Scott Lovegrove’s “Insert Spaces Emoticon” plugin to Live Writer is the latest in a steady stream of plugins for the Windows Live beta product. Mike Torres of Spaces talks about his favorite Live Writer plugins wlwplugins.com continues to …

It's the Labor Day Holiday here in the US, and everyone is pretty much gone for the three day weekend, but it gives us some time to catch up on some news.

As noted elsewhere, Windows Live Search has upgraded…

Last week, Chris talked about a new pair of Windows Live services called Essentials and Dashboard. Since then, we have investigated the Essentials service along with the Dashboard client and we're ready to share more along with, of course, screenshots. …

Following the recent Windows Live OneCare Family Safety Invites being sent out to Windows Live Butterflies and the appearing of Windows Live OneCare Family Safety on Connect we thought that this Beta would be resticted to only those who had …

"Microsoft Office Live will launch an Early Adopter phase for US Partners later this year giving participants access to the upcoming version of Office Live. This new version is based Windows SharePoint Services (version 3) offering increased functionality to customers

Thomas J. points to a number of new Gadgets for Spaces, including Hangman and Pong, a Mortgage rates watch, a Technorati Search Gadget, and a Gas Prices Gadget, among others.

And recently Dare pointed out problem with memory leaks…

Windows Live Qna is now in a public beta, available at qna.live.com. Betsy Aoki has the details over at the QnA team blog.

Disclaimer: USA only…

Hot off the Microsoft PR wagon is news that Verizon will be providing its high-speed internet subscribers with co-branded Windows Live services:

Verizon customers will have access to co-branded information and communications services, including a co-branded Live.com home page with

The MSN Alerts service has now been migrated over to Windows Live, and is available from http://alerts.live.com.

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