Messenger Connect discontinues .Net Library

An email sent to beta testers and posted on the Messenger Connect forums announced today that Microsoft is discontinuing the Messenger Connect strongly typed .Net Library, instead offering samples of code which work directly with Messenger Connect web services, using …

By Kip Kniskern in Developer
August 30th, 2010 at 1:32 am

Windows Live Activity Streams

This week Rob Dolin wrote up a good summary of Windows Live Activity Streams, the information you see on Windows Live Home, in the expanded Messenger window, and soon on Windows Phones. 

Today we added a “Share with Messenger” …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 28th, 2010 at 2:03 am

A new (old) name for Live Sync: Live Mesh !?!

We’ve been hearing rumblings about a Live Sync name change, and sure enough, today on the Inside Windows Live blog Microsoft is announcing that Live Sync will be renamed as…Windows Live Mesh.

Geez we’re not going to even bother …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 27th, 2010 at 8:43 pm

Chris Pendleton moves to Bing Mobile

Chris PendletonToday our good friend Chris Pendleton is announcing his departure as the Bing Maps Tech Evangelist. He’s been holding this position for over 3 years. On September 13 he will become a Sr. Program Manager on the Bing Mobile team …

By Sunshine in News
August 27th, 2010 at 7:44 pm

Exchange ActiveSync, coming on Monday August 30: our recap

One of the most hotly anticipated features of Windows Live Wave 4, judging by the interest here and elsewhere, is Exchange ActiveSync for Hotmail.  The long promised feature first surfaced here thanks to an alert LiveSide reader back in June, …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 27th, 2010 at 7:01 am

Docs.com Update adds tags support, search, sort and filter, and new Social Doc Templates

Back in April, Microsoft FUSE Labs released Docs.com, a service which ties in Facebook with Office Web Apps to let you share documents with your friends on the social network. It seems like the guys over at FUSE …

By damaster in News
August 26th, 2010 at 2:56 pm

A sneak peek at IE9 UI: What do you think?

This morning Mary Jo Foley caught Microsoft’s Russian subsidiary’s website showing off what looks like our first glimpse at the new IE9 UI:

ie9-ui

The single image (since taken down, of course) shows a simplified look, with a combined search/address …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 25th, 2010 at 7:48 pm

Bing: Portland, music and food

Bing sure loves Portland! Just released is a new Bing Map App called the Bing Food Cart Finder, which helps you find over 250 food carts in the area! You can filter food vendors by recommended picks from Portland …

By Sunshine in Bing
August 25th, 2010 at 1:34 pm

Office Web Apps updated: Print from Word Web App; Excel Charts and AutoFill; more

Windows Live Essentials isn’t the only suite to be updated recently, a blog post on the Office Web Apps blog (and featured on Inside Windows Live) points out a number of new features for Office Web Apps.  Like Essentials, …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 24th, 2010 at 10:39 pm

Yahoo! organic search in US, Canada now “Powered by Bing”

The Microsoft-Yahoo! search alliance continues to move forward on schedule, and today Microsoft Senior Vice President Satya Nadella announced “a great milestone for Bing and Yahoo!”, as all (organic, meaning non-paid) searches on Yahoo!, in the US and Canada, in …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
August 24th, 2010 at 7:04 pm
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