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Xbox Live mobile gaming: coming to Android and iOS soon?

android-xboxIn early December, Microsoft released an Xbox Live app for iOS, along with an Xbox Companion app for Windows Phone, and now, according to a recent job posting on Microsoft Careers, they’re planning on bringing more Xbox Live …

Filling in our 2012 Microsoft calendar

screenshot_startScreen_webHope you had an enjoyable holiday season, as we did, and are ready to launch into what may be Microsoft’s most pivotal, and by far its riskiest year.  So much is at stake, and everything is hinging on the launch …

Facebook launches Messenger for Windows

Facebook today launched its own stand-alone Windows 7 only client for Facebook chat, Facebook Messenger for Windows (download link). After a bit of a flurry where the link was leaked and posted, apparently first by the Israeli blog

Happy Holidays from LiveSide!

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Posting will be light for the next week, as we enjoy the holidays (and the fact that Redmond is a ghost town), work on some new years wishlists, and get ready for what may be the most crucial year for …

SkyDrive simple, app-centric sharing (more complex than you think!)

ms-SkyDrive_h_rgbLast month SkyDrive made some basic changes to the way sharing is accomplished: allowing single files within a folder to be shared, allowing sharing to non-Live ID email addresses, and allowing more flexibility in organizing files and folders on SkyDrive.…

Microsoft’s last CES keynote will be a wrap up, “no significant news” says Engadget

Engadget reached out to Microsoft for reaction to the news this morning that this year’s CES would be its last, and received some interesting feedback from the company.  Although there has been speculation that Microsoft would deliver a Windows …

Microsoft pulls out of CES for 2013

ces-logo-08Ending a long run of CES keynotes, and confirming one of Mary Jo Foley’s “wild rumors”, Microsoft, through an Official Microsoft Blog post by Frank Shaw, announced today that this year’s keynote (and booth presence) will be its last. …

Questions and Requests: SkyDrive response

Microsoft has provided me with a response to some of the questions and requests people had for the SkyDrive team. As it turns out I didn’t exactly choose a great time to run this project for SkyDrive as we have …

Microsoft, Silver Lake partnership reworking its Yahoo! bid, says Reuters

silverlakeAccording to an article posted late last night on Reuters, a partnership of investors, including Microsoft and Silver Lake Partners, is reworking a bid for a minority stake in Yahoo!, which has been somewhat in limbo since it …

The new Hotmail is here. Questions? Ask #HotmailQnA on Twitter

Many of our readers noticed that they have been being updated to the New Hotmail, with “flags done right”, “schedule cleanup” and more, in the past 24 hours or so, and a post today on Inside Windows Live confirms that …