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Wave 5 video icons spotted: web based video chat?

OK so we can’t wait till next month and Build/Windows, when hopefully the veil of secrecy that seems to be over everything from Silverlight and .Net to Windows and Windows Live is lifted.

Until then, we can speculate, of …

Logging in to Hotmail (with less spam!)

A couple of posts of interest on the Inside Windows Live blog this week, both involving Hotmail.

The first, one we held back on posting yesterday as it wasn’t working yet here (and still isn’t, fully), has to do with …

Nokia/Microsoft at Gamescom: just another party?

green logoYesterday, a bit of a buzz was created when the unwired showed off their invitation to a Nokia/Microsoft party at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, on August 17th, and everyone (us included!) hoped that maybe we’d be getting some news about …

Zune HD gets new games, apps

zunelogoWe have to admit, as much as we like our Windows Phone for games and music, we’re missing the ol’ Zune HD a bit (sold it to help pay for the fancy new smartphone!).  So it’s with a bit of …

Windows Phone ads land Brandon Foy a job at Microsoft

Remember back in February, when Brandon Foy’s Windows Phone ad concept video went viral?  For a quick refresher, here’s the video:

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We liked it a lot, and so did some folks at Windows Phone, who brought Brandon to …

Messenger Connect releases code samples to GitHub

Microsoft recently released a new version of Messenger Connect, allowing developers to integrate elements of Windows Live ID, Hotmail, Messenger, and SkyDrive into their own applications.  Today, in a post at Inside Windows Live, they’ve announced a series of code

Microsoft’s Live Location API: Is it a “massive privacy hole”?

microsoft_610x327A CNET post today by Declan McCullagh (reposted at CBS News Tech with a more incendiary title) reveals that Microsoft, through its Live Location API, apparently allows searching by MAC address for locations of devices.  McCullagh, in collaboration with …

Windows Live Photo Gallery now supports RAW image format

Microsoft recently released the Microsoft Camera Codec Pack for Windows 7 and Windows Vista, bringing native viewing of RAW format image files directly within Windows Explorer, as well as Windows Live Photo Gallery. If you don’t know what RAW format …

Avatar Kinect now available for Xbox 360

Microsoft showed off Avatar Kinect for Xbox 360 back in CES 2011 back in January this year, allowing players to interact with one another using their Xbox LIVE Avatars. The Kinect sensor will be able to recognise facial expressions – …

Linked Live IDs disabled

Remember our previous post about Windows live sign-in now set for use with one account? How we were wondering why Linked-IDs was not mentioned in the team’s post when telling how to best set up things in the new design? …