We’ve been taking a little Twitter poll this weekend, asking our Twitter followers to reply to us @liveside with #NewHotmailHere or #NoHotmailYet, and the preliminary results aren’t too encouraging: 32 negatives with not a single positive response.

To be …

Today on the Inside Windows Live team blog Omar Shahine (Principal Lead Program Manager for Windows Live) made a blog post about the new Windows Live Profile with particular emphasis to changes made to privacy control. We covered the new …

According to Francisco Martin Garcia, we’ll see the beta of Windows Live Essentials next Thursday/Friday (24/25 June). He also notes that the final is delayed by half a month.

Let’s hope he is right, we’ve waited long enough now!  …

David Dennis over on Windows Live Inside just announced that you can now access and manage your Windows Live Calendar from any web-enabled mobile phone.

You can browse upcoming events and see when you’re free so you can quickly add …

There’s quite a lively discussion going on in our post on Hotmail and Exchange ActiveSync – we posted a tweet from Ryan Burk, a Microsoft employee, who said that syncing Hotmail with your smartphone wouldn’t be available til later.  However …

Wow, looks like everyone’s having fun trying to get Exchange ActiveSync to work, even though it’s not working for all of you.  Reading through the comments it looks like there are issues with Android, for one, and others are …

Angus Logan has his first post up on a new Windows Team blog, “Windows Live for Developers”.  Angus is the Senior Technical Product Manager for Messenger Connect (and before that, the same title for Windows Live Platform), which …

Hotmail Wave 4 has begun its worldwide rollout, right on schedule.  However this rollout is being accomplished by server cluster, and not by region or individual accounts, as Mike Shackwitz explains on this morning’s Inside Windows Live blog post:…

According to a blog post at the official Brazilian Windows blog, Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 starts rolling out today to the 47 million Hotmail users worldwide. (Thanks for the tip Anderson C.!) Here’s what the translated version of …

At E3, Microsoft took the lid off the Natal project today, with a new name, “Kinect”, and some details about what to expect in the coming months.  We won’t go into all the details on the new Xbox and Kinect …