The last year and a half of working on LiveSide have been absolutely incredible.  I have met a lot of great people, seen a lot of cool things, and have had a blast doing it.  My experience with LiveSide has …

From our friend Picturepan2 comes news of a Windows Live photography contest in Asia, Project Shutter.  Windows Live users in Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, India, and Mainland China above the age of 21 are eligible to enter.  Prizes include HP Pavilion …

As of September 27, 2004, all new Windows Live Hotmail accounts, including Office Live and Custom Domains don’t have HTTP [WebDAV] support through Outlook and Outlook Express.  In fact, for those users who haven’t upgraded to Windows Vista, the …

Although Yahoo! and Google have already released an “optimized” version of Windows
Internet Explorer for their services, MSN has followed suit by releasing a version with it’s line of
products and services.  They include:

• Quick access to your MSN Content and Features

The Microsoft Office Outlook Connector beta that Andre Da Costa spotted last week is now available for download from the Microsoft Download Center. As announced at the Windows Live Hotmail launch, it is free for all users, though with no Genuine …

If you’re still having problems installing any of the new Windows Live betas (Mail, Messenger and Writer) and our quick/dirty fix didn’t work for you, you might want to try giving the more official fix a try. Posted by the Writer …

There’s a new project brewing in Microsoft Live Labs, Windows Live PhotoZoom.  This alpha project from Ray Ozzie’s Concept Development Team is Silverlight based and allows seamless zoom controls on consumer photos in a web based application. PhotoZoom also makes use of the Photosynth / Seadragon technology developed …

Do a search in Live.com or MSN.com, and as of today, if you type in an address you should get an inline interactive map as the first answer, according to the Virtual Earth / Live Maps blog.

(click to …

Farwan Thawar, a Product Manager for Live Search in Toronto, has posted a nice 3 part interview with Blake Irving, Corporate Vice President of Windows Live Platform.

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

In the interview, Irving talks about …

Michael Arrington from TechCrunch is reporting that Microsoft is at work on a new “very cool” search product at its Mountain View campus.

Microsoft has gathered a team of twenty or more “rock star” developers who’ve been tasked at building their