The Windows Live team only recently updated SkyDrive to Wave 5 with a full UI revamp, new features, and performance improvements, and it seems like they’re only just getting started with a series of updates to come. Just last week …

A few days ago we just told you about a potential official SkyDrive app might be coming for Windows Phone, and today we’ve received tips pointing to possible SkyDrive client apps being developed for other platforms too. LiveSide reader Nikhil …

Microsoft’s joint venture firm MSN China announced today that they had just inked a partnership with China’s social-networking site Renren.com, often referred to as the Facebook of China, to cooperate in areas of instant messaging and social networking using …

Although Windows Phone developers and others running pre release versions of Mango have had it for a while, Microsoft today made version 4.8 of the Zune Software available for download.  You can “Check for Updates” via Settings>General (we’re not seeing …

LiveSide reader DrWhoFan98 (thanks!) just pointed us to what appears to be a new feature in Hotmail Calendars (previously called Windows Live Calendars), “new reminders”:

The old Calendar options page is pretty basic:

but in the new one (after you’ve …

Remember how all of a sudden you couldn’t link Windows Live IDs anymore? How disappointed we were and in some cases how angry we got because of this possibility disappearing just like that? Well, all the feedback you gave, here …

In less than a month, Microsoft is hosting its BuildWindows conference, promising to pull back the curtains on Windows 8.  Up until then, the company has been unusually quiet, even for them, on a number of fronts, and we’ve assumed …

Back during the E3 expo this year, Microsoft announced a new Xbox 360 dashboard update will be coming soon, which greatly resembles the “Metro” UI on the Window Phone and Windows 8 Start screen. Today, a YouTube video leaked out …

In an interview with Forbes, Skype VP/GM of products and marketing Neil Stevens provided for the first time a bit more detail about how Skype will fit in with Microsoft once the 8.5 billion dollar acquisition deal is approved …

Charlie Kindel, known to most of us through Windows Home Server and later Windows Phone, is leaving the company after 21 years, to start his own company.  Apparently, as Ed Bott says, he’s “slashdotted himself” in the …