Did you miss your Windows Live Navigation menu on Windows Live Spaces? Not anymore, the Team just posted the following:
…Today we’re making a change to Spaces that is a direct result of the feedback you gave us here
Changes to the Spaces header
Live Search Cashback, troubled but working on it…
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Virtual Earth Imagery Release, January 2009
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Obliques (Bird’s Eye, International)
France – Paris, Nantes, St Quentin, Pau, Montauban, Lorient, Calais, …
Automatic “Add to Windows Live Calendar” from your Web Content
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…All it takes for this to work
Zune to offer exclusive free video content: Variety
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Live Search Instant Answers in IE8 search box
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The numbers game: reading beyond the headlines
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Live Mesh and Live Framework clients, now best friends
For those who have been developing against the Live Framework, one of the biggest drawbacks of doing this is having to give up your Mesh client on your dev PC. The choice was sadly rather simple, either use the Live …
Changes to the QnA Code of Conduct
The Live QnA Code of Conduct has been updated so it’s easier to understand.
…Summary of Changes
One of the first changes we made was to make it clear that the QnA Code of Conduct Supplement is just that
Live Search Add-in for Firefox: adds Auto Suggest
Just released today is an add-in for Firefox that supports the auto-suggest feature in Live Search, available for download at Mozilla.org.
According to a blog post from Alessandro Catorcini, Lead Program Manager for the Live Search API:
…This
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