Logos, favicons coming to paid search listings in Bing

Microsoft’s Bing will begin a pilot program to bring company logos and favicons to paid search listings this month, according to a post in MediaPostNews’ Online Media Daily.  The new look for paid search listings are intended to “make …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
September 20th, 2009 at 6:06 am

How To Access And Try Microsoft Office Web Apps Tech Preview

If you are curious and eager to try out Office Web Apps, after reading our review, you have to sign up here. Then you have to wait for the invitation to come. But, (once signed up) there is …

By Sunshine in News
September 18th, 2009 at 11:18 am

A Closer Look at Office Web Apps in Windows Live

Office 2010 If you’ve been following the tech world lately, Office Web Apps Technical Preview is officially released to selected testers within Windows Live SkyDrive today. (And yes, that is the official name now, so much for trying to find a new …

By damaster in News
September 18th, 2009 at 9:51 am

Checking in: How do you get your news?

rss10k We reached a little milestone at LiveSide today, as for the first time our Feedburner chiclet reported over 10,000 RSS readers.  Our thanks go out to all of you, first of all,  we certainly don’t do this for the money, …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 18th, 2009 at 8:16 am

Hotmail begins upgrade rollout

hotmailkeyboardshortcuts We told you last week about some upcoming changes to Hotmail, all part of “Wave 4 M1” (M1 refers to Milestone 1, a development marker.  Wave 4 development is currently well into M2).  Well after some hurried changes to …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 18th, 2009 at 7:50 am

Some details on Office Web Apps (thanks Mary Jo)

As usual, Mary Jo Foley is right on top of all the latest from Microsoft, including Office Web Apps.

In her post on “Ten things to know”, she answers some of the more immediate questions on Office Web Apps, …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 17th, 2009 at 8:31 pm

Office Web Apps coming to Windows Live

In a press release today, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Office Web Apps will begin a limited number invitation only Technical Preview.  Office Web Apps will offer lightweight versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on the web through Windows …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
September 17th, 2009 at 7:44 pm

Wave 4: Live Writer To Get The Ribbon Interface?

Things have been very quiet in most of the Windows Live products since Wave 3 got released, but the one product who’s silence seems to bring concern about its future is Live Writer. This hasn’t been helped by some key …

By ScottIsAFool in News
September 16th, 2009 at 4:45 pm

Messenger users will need to upgrade to WLM 9 as of Sept. 15

Back in August, the Windows Live Messenger team blog posted an announcement regarding a mandatory upgrade to version 14.0.8089, due to security issues.  Beginning on August 25th, Messenger users on 8.1 or 8.5 were reminded to upgrade, but as of …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 15th, 2009 at 8:12 am

New Feed And Contact Partners Coming To Windows Live

This week 23 new third-party feed partners, including Blingee, BuddyTV, Goodreads, Hulu, Judy’s Book, MySpace, Newsvine, OleOle, Qik and SlideShare are rolling out in Windows Live (full list available here).

Adding feeds to your Windows Live Profile is easy. …

By Sunshine in News
September 14th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
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