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Windows Live to play a role in Windows Home Server?

Bill Gates announced a new product named Windows Home Server at his CES keynote tonight.  The concept is that you can store all of the data throughout your house on your own personal server, accessible from anywhere in the world.  …

First WL News from CES: WL Developer Platform revamped

Mary Jo Foley reports from CES that several key changes have taken place in the Windows Live developers platform.  According to Scott Swanson, director of platform planning for WL, Windows Live API’s (application programming interfaces) will fall into two main categories; …

Who’s going to Vegas?

In probably the only time the vast majority of people going to Vegas aren’t going there to gamble, the International Consumer Electronics Show will be hosting approximately 150,000 people.  The show hasn’t even started and people are chatting about …

Google Calendar catches MSN’s – Or Where oh where is the Windows Live Calendar?

Another Hitwise graph showing more disappointment for MSN/Windows Live – this time for Calendar. Since its inception in April, Google Calendar has been steadily gaining market share, while both MSN and Yahoo have been losing theirs. 

Interestingly, while both MSN …

Windows Live @ CES

As lots of technology bloggers are going to CES, we thought we’d level the playing field a bit for those who aren’t. With journalists from the big press organisations in attendance, CES provides the perfect opportunity for Windows Live to …

LiveSide turns 1

One year ago today, LiveSide launched.  To celebrate our birthday, we are going to be having a few giveaways and contests over the next few days, but first I thought that I would share some interesting facts about LiveSide from …

WL OneCare 1.5 RTMs; Available End of January

Windows Live OneCare, which features support for 20 languages besides English, and is built to work on Vista, has been released to manufacturing, and will be available at the end of January, according to the OneCare team blog.  Current …

Nemo surfaces! Windows Live for TV in the wild

Here’s a little something to kick off our birthday celebration in style!  Back in October, we reported on Project Nemo, a Windows Live product for Media Center being developed behind the closed doors of Redmond.  Well now the little …

Windows Live OneCare winners

Here’s the list of winners of our recent Windows Live OneCare competition. If you could email me, I’ll sort you out with your subscription.

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Windows Live: Where it started, where we’ve been, and where we are now

Well, it’s that time of the year again.  It’s the time where everyone does their predictions for the new year and recap of the events of the year that is on its wayRay Ozzie at the Windows Live Announcement out.  Kip is going to be covering …