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A Launch without actual launch…

Yesterday was the Silverlight 4 Launch. Launch, where are the bits? I don’t see them! That’s right, there aren’t any until tomorrow, April 15th. Bit strange no, a launch without the actual product…

Anyways, nothing we can do about …

Windows Azure Platform available in 41 Countries

The following 20 countries will gain access to the Microsoft Windows Azure platform this week in the mentioned currencies:

  • Australia $ AUD
  • Brazil $ USD
  • Chile $ USD
  • Colombia $ USD
  • Costa Rica $ USD
  • Cyprus € EUR
  • Czech Republic

Microsoft Introduces Kin Phones

Microsoft’s two Project Pink phones, formerly known only by their codenames – “turtle” and “pure” respectively, have been formally unveiled.  The
Kin One features a 5.0 megapixel camera with flash, sliding
keyboard, 2.6 inch capacitive touchscreen, and 4gb of onboard …

What’s New feed updates are now in Windows Live Wave 4 style

Today I was just coming across my friend’s Windows Live Profile page when I’ve noticed something different with the way the What’s New feed updates are written. After checking LiveSide’s old Wave 3 screenshots for Windows Live Profile, I …

Full set of revamped Windows Live Wave 4 default emoticons – now with 25 brand new emoticons!

Many of you have probably seen the new Windows Live Wave 4 emoticons – either through the leaked M2 build of Essentials, or from one of the screenshots we posted a while ago (here, here and here

Live.com is now…Windows Live Home

Thanks to a tip from our reader Matt, if you visit www.live.com today, you will no longer be redirected to Bing.com, but instead you’ll be taken directly to Windows Live Home, with the following message for those who still …

Spammers abuse automatic vacation reply, feature temporarily off

There’s been a lot of posts about the work being done on spam prevention lately on Inside Windows Live, and now the Hotmail Team found that spammers are abusing Hotmail’s automatic vacation reply feature. To prevent spam they’ve …

A first look at Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 with Office Web Apps integration

Just a week ago we told you that Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 will have Office Web Apps integrated right inside the web service. Today Picturepan2 from LiveSino.net was able to get hold of a few screenshots of the latest …

Email is your online Identity, how is Hotmail run?

Email is very important, online you can’t go without it. As Dick Craddock, one of the Hotmail engineering team leads, says: “Email is your online identity.”

Hotmail has lots of users. There’s over a billion inboxes that generate over 2 …

Windows Live Calendar for Mobile coming in Wave 4

When Windows Live Wave 3 was first released with a suite of mobile services, many people complained the lack of Calendar support for the mobile devices, as Windows Live Calendar for Mobile only supported SMS-based services in Wave 3, …