Yesterday Microsoft held a large Windows Phone event in New York where they unveiled a 6 story high Windows Phone and also announced a much anticipated app for Windows Phone, Spotify. Well good news as Spotify has just been made …

The latest rumor to surface surrounding Windows 8 was a mention on yesterday’s (episode #233) Windows Weekly, with Paul Thurrott, Mary Jo Foley, and Leo LaPorte, when Thurrott said he’s been hearing that a new Xbox, powered by …

While browsing Hotmail Calendar today, something caught our sharp eyes as we noticed some very subtle changes to the Windows Live header. But having seen this before in internal Windows Live testing sites, we immediately realised that the service had …

I recently went to a Hotmail briefing and as many of you know I asked you to send me questions that you want the Hotmail team to answer. Well I asked as many questions as I could (over 20) …

Yesterday whilst being shown the new, soon to be released features of Hotmail I was told about Microsoft’s strategy for updating the webmail service. The strategy previously has been to release updates in waves however that view has changed slightly …

Today I visited some of the Microsoft Hotmail team in London to be shown the new features that are coming soon to the webmail service. The briefing started with Microsoft talking about where Hotmail has come from and where it …

After launching in Canada, and revamping the US Zune Pass, Microsoft is apparently moving ahead with getting Zune Pass into more users hands (or Xboxes, or Windows Phones).  We haven’t been able to find anything official from Zune as of …

Last week we wrote about the buzz Dropbox has been getting lately, what with a $4 billion valuation on $250 million in new venture capital, and what that means for SkyDrive.  Today HTC has announced, via its Twitter account, …

Hello and first let me introduce myself, I am Michael Gillett. I’m a Computer Science student in the UK, I’ve been a reader of Liveside for a long time and for the past couple of years I have been blogging …

In an update to yesterday’s post reporting possible interest by Microsoft in a Yahoo acquisition, the Wall Street Journal today reports that rather than an outright purchase of the troubled company, Microsoft is in “advanced discussions” to act as …