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Get.Live.com updated

Zack points today to the newly revamped Windows Live entry point: get.live.com – with an easier to navigate main page featuring the "orb", and categorizing the services.

Question is which is more impressive – that Windows Live services are being …

Live Mail M8 available to all

WLMail new icon.gif Ben Poon just posted over on the Windows Live Mail blog that the latest build (M8) is now available to all. It was originally released 2 weeks ago as part of a gradual roll out to the service's 9million users, …

Windows Live Expo gets charitable

We just got word that the Windows Live Expo team is working on a new charity project along with MercyCorps and the rock band, Presidents of the USA to raise money for global communities trying to recover from war.  The …

Orange, Messenger Sign in, and Ms. Dewey

News from around the Windows Live web:

Orange, the France-Telecom brand for its mobile and broadband commercial offerings, announced that they have joined forces with Microsoft and Windows Live to offer an instant messaging service that can be accessed from …

Amazon launches QnA rival

If you were in any doubt as to which way most of the big internet portals think search is going, Amazon has made it crystal clear; Askville, Amazon's new social search service, has launched into beta in competition with the likes …

Microsoft Signs New Book Search Deals

BetaNews is today reporting that Cornell University and Kirtas Technologies, a maker of scanners and digitization software have said that Tuesday they signed deals with Microsoft to support its Windows Live Book Search Project. Microsofts answer to Google Book Search, announced in …

Soapbox: Video interview and invites

On10 has a video interview with Rob Bennett from the MSN Soapbox Team, as well as 10,000 invites to the closed beta run from ideas.live.com. So if you haven't signed up yet, this is probably the easiest way to …

Scoble on Windows Live Search: Better than before

Robert Scoble says that Windows Live Search is a lot better than it used to be.  He’s generating some good discussion in the comments, too.  The points being made about Live Search; that it’s getting better, that getting Google …

Windows Live Mail desktop Refresh: Better late than never

The MoreThanMail team blog jumped the gun a little bit last night and announced the availability of their newest public build of Windows Live Mail desktop just a little bit before it was ready to go live.  Thankfully, the technical …

Windows Live OneCare 1.5 enters beta

Today the OneCare 1.5 beta program has started, with Microsoft's pc protection suite due for updates previously submitted during tester feedback. Key changes include:

  • Vista support (build 5500 or greater)
  • International versions (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea,