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10 Windows Live features you don’t yet use and should

With almost a full set of Windows Live services now out of beta, we thought we’d take a look at all those currently available and choose our top 10 features / mini-services that most people aren’t currently using and should be.

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Windows Live Gallery updated: most visited personalization site

Windows Live Gallery (http://gallery.live.com), according to Nielson the most visited personalization site on the internet with over 3.9 million unique users and over 27 million page views in March, is updating to provide more content and a new look.  …

New Soapbox and MSN Video launched

As we posted earlier, a new relaunched MSN Soapbox has been announced, and is available for trial for those who are in the Soapbox beta.  In addition, a new version of MSN Videos, at next.video.msn.com has launched as well, …

Soapbox Update

A post on the Soapbox Team Blog has alerted users that a change is coming as the Soapbox site goes down for a couple of hours whilst they make some changes to both the front end and the back end …

Windows Live Product Search: More Images, More Relevant!

The Windows Live Product Search Team has just released changes to Windows Live Product Search that boost customer-perceived relevance by increasing the number of query results with images to 88.6%. Previously, the number of query results with images was an

Live Search exec to step down on Friday

Mary Jo Foley is reporting, citing an internal memo, that Live Search General Manager Dane Glasgow is leaving Microsoft to “work for various nonprofits and spend more time with his family”.  Glasgow was one of a few direct reports …

(Hot)mail coming to Live.com again soon?

Live.com has offered, among many others, a gadget to put your Windows Live Mail on a Live.com page.  Problem is that the gadget hasn’t worked for quite some time, and now we have an explanation, and a reason for …

New storage service – Windows Live Folders

While news on the “Live Drive” front has been rather non-existant of late, there are some signs that may be about to change. A new service, Windows Live Folders beta, was recently listed on the Windows Live Feedback site, …

Playing with Spaces: send a message

So we’re playing with sending messages via Spaces, and its kinda cool!

To send a message, first (you must be signed in), hover over a profile pic somewhere in Spaces, and you’ll get an open window:

 Just click on

Lots of new stuff just added to Spaces

Some new stuff and some interesting numbers from Spaces: it’s now available in 51 countries in 25 languages, there have been 93 million spaces created since Spaces was released, and more than 111 million people a month use Spaces. More …