Some new numbers published yesterday by Compete.com may be surprising to some: although popular sentiment is that “everyone uses Gmail”, the numbers don’t bear that out.  Here’s a pie chart of US internet traffic to web-based email clients for September …

“Just like an extra day of PDC, dedicated to Silverlight” is how Microsoft is billing a newly announced Silverlight Firestarter event complete with keynote by Microsoft Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie entitled “The Future of Silverlight Starts Now”;

In case …

ReadWriteWeb noticed what they termed quite a surprise today, that Windows Live Messenger is the second most used app in Facebook (after Farmville, of course) with some 9 million daily active users:

And as RWW points out, only about …

We’ve been telling you about full session SSL coming for Hotmail, and today an announcement on the Inside Windows Live blog makes it official: full session SSL is available for Hotmail, although it won’t work if you use a …

Tech•Ed Europe kicks off today, and you can watch the keynote live here.

The keynote in other time zones…

Last week we told you about certain limitations with the full-session SSL feature for Hotmail, and told you that it will be coming very soon. Well, today, thanks to a tip from John S., we were told that the new …

Xbox Kinect is now available in the US – and soon, around the world. At Windows Live they are very excited about this because it gives our more than 300 million Messenger users worldwide a new way to stay connected …

Microsoft announced today a new feature for Hotmail, called EASI ID, allowing you to set up your favorite email address to use Hotmail and get the benefits of features like Sweep, or sending 10GB of (50MB each) pictures in one …

LiveSide reader Alex alerted us to a problem with Windows Live Calendar that apparently started within the last 24 hours or so, where users have found all their Calendar appointments for most of the month of November and the early …

One thing we learned this week at PDC, Microsoft is All In, all over the place.  This year, they’ve been All In with Azure and the cloud..

“For the cloud, we’re all in,” said Ballmer during an address and