With the announcement that Windows Live Wave 4 Essentials will require Windows Vista or Windows 7, (and with a little glitch in our system that made commenting via IE unavailable for a few days), we thought we would do a …

The new version of Windows Live, “Wave 4”, which should become available in beta form sometime in June, will not work in XP, and a number of you have commented here and on the Inside Windows Live blog about the …

It seems like Microsoft has confirmed the release dates for Windows Live Wave 4 web services to be in early June 2010 following an email sent to Microsoft Live@edu administrators about upcoming co-branding changes to Windows Live services. Here’s an …

Some new improvements to Docs, the FUSE Labs from Microsoft Research project that allows you to upload, share, and edit Microsoft Office documents on Facebook, has received a bit of an update.  From docs.com:

Docs Site Update!! Thank you

The second platform preview of the upcoming Internet Explorer 9 is now available, stiill with the Test Drive page, but with lots of new demos in the categories of Speed, HTML5, and Graphics

Looks like IE9 is moving up …

FYI:

Microsoft Windows Community – (Public Informational)
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 9:00AM – 10:00AM Pacific Time

Join the Event

Join an online live conversation with Microsoft Community Managers Matt Bernardy and Jake Grey on May 4^th, 2010

Lots of news just got released about Microsoft’s new KIN phones, including pricing.  Engadget has written up a long (an none too impressed) review of the new phones, and sums up the pricing in a nutshell:

The One and Two

The latest version of the Outlook Connector, which makes it easy (possible) to manage your Hotmail e-mail, calendar, and contacts from within Outlook, is now available for download.  A couple of blog posts have announced the new Connector today (May …

Few days ago we told you about what’s new in Messenger Wave 4, and one of the items listed was “simple privacy settings”. Picturepan2 from LiveSino.net has posted a special coverage on the new enhanced privacy controls experience in …

Our new friends at Wikikou.fr, a French Windows Live Messenger enthusiast site, have pointed us to what appears to be a definitive time frame for when we’ll see Windows Live Wave 4: on June 21.  Wikikou.fr points to …