As we have mentioned, there is a new look for the next wave of Live products and services that we have seen with Messenger, Writer and Mail, mainly with the removal of the flair. Well, today Live Gallery gets the …

Just in case you missed it, the Live Earth concerts take place this weekend to highlight climate change. If you didn’t manage to get a ticket, you can watch the concerts online at http://liveearth.msn.com/ both during the performances and afterwards. …

Congrats to the Virtual Earth team for publishing 26 terabytes of updates, on time for their “July publish” (1 terabyte = 1024 gb).  That’s just a big impressive number, wow.

The new updates include a new feature, called “hill …

In an email sent to Windows Live OneCare testers, Microsoft confirmed the imminent start of the OneCare 2.0 beta program. Designated as a “pre-premiere”, OneCare 2.0 will not be available as a public beta initially.

New features we should be seeing …

Kommersant.com announced yesterday that MSN will be taking aim at yet another market.  This time, they are focused on Russia.  According to the article, the content for MSN Russia will be provided by Kommersant, Reuters, and the AP.  Geoff Sutton, …

Running Windows Vista? Noticed the Windows CardSpace applet in the Vista control panel but not sure what its for? That may soon change if Windows Live ID provides CardSpace integration.

Formerly called InfoCard, CardSpace integration with Windows Live was discussed back in March …

The Windows Live Folders beta opened up yesterday, and contrary to what we understood, was simply open to the first 5,000 users to get there, with a slight caveat of changing your locale to en-us.  That explains why many of …

Windows Live Folders and Windows Live Photo Gallery are set to begin limited managed betas, according to an announcement by Microsoft today.  Windows Live Folders, which we showed you when it briefly popped up back in May, is the …

Well we just got the email, and Windows Live Folders and Windows Live Photo Gallery are now available if you have been invited.  You should have received an invitation to “Windows Live Beta” a few weeks ago, and if you …

Brandon LeBlanc over at the Windows Vista Blog has been playing with Windows Live Photo Gallery, and has a nice post up on it. He describes some of the new features, extensions to the Photo Gallery in Vista:

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