Paula Hane at Information Today writes about a new search technology that may soon be included in Windows Live Search – faceted search.  One of many search projects coming out of Microsoft Research Asia’s Search Technology Center, faceted search tries …

MSN Soapbox, which we wrote about on Sept. 7, the user uploaded feature now in internal beta as "Warhol" is set to be released into beta tomorrow (Tuesday), according to MS employee and Warhol tester Kurt Shintaku.

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Yes, the week has only just begun and already we have a new beta build to play with. The latest beta refresh of Mail Desktop (Build 1034) includes:

• Virus scanning of attachments
• Photo Emails can be sent via POP accounts
• RSS syncing –

Office Live, the web hosting, custom domain, and website creator, may soon be incorporating another feature: an online version of Microsoft Works, according to Business Week:

The company is working on plans to offer a free version hosted on

A new version of the Virtual Earth SDK is out, that's the very nicely done interactive SDK at dev.live.com.  New features include:

Add Custom Tiles:
     Generate map tiles using the MapCruncher from Microsoft Research to add custom overlays, in …

One of our additions to the new site is "The List" – our way of trying to collect together in one place all the information we publish about the Windows Live services. Currently, if you click through any of the product …

And you thought Microsoft was going out on a limb creating webcams?  Ha!

Actually, Melitta, which produces a number of coffee products, is going to introduce the first coffeemaker that tells us the most important thing in the morning: …

We have noticed that a lot of you have been having problems with logging into your accounts, so here is what you need to do to get started.

If you did not have an account on the old LiveSide

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Yesterday, Chris posted, about about some new Windows Live Hardware that has been announced.  Well, the commenters complained about the lack of photos of the products in the post (I'm looking directly at you TheViewMaster and himmel!), so here …

Now you can add maps and directions to your Outlook meeting requests, see