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 …
Window shopping with Bing
This week Bing shopping got some updates. On the left side there’s a list of product categories, which you can click to go to the part of the “catalogue” to find the product you are looking for. 
All very …
Bing’s Best 2
Are you on Windows 7 and like the Bing homepage images? You can have the best of them as wallpapers for your desktop! The first Bing’s Best theme pack was so popular, the team decided to release a second Bing …
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 …
Twitter on Bing sports a new cleaner look
Just noticed a tweet from Fuse Labs, Microsoft Research’s applied development arm, that one of their projects, Twitter on Bing, has been updated with a new look:
Here’s a shot of the original design of the Twitter on …
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, …
Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone supports WLM contacts
If you use the Yahoo! Messenger iPhone app, a new version released yesterday now supports the ability to chat with your Windows Live contacts, according to a post on the Yahoo! Messenger Blog dated April 4th.
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