Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer announced during his CES 2011 keynote a new experience called Avatar Kinect for the Xbox 360. Besides recognising body gestures using the Kinect technology, with Avatar Kinect your Xbox 360 can recognise facial expressions as well – …

Micorsoft just held a special press conference at 1pm PST, featuring Steven Sinofsky, President of the Windows and Windows Live division, giving us a preview of what’s to come in this evening’s keynote.

Perhaps the most interesting (and surprising) news …

The news is heating up from CES, and just posted over at Channel 9 is a special CES edition of Laura Foy’s Hot Apps, taking a look at new Xbox Live Apps for Window Phone 7:

Hot Apps for Windows …

The hosted email wars keep heating up as today Google has won a temporary injunction against the Department of the Interior, who Google accused of improperly awarding a contract to Microsoft to provide email services for its 88,000 Bureau of …

2011 could be a very significant year for Microsoft, the year Bing gives Google some serious competition, Windows Phone iterates and impresses to gain ground on the iPhone and Android, Microsoft finally makes a serious move into the connected TV …

Five years ago, on January 3rd, 2006, our good friend and current Microsoft Windows Live Evangelist Harrison Hoffman published the first of almost three thousand posts to date (this is post #2,892), welcoming you all to LiveSide.net. Now entering …

Just a quick update on the great missing email/folders caper over at Hotmail, a number of Facebook fans of the “Hotmail…wth” page are leaving comments that their emails and folders are back…except for emails from last 3 days.  We noticed …

On the first day of new year, Internet Explorer Product Marketing Director Roger Capriotti shares some exciting numbers about IE 9 and previous versions of IE. According to his post on the official blog, IE 9 Beta has been downloaded …

In the past few days, a number of Hotmail users have been complaining on WindowsLiveHelp.com about a rather disconcerting issue: their Hotmail accounts, some up to 10 years old, appear completely empty.  No emails, no folders, nothing, just what appears …

LiveSide received an email today from Product Manager (Evangelism) for Windows Live Harrison Hoffman today (gee that name sounds familiar!), wishing us, and by extension you, a happy holiday season.  Harrison lets us know that Windows Live will be at …