themes into a CS 2007 theme.  …

LiveSide Wave 3.0 Is Here

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Chris noted that Wave 2 of the Windows Live products and services is fully underway with new updates coming in the future, well, I would like to announce the release of Wave 3 of Liveside.net.

As you should now be …

Windows Live QnA experiences problems

A heads up for those of you who use Windows Live QnA beta – apparently it’s experiencing some difficulties at the moment:

(from the QnA blog)

Hi folks,

The QnA site is currently encountering problems, as many of

Windows Live Folders beta expands tomorrow

Hot off the press is an email sent to some of those who signed up for the Windows Live Folders beta and don’t yet have access.

“Subject: Windows Live Folders — opening soon!

Thanks for signing up for the Windows

Financial Analyst Meeting 2007: Windows Live Suite, Live ID, and Cloud Infrastructure

As you may or may not know, Microsoft’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting wrapped up a few days ago.  There were a few important points for Windows Live that were talked about, so let’s jump right into that.

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Yes Hotmail was having a few problems

I love the blogging policy and speed of the Hotmail team.

“Just wanted to let everyone know we’re aware of the difficulties accessing Hotmail/Live Hotmail right now – you may get “Server is Temporarily Unavailable” when logging in. We’re working

Microsoft and Ask.com call for search privacy protection

Microsoft announced Sunday evening a “commitment to call on the industry to develop global privacy principles for data collection, use and protection related to searching and online advertising.”  According to the press release:

“Microsoft and Ask.com are proposing that leading

Spaces site unavailable after the upgrade? Here’s the workaround

Our new friend Belem, a Chinese Spaces MVP from Beijing, alerted us tonight to a workaround to an annoying little problem for a select few Spaces users, which has appeared after the “M2” update.  Apparently a number of users …