Windows Live 2009: Colin Anthony and Emmanuel Miranda

Up until Wave 3, Windows Live has been a suite pretty much in name only.  In Wave 2, services were focused, some were culled, in order to make some sense of the seemingly random slapping of the Windows Live moniker …

By Kip Kniskern in Interviews
January 15th, 2009 at 8:11 pm

Windows Live FrameIt to integrate with Live Mesh, client and SDK coming soon

One piece of information that came out of CES 2009 that went unnoticed was about Windows Live FrameIt. The FrameIt team blog today posted a link to a Channel 10 video about the upcoming support for Live Mesh in …

By damaster in News
January 15th, 2009 at 10:08 am

Live Mesh Notice: Scheduled Maintenance

The following maintenance notice appeared on the Live Mesh Forums:

To all our valued customers: The Live Mesh team will be performing some scheduled maintenance on the following days this week and next: January 14th, 15th

By Sunshine in News
January 14th, 2009 at 10:21 pm

Windows Live 2009: Our interview with Ryan Gavin, Sr. Director, Windows Live

2008 was a momentous year for Windows Live.  After lots of fanfare, but with no real direction, Windows Live first appeared in early 2006, with lots of new apps, lots of rebranding (and re-rebranding), and lots of queries from the …

By Kip Kniskern in Interviews
January 14th, 2009 at 9:04 pm

5 Great New Features Between Live Writer And Live Spaces

With the Essentials suite recently released and Live Writer 2009 going final, I’d like to take a moment and just point out some great collaboration work between the Live Writer and Live Spaces team. Here are my 5 favourite new …

By ScottIsAFool in News
January 14th, 2009 at 2:21 pm

Windows Live Calendar: out of beta, adds features

Yesterday Windows Live Calendar shut down for a bit in order to prepare for their latest incarnation, and today they’re back, having shed the “beta” tag and added some nice new features (we’re talking about the online calendar, at Calendar.live.com …

By Kip Kniskern in News
January 14th, 2009 at 6:34 am

Hotmail POP3 access on the way: Omar Shahine explains

We spent the day today (Jan 13) on campus, talking to some of the people who have helped to bring you Wave 3.  In quite a coincidence, one of them was Omar Shahine, who we spoke to last fall when

By Kip Kniskern in Interviews
January 13th, 2009 at 6:12 am

Live Mesh: Service Update (January 13, 2009) [updated again]

The Live Mesh Team is out of their holiday blackout period for releases and announces the long awaited Windows Client update will be available later today.

Fixes

  • Conflict-handling improved for duplicate files and folders

  • Live Mesh no longer disables Aero

By Sunshine in News
January 13th, 2009 at 1:00 am

Windows Live Calendar Planned Downtime on Tuesday, January 13

Tomorrow the Windows Live Calendar service will be down for a few hours:

Windows Live Calendar Planned Downtime on Tuesday, January 13

Our team is about to release more cool features to the Windows Live Calendar service. In preparation for

By Sunshine in News
January 12th, 2009 at 10:21 pm

Live Search gains with advertisers (so does Google)

According to search marketing firm AdGooroo, first page advertising activity on the top three search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Live Search) was up sharply in the first two months of the fourth quarter.

We estimate that Microsoft has increased their

By Kip Kniskern in News
January 12th, 2009 at 9:56 pm