The Windows Live Developer Center has a new link to an MSDN Library document, "Windows Live ID Service", an overview of the upcoming replacement to Passport, Live ID. Learn about the high-level architecture, SOAP, RPC, WS Trust, and …

The Messenger Team is poised to release new features into the imminent Windows Live Messenger April refresh, including:

Windows Live Today: The Windows Live replacement of MSN Messenger's MSN Today pop up box when you sign in to Messenger.

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Microsoft plans to unveil a question-and-answer social-search tool in the coming months, says Justin Osmer, senior product manager for MSN. The feature will let users direct questions to a specific universe, such as a group of friends,

Ken Levy points to the seven Windows Live PowerPoint decks from last month's Mix 06, all found on the Mix '06 site, along with decks from other sessions. Ken says the on demand videos from the sessions will be …

Just a week after the Office Live team confirmed it had removed the wait list for the currently in beta service, Office Live signups have boomed. Statistics from IPWalk on the number of registered domains shows that more than 14,000 …

As Ken Levy mentioned earlier this week, the next beta build of Windows Live Messenger will see yet more extensiblity features being made available to 3rd party developers. Windows Live Messenger Add-Ins can be added to increase Messenger's functionality …

In Niall Kennedy's post, linked below, he describes Live.com as the new default home page for Windows Vista and IE7. MSN.com currently receives a huge amount of traffic as the default home page in Windows, and a shift away from …

Niall Kennedy formerly of Technorati, announced that he is joining Windows Live to "create a new product team around syndication technologies such as RSS and Atom." Here's how you'll see this implemented as an end user:

I'll be working closely

Ken Levy, Product Planner for the Windows Live Platform, posted on Monday a link to a new document on the Windows Live Developer Center, Business Opportunity for Building Applications with Windows Live and MSN Messenger . He talks about the …