At Advertising Week 2006 in New York, Microsoft is set to unveil a new unified global advertising initiative.  Under Digital Advertising Solutions, advertisers will be able to more easily reach customers by packaging Microsoft's products, including Xbox, MSN, Windows Live, …

Windows Live Gallery, the central hosting area for 3rd party development projects relating to Windows Live has just been updated.

New additions to the site include a section on SideShow, with a section on Windows Live Writer expected also …

Microsoft has joined with China Telecom, with 210 million phone subscribers and 80 million internet clients, to provide Windows Live Search powered services.  A new search engine, called "114" has appeared on China Telecom's partner website http://www.vnet.cn

"The service is still

The Windows Live  Invasion of the Robots contest has ended, but there’s still time to vote for your favorite RobotInvader.  One of the more interesting ones connects Messenger to your Media Center PC to remotely record programs, all from your …

Our guy Nick, Community Server MVP and all around good guy, has just added /mobile/ to our site.  Now when you sign in on a mobile device, you should be automatically redirected to a more mobile friendly version of …

Although bitter rivals in the past, Microsoft and Nokia are teaming up to bring Live Search to the mobile device.  This will add Microsoft to one of of many search providers for Nokia's Mobile Search platform since it launched…

Windows Live Expo has just announced a new update to the service, including integrated payment via PayPal, job listings via CareerBuilder, featured ads by AdMission – initially in the real estate and autos sections, better search, and tighter …

First it was Warhol becoming MSN Soapbox. Next up is Search Center, the latest program which surprisingly will be losing the "Live" prefix that is being given to nearly everything else coming out of Redmond this year. For now it is looking to be called Windows Search Preview, …

While we're waiting to get a peek at Soapbox (well more than the dancing butterfly, anyway), here's some Windows Live news:

• Danny Thorpe writes that the Windows Live Contacts Gadget is due for an update soon, one that's going to