Well the fun just never stops around here. Without going into detail, we’ve been fighting some email issues recently. In an attempt to deal with them, we made some configuration changes yesterday that seemed to have caused a bit of …
My Phone Beta Opened To All Users!
We notified you yesterday about the My Phone service update. All finished now, so what’s in the update?
– The My Phone web site got a makeover
Not only with the new logo, but also with a Video …
Windows Live Messenger Hackathon
In San Francisco next week? Want some free beer, pizza and expert help on the new Messenger APIs? The Live Services team is holding a Hackathon at Microsoft’s San Francisco offices on Market Street in San Francisco (near the …
Microsoft to show “Kumo” next week?
The Wall St. Journal is reporting today that Microsoft is expected to show for the first time publically its new search effort, code named Kumo, at “D: All Things Digital”. The technology conference, hosted by All Things D …
Webware 100 Awards 2009 – And The Winners Are…
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Back in April we told you about the Windows Live and other Microsoft products nominations for the Webware 100 Awards 2009. Well, the winners just got announced. Nearly 630,000 votes were cast during the voting this year to …
On the eve of Kumo, is Live Search better than you think?
Kumo, the for now name of a newly rebranded Microsoft Live Search, should be upon us soon. Kumo has been in corporate wide internal testing at Microsoft since early March (oops added the time frame), and at least parts of …
My Phone Update Scheduled On May 18 [updated]
Just so you know:
…The My Phone service will be not be available on May 18 to enable deployment of a service upgrade. During this maintenance period, you will be unable to access the My Phone web site or to
The one where we try out our backup solution
Thanks to our friend Robert McLaws, we’re set up here at LiveSide with a nightly backup using Jungle Disk and Amazon S3. We’ve been pretty impressed by it, especially with the ~$1.00/mo charges we pay to have our database …
Introducing LiveSide’s E3 Correspondent
As much as I like the relative anonymity that comes with being an unfamiliar face, I feel as though a brief introduction is in order.
My name is Chris Poirier. I am a two time Windows Live MVP Award Recipient, …
Hotmail adds POP – GMail makes hay
Well it was probably only a matter of time, but GMail has introduced a new feature that makes it easier for users of other email services with POP access to migrate their accounts.
Of course Hotmail, after what seemed to …
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