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Office Web Apps adds new features

Office Web Apps is adding some new features today, making it easier to use OneNote and Excel, and a number of behind the scenes improvements to make it faster and more reliable.

First, in OneNote, you can now use ink …

Hey! News from Zune!! Music Pass coming to Canada, US changes

From Zune Insider comes some actual news about Zune, and “Zune Music” specifically:

We are excited to announce that Zune Music Marketplace and Zune Music Pass will roll out in Canada on October 3rd

First, Canadian music lovers will be …

Hotmail to save Messenger chat conversation history?

windows_live_hotmailToday two of our LiveSino readers report that their recent Windows Live Messenger chat history is showing up within Hotmail, somewhat similar to Google Talk chat history inside Gmail.

As one tipster TurnRight commented, once Windows Live Messenger chat …

Live ID in the age of Windows 8

Live IDToday, on the Windows 8 blog, Steven Sinofsky introduces Katie Frigon, Group Program Manager of something called the “You-Centered Experience Team”, who then takes us through the way Windows Live ID will be integrated into Windows 8.  Logging into …

A closer look at Windows Live Metro style apps on Windows 8: People, Messaging and Call

Microsoft gave us a first glimpse into the future of Windows Live during its BUILD conference, with Chris Jones, Corporate Vice President of Windows Live, demoing several Windows Live Metro style apps on Windows 8. Last week we took …

Windows Live for Windows 8 previewed; commenters ask “where’s Live Mesh, and what about Essentials?”

screenshot_startScreen_webYesterday, Corporate Vice President for Windows Live Engineering Chris Jones, in a post entitled “A preview of Windows Live for Windows 8”,  expanded a bit on new Windows Live apps “based on Metro principles” and “targeted at Windows …

Hotmail: Internet darling to industry underdog… and back? We’ll find out October 3rd

A few weeks ago we received an invitation to “forget everything you thought you knew about Hotmail” and to attend a special event on October 3rd to give Hotmail, “reinvented from the ground up”, a second look.  Well today, as …

Microsoft explains the DNS service outage of September 8

Cat5e CablesA couple of weeks ago, on September 8th, a number of Windows Live Services, including Hotmail and SkyDrive, became unreachable via their respective domain names for a period of from less than two hours to many hours, depending on how …

A closer look at Windows Live Metro style apps on Windows 8: Mail and Calendar

Last Tuesday Microsoft gave us a first glimpse into the future of Windows Live during its BUILD conference, with Chris Jones, Corporate Vice President of Windows Live, demoing several Windows Live Metro style apps on Windows 8. Unfortunately these …

Windows 8: a bold and risky venture

Arriving in Anaheim earlier this week, we simply weren’t quite prepared for what we heard in our day long “reviewer’s workshop” on Monday, in the keynotes, and in getting someh hands on time with Windows 8 running on a touch …