We first heard the term last summer. Mary Jo Foley posted on some possible new names for Live Search, including Kumo, which has led us on quite a little goose chase over the past months, one that doesn’t appear …
The curious case of Kumo: more than just a “test name”?
Flight Status From Live.com
Ian Moulster posted about a handy feature in Live Search: flight status. Flight status? Yea, as long as you know the flight number you can enter it on Live Search and the status will be shown right below the sponsored …
Windows Mobile 6.5 RTM speculation heats up
Mobile phone site Uberphones is reporting that Windows Mobile 6.5 is now available for Microsoft FTEs (full time equivalents), and both they and Neowin are taking that to mean that a Windows Mobile 6.5 release won’t be far behind, on …
More problems for Hotmail (now fixed)
Seattle Times reporter Ben Romano posts today on some more problems for Hotmail, this time apparently caused by “routine maintenance” overnight gone somewhat wrong. Romano pointed to the Hotmail Online Solutions Center, and a rash of recent discussions about …
Azure joins the “crash club”: down for 22 hours
Microsoft’s fledgling Azure Services platform, a beta offering that offers cloud computing services, suffered a 22 hour outage this weekend. Azure joins Amazon and Flexiscale along with Hotmail and Gmail as web services that have suffered major outages recently. …
Queensland University of Technology selects Live@edu for 40,000 students
After a year of testing between offerings from Microsoft and Google, Australia’s Queensland University of Technology (QUT), has selected Microsoft’s Live@edu, according to a story in Australian IT.
Australia has become quite a battleground for hosted email services. …
Is a Yahoo! search deal the reason for Kumo?
Way back last February, when Microsoft first made a public offer to buy Yahoo!, part of what they were after was the brand. Microsoft executives have been almost happy to point out that they have a brand problem, especially, according …
From Windows Live to Live Search to MSN: QnA Updated
We reported almost a month ago that QnA is moving from Live Search to MSN. Today the QnA team officially announced the latest updates to the QnA website, including a new look for QnA with the standardised MSN headers. …
Add Windows Live Calendar badge to your blog or website
A nice post over on the Hotmail blog has some simple instructions on how to add a Windows Live Calendar “badge” to your blog or website, using an iframe.
(Not sure why our badge doesn’t show the month calendar, …
Live Framework SDK And Tools Updated
The Live Framework Team announced the April CTP update of the Live Framework SDK and Tools.
This update includes:
- Support for side-by-side installation of the www.mesh.com local client and the developer.mesh-ctp.com local client. This means that you can use the
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