Windows Live 2009: Pierro Sierra on shared data experience

We hope you’ve enjoyed our discussions with some of the program managers working on Windows Live, we really appreciate the opportunity to get to sit down and talk to them, and appreciate the opportunity to bring them to you.

Our …

By Kip Kniskern in Interviews
January 20th, 2009 at 4:59 am

Windows Live Sync downtime notice

The following appeared on the public newsgroup:LiveSync

On Monday, January 19th, Windows Live Sync will be unavailable from 11 AM
PST until 4 PM PST while we perform some upgrades. We apologize for the
inconvenience and promise to have

By Sunshine in News
January 19th, 2009 at 1:25 pm

Windows Live 2009: Omar Shahine part 2 – People in Windows Live

While Omar Shahine has been kind enough to talk to us (twice) about POP3 support in Hotmail, it’s not really what he works on.  Omar has been busy down in Mountain View, California, working on Hotmail, and the People features …

By Kip Kniskern in Interviews
January 19th, 2009 at 8:46 am

Windows Live 2009: Jeff Kunins and Windows Live Social Experience

Jeff Kunins is a Group Program Manager for Social Networking for Windows Live, working on some of the features of Windows Live that cut across what used to be separate products.  Working on Spaces and Groups, Profile, What’s New feed, …

By Kip Kniskern in Interviews
January 19th, 2009 at 1:02 am

Windows Live 2009: Rodger Benson on Windows Live Photo Gallery

In our next interview, we spent some time with Rodger Benson, a program manager working on Photo Gallery talking about facial recognition, new upload limits for photos on photos.live.com (or Spaces), how Photo Gallery works with the suite (for example: …

By Kip Kniskern in Interviews
January 18th, 2009 at 10:51 pm

Capturing “the moment” with Photosynth: Barack Obama takes the Oath of Office

On Tuesday, January 20th, Barack Obama will be sworn in as President of the United States in front of the US Capitol in Washington DC, and in front of an estimated 2-5 million witnesses.  To capture the moment, CNN News

By Kip Kniskern in News
January 18th, 2009 at 12:12 am

Live Search introduces News Alerts, have your news delivered to your inbox

Don’t want to go on the web to read your news? How about having it delivered to you? You can now. Live Search introduces News Alerts:

Now you can have your news delivered to your inbox every day,

By Sunshine in News
January 17th, 2009 at 2:43 pm

Live Mesh team joins Windows/Windows Live org

Mary Jo Foley is reporting that the Live Mesh team, which started out as a special project under Ray Ozzie and known at first as Windows Live Core, has joined the Windows / Windows Live org, under Senior Vice …

By Kip Kniskern in News
January 16th, 2009 at 8:18 pm

Live Search – now on your iPhone!

Live Search has just released a new version (in the US, UK, and Australia) that includes an iPhone friendly site.  This is not an iPhone app, but an iPhone-friendly version of the Live Search site (m.live.com).  From an …

By Kip Kniskern in News
January 16th, 2009 at 7:59 pm

Live Search Maps for The Netherlands launched

After Finland got it’s Live Search Maps, we now also have Live Search Maps in The Netherlands (my Location).

LMNetherlands

This release includes 3D, Collections, Directions (drive and walk) and 43 cities (Amsterdam isn’t amongst those strangely enough) in Birds-Eye …

By Sunshine in News
January 16th, 2009 at 7:04 pm