Office Live Small Business, Live@edu are now Office 365

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Microsoft announced their new Office 365 cloud service yesterday which combines Microsoft Office 2010, Office Web Apps, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and Lync Online into a single bundle for small businesses, enterprises, and educational institutions. Digging deeper into the FAQs …

By damaster in News
October 20th, 2010 at 7:33 am

Windows Live has a new big brother: Office 365

10-19Office_lgMicrosoft announced today a beta trial of a new hosted suite of services, dubbed Office 365.  The new suite combines Office Web Apps, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and Lync Online into a single bundle either for small businesses (less …

By Kip Kniskern in News
October 19th, 2010 at 10:51 pm

Eric Larsen completes Save the Poles Expedition

Eric Larsen and his team have completed the third, and final, leg of the Save the Poles Expedition. Late last week he made it up to the summit of Mt. Everest. 
Eric Larsen and his team on top of Mt. Everest with the Bing Flag
Eric Larsen and his team on

By Sunshine in Bing
October 19th, 2010 at 10:35 am

Docs.com updated: Search Improvements, PDF, User Generated Templates

Last week, Microsoft FUSE Labs had made some significant improvements to Docs.com since their August update as stated on their recent blog post. Here’s what was updated in the recent release:

Full Text Search and Social Document Ranking

In …

By damaster in News
October 19th, 2010 at 5:33 am

What’s new with the latest Hotmail update?

Last month Microsoft announced a string of updates to be rolled out to Hotmail users within the next few months. The updates included Facebook chat support within Hotmail’s web messenger, sub-folders support, increase in attachment size limit to 25MB, new …

By damaster in News
October 19th, 2010 at 1:39 am

Bing testing “Partner” results in their own tab?

We’re still working through some details of our move to WordPress, but there’s more to LiveSide than just new themes, and we’ve got some interesting tidbits to report.  This one comes to us from our friend Nikhil in India, who …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
October 18th, 2010 at 6:25 pm

Ray Ozzie leaves Microsoft

In an email to employees today, CEO Steve Ballmer has announced that Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie is leaving Microsoft:

…Ray and I are announcing today Ray’s intention to step down from his role as chief software architect. He

By Kip Kniskern in News
October 18th, 2010 at 4:14 pm

LiveSide on WordPress

Boy this is a little nerve-wracking!  This morning we switched our blog over to WordPress, running a self-hosted site on our Windows Server.  We’ve been working behind the scenes for the last few weeks, and still have some work to …

By Kip Kniskern in News
October 18th, 2010 at 10:46 am

Katy Perry iPhone App sponsored by Bing

imageDid you know Bing sponsors mobile apps (for iPhone)? Well, they do! And now, for a limited amount of time you can download “Katy Perry Revenge by Bing,” an all-new game featuring Katy Perry’s new single “Firework” for free.

The

By Sunshine in Bing
October 15th, 2010 at 9:41 am

Messenger Connect is out of beta: What’s new

A pair of blog posts on Inside Windows Live today are announcing that Messenger Connect, the set of development tools that allow you to bring Windows Live Messenger functionality into your website, has gone final.

First, Jeff Kunins announced that

By Kip Kniskern in News
October 14th, 2010 at 11:25 am