Office Live Workspace: New Features

Our friend PicturePan2, just pointed out some changes on Office Live workspace. First off he sees a new header that says Tech Preview:WorkspaceTechPrev workspacebeta 
I’ve checked, but on mine it has the beta header (second image above). …

By Sunshine in News
February 25th, 2009 at 1:16 pm

Live Search in the labs: “Viveri” and “Ubiquity”

While Live Search hasn’t made much headway in the past year and hasn’t made a deal with Yahoo! to acquire their business, Microsoft seems to be more committed than ever to continue the uphill battle to make Live Search relevant.  …

By Kip Kniskern in News
February 24th, 2009 at 5:30 am

Microsoft Advertising: “last click shouldn’t get all the credit”

Last year at Advance08 Microsoft announced both a new name for their advertising strategy – “Microsoft Advertising”, and the concept of “engagement mapping”.  The thought is that a consumer may look at numerous ads, websites, and brand impressions well before …

By Kip Kniskern in News
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:59 am

Introducing the new Windows Live Hotmail Mobile beta

Hotmail mobileYou may have noticed that the Windows Live Mobile Wave 3 upgrade previously did not include any updates to Hotmail. As part of the new Windows Live Hotmail upgrade, one thing that went unnoticed was that together with it …

By damaster in Featured News
February 22nd, 2009 at 1:10 pm

Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant 6.5 beta for Windows 7

Back in May 2006, we posted an article telling you about what Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant was. Up until now this software only offered the ability to save multiple credentials (Windows Live IDs) on their machine as an Internet …

By damaster in News
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:19 pm

Live.com Images: pager coming soon?

Today’s little flurry over the Live.com snow leopard isn’t a big controversy, but it does underscore the fact that people are catching on to Live.com images as something cool.  Here in the US, we’ve had them since the Olympics, and …

By Kip Kniskern in News
February 20th, 2009 at 9:34 am

Microsoft Equipt to be discontinued after April 30, 2009

Microsoft is going to discontinue their Software and Services subscription package Equipt. Equipt, which includes Office Home and Student 2007, OneCare, Office Live Workspaces and Windows Live Essentials, got launched July last year.

To help address the growing

By Sunshine in News
February 19th, 2009 at 5:19 pm

Deep Zoom Composer – February 2009 Preview Released

Another update to the Deep Zoom Composer has just been released. This release only contains fixes to issues that were reported to the team. More information on these fixes can be found on the Expression Blend and Design team

By Sunshine in Featured News
February 19th, 2009 at 12:30 pm

Live Search cashback/eBay problems continue

snafu Live Search cashback apparently continues to be beset with problems, at least for a subset of customers who used the service over the holidays to purchase items on eBay.  We first reported problems some customers were having on February 4th, …

By Kip Kniskern in News
February 19th, 2009 at 9:10 am