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Xbox Companion available: can Xbox drive Windows Phone sales?

xbox companion iconAfter a few fits and starts, which probably wouldn’t have even been noticeable if it weren’t for a Major Nelson tweet promising a rollout schedule that Microsoft missed by only a few hours, the Xbox dashboard update should have …

Rumor: Microsoft to bring “beaming” file transfers across Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox in the future?

We picked up a wild rumor today which seemed quite possible with the technologies Microsoft has today – the ability to easily transfer files directly across your phone, PC/tablet, and the TV using near-field technologies. Here’s the tweet from @MS_Nerd

Microsoft demos Windows Store for Windows 8: confirms late February Windows 8 beta

This afternoon (pacific time), Microsoft took some of the wraps off the Windows 8 store, and although journalists and bloggers not at the event scrambled to get the news as it was happening (Thanks, @InaFried at AllThingsD, it may

Xbox 360 Dashboard update: the rollout timetable (update: delayed)

Microsoft is rolling out the new Xbox 360 dashboard update (and btw shouldn’t this update have some sort of a cool name, like Mango or Siri?) tomorrow, December 6th, and Larry Hyrb, or as he’s better known, “Major Nelson”, has …

Can Microsoft take over the living room with Xbox, Kinect, and Bing?

xbox-kinect-liveOn Tuesday, Microsoft will begin to roll out the next version of the Xbox experience, featuring a new dashboard that combines your living room TV with the Xbox 360.  With voice and motion control powered by Kinect, and search …

“Lost” your SkyDrive OneNote files on your Windows Phone? Here’s the workaround

Shortly after yesterday’s post on the new updates to SkyDrive on Inside Windows Live, reports started coming in about “lost” OneNote files when trying to access them from the Office Hub on Windows Phones.  According to a new blog post …

Office 365 upgraded with new features and new markets

Office 365Office 365 received a major update today since its release back in June this year. According to the official Office 365 blog, over 40% of the top 100 brands are now using Office 365 or related cloud productivity …

Twitter comes back to Windows Live Profile, but feed access still limited to Windows Phone only

A few more updates came as part of today’s Windows Live update (version 16.2). One of this includes Windows Live Profile, which received some clean-up to its Connected Services page. Services that you connected through Live Connect no longer shows …

Windows Live Service Status page gets an update, now tracking Live ID and Family Safety

As part of the latest SkyDrive update today, as we predicted earlier, the rest of Windows Live web services received an update too, up to Wave 5 M2 (version 16.2). As part of this update, Windows Live Service …

Questions and Requests: SkyDrive reminder

Last week I announced Liveside’s new campaign to pass on your questions and requests directly to Microsoft and we kicked it off by asking for your questions and requests for SkyDrive. I plan to collect up all the responses to …