We haven’t had the heart to start our own little Windows Live Deadpool, but the hits just keep on coming. Windows Live OneCare was probably the first shocker, and then Soapbox (ok not a Windows Live service, but it almost …
Which Windows Live service is next to go?
LiveSide: the latest on Link Spam
If you’d been watching our membership counter in the past week or so, you would have noticed that we’ve gained about 300 users this past week, with more coming in all the time. Normally you might think this was a …
Twitter on Bing: live today in the US; trends, links, and more
Well Microsoft did indeed announce partnerships with Twitter and Facebook today (and shortly after, Marissa Mayer over at Google followed suit, announcing their own partnership with Twitter). As quoted by MG Siegler at TechCrunch, here’s what Dr. Qi Lu …
Windows Live Sync update coming this week, update for Snow Leopard coming soon
The Windows Live Sync team blog posted the following announcement today:
…Soon [This Thursday], when you sign in to Windows Live Sync on your computers running Windows, you’ll see that you need to go to the Sync website to install
Live Mesh for Snow Leopard: fixed, now works :)
When Apple released its latest version of the Mac OS X operating system, dubbed Snow Leopard, last August, an unfortunate side effect was that Live Mesh for Mac no longer worked. After rewriting a lot of code, the Live …
Silverlight Streaming to be discontinued: new Azure service coming
In a move that should surprise no one (in case you were wondering why we didn’t use Silverlight Streaming to host video after Soapbox closed), Silverlight Streaming, a Windows Live beta service for hosting Silverlight audio and video content, …
MSE after one week: 1.5 mil downloads, 535k infected machines
A post on Thursday on the Microsoft Malware Protection Center blog reports that not only were there 1.5 million downloads of MSE, but almost 4 million malware detections from 535,752 machines were encountered!
According to the blog post:
…Microsoft Security
Adding Photos To Hotmail Messages Possible Again
Back in August, the Hotmail team temporarily removed adding photos to the body of Windows Live Hotmail messages due to a security issue in the upload tool. They have been building an updated version of the tool and now you …
Office Web Applications: we talk with Chris Bryant about consumer use
We had a chance this week to sit down and talk with Chris Bryant, Director, Office Product Management at Microsoft, to talk a little bit more about Office Web Applications and specifically how Windows Live and consumer users will benefit …
“Most, if not all” Sidekick data restored, says Microsoft
Microsoft is now saying that “most, if not all” Sidekick data thought to be lost in a server upgrade to Danger’s Sun/Oracle platform can now be recovered, according to a press release issued by Roz Ho, Corporate Vice-President for Premium …
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