Following on from our post last week regarding the MSN revamp project known as “The January Effect“, the first results from that are beginning to show. MSN Music and the other MSN Entertainment pages have been silently upgraded to …

For those of you living under a rock, Windows Vista has been officially released as of today, January 30th.  Bill Gates announced the launch of Vista at an event in New York City today, with the help of the …

Yes the beta has drawn to a close and Windows Live Messenger 8.1 is now available. Nice work by Dwergs in getting the English download link, no doubt he’ll be posting the other language builds shortly.

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Spaces launched a new build last week, notably with the ability to embed videos.  But there’s quite a bit new under the hood, too.  Jason Antonelli of the Spaces team posted on his blog about some of the new …

With the announcement of Windows Live in November 2005, and the transition of most existing services to the new brand in the first half of last year, the future of MSN appeared somewhat bleak. Since he was hired away from Ask.com …

In an article following the release of Microsoft’s First Quarter Earnings Report, CNET News.com reports that “Microsoft’s Live branding has been tremendously confusing and has hurt the company”.  According to the article:

“While Microsoft doesn’t break out the financial figures

Just in time for Valentine’s day; after all, what kind of presents do geeks give?  Windows Live OneCare is closing the beta, but for a limited time you can get a 3 PC 1-year subscription for only $19.95.  You don’t …

Well since Steve Kafka reads LiveSide, we wanted to let him know we read him, too!  In addition to the features listed on the Mail Call blog, Steve points out that the new Live Mail M9 includes better contacts …

Contrary to the belief that OneCare 1.5 will be available from 30th January, it is now available on the OneCare website for download. Choose to download the 90 day free trial, and its all yours. If you are running Windows …

If you are a current OneCare subscriber (or have an active free trial), expect to be upgraded to version 1.5 in the next few days, according to the OneCare blog.  Windows Live OneCare will be officially released on January …