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Spaces goes WordPress (and so do we!)

wplogoBig news yesterday as the endgame for Spaces was finally revealed.  The handwriting has been on the wall for quite some time for Spaces, with anything of value (Photos, People, etc.) pulled out of Spaces quite some time ago, and …

MSN Music to integrate with Zune in the UK

zunelogoToday in London, Microsoft announced plans to integrate MSN Music with Zune,  MSN Music will create links in its “music editorial”  to content on Zune.net.  The recently announced Zune Pass  in the UK, (£8.99/mo), which doesn’t include the 10 free …

Hotmail adds new security features

Another announcement on the Inside Windows Live blog today, looks like this is going to be a banner week for Windows Live news.  A number of new features designed to improve security and rid Hotmail of malicious accounts were …

Microsoft to shut down Spaces, migrate 30 million to WordPress.com

At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Microsoft’s Dharmesh Mehta just announced that Windows Live Spaces is going to be shut down.  In its place, Microsoft and Automattic have partnered to migrate some 30 million active bloggers on Spaces to WordPress.com.

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Windows Live Movie Maker – Don’t mess with evil Tina

Remember the Double Rainbow video? Well, the Lanman Brothers are at it again! Their latest is called “Don’t mess with Evil Tina.” Automatically turn your videos, photos, and music into a great movie by using AutoMovie.

You can read …

Hey! Want some LiveSide stickers?

If you’ve been following along at home you know that LiveSide, with the help of IDesignYourLogo.com (who are on a bit of a hiatus recently), came up with a new logo earlier this year.  You also may remember that some

Hey, we have a friend! Welcome WMPowerUser.com!

kipdrodyWith a Windows Phone 7 release just weeks away, we’ve been trying to keep up on the latest Windows Phone news, but the truth is you can only spread that peanut butter so thin, and a number of sites …

Windows Live Web Services refreshed – Service Status, Devices, LinkedIn connected service now available!

So yesterday we saw Microsoft (temporarily) updated the Hotmail Calendar service with the new features like weather updates. It seems like that’s just the beginning of a new wave of updates coming to the Windows Live web services. If you …

Office Web Apps: 20 million strong, now with new features

Office Web Apps, only a little more than 100 days old, already has had 20 million users view, edit, and share Office documents on the web.

Today they’re releasing a number of new features, including embedded Excel and PowerPoint docs, …

More Hotmail updates coming up!

The still fairly new Hotmail has gotten a string of smaller updates. Some were planned, like push email, calendar, and contacts through Exchange ActiveSync, but others were the results of feedback received and acted on during the rollout: right-click …