As the blog post on Inside Windows Live said, the Hotmail rollout is really picking up steam!  Thanks to all of you who have taken the time to tweet #NewHotmailHere (or #NoHotmailYet) to @liveside.  Here’s a sampling …

We’ve been noticing a significant increase in the number of #NewHotmailHere tags on Twitter since Monday morning, as well as receiving many tips and comments from our readers about sightings of the new Hotmail. (Thanks to everyone who tipped us! …

This week it’s TechReady at Microsoft in Seattle, a semi-annual event (this is TechReady 11) where Microsoft product teams show off their new stuff internally, a kind of a top secret product fair.

Microsoft employee and blogger M3 Sweatt, (Chief …

For those of you lucky enough to have Hotmail Wave 4, apparently one of the new features – Conversation View, has been at least temporarily disabled.  MVP Vasudev tweeted about it:

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My eye just caught the following news item:

Jul 21, 2010 (DMEUROPE via COMTEX) — Microsoft Germany has announced a new exclusive service for Windows Live users enabling free mobile internet access. With immediate effect, members of the Windows

Brandon LeBlanc over at Inside Windows Live just posted on the availability of a new beta version of Microsoft Security Essentials, the free anti-malware program.  Some new features include:

Windows Firewall integration – During setup, Microsoft Security Essentials will

As we well know, Live Mesh is being replaced in Windows Live 2011 (Wave 4), by Live Sync.  We’ve been following Live Mesh, which was developed by a team headed by Ray Ozzie since well before it went public, and …

Thanks to tipster Greg, who has managed to sign up for a trial subscription to Zune Pass in the UK (although it doesn’t work yet), it looks like the “all you can eat” service may be coming soon to the …

If your Windows Live ID locale is set to the United States, and you’ve been testing out the new Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 beta, you should be seeing the first set of Messenger Badges available in your Messenger client …

Few months ago before Windows Live Wave 4 was announced, we were first to tell you that Windows Live Messenger (the client application) will support interoperability with Facebook Chat. Today according to a blog post on the official Inside …