Windows Live Wave 3 beta urls show up

A couple of weeks ago we started noticing an interesting referrer popping up in the stats for some of our posts. Turns out Microsoft moved their Wave 3 services from the dogfood servers onto beta servers, and as a result …

By Chris in Featured News
September 10th, 2008 at 12:38 am

Microsoft Phone Data Manager Beta

One of our LiveSide readers, Pradeep, came across this Microsoft service. Thank you for notifying us Pradeep.

Microsoft® Phone Data Manager Beta is an application that is designed to take away the worry of losing data on your

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By Sunshine in News
September 9th, 2008 at 6:45 pm

Photosynth Update, September 8

  Photosynth just got its second update:

  • Improved upload success rate. This update should significantly reduce the number of synths failing with error code “0xA000000B”. The problem happens when a file is currupted on it’s way to storage. We’ve
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By Sunshine in News
September 9th, 2008 at 2:07 pm

Microsoft Translation goes in-house

A day late on this one, but congratulations anyway to the Microsoft Research Translation Team for making the transition from a third party translation technology to going “in-house”.  From the MSR-MT blog:

  • Translation now fully powered by the Microsoft
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By Kip Kniskern in News
September 9th, 2008 at 5:55 am

As expected, Microsoft unveils Windows Live Video Messages

mslv_welcome_gadget While Steve Jobs, his health, and a new slew of iPods dominated the tech news today, Microsoft tried to make a bit of a splash as well.  Zune is getting a new color and some new capabilities (including expanded sync …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 9th, 2008 at 5:33 am

More on Wave 3: Windows Live Writer to support YouTube, Events and Photo Albums

Having told you about what’s coming in Messenger, Mail, Movie Maker and Photo Gallery, it’s now time to cover the next one in the series: Windows Live Writer. Let us start off with a screenshot for you:

We’ve noticed on …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 7th, 2008 at 4:52 pm

Live Mesh buildup begins: Mesh Apps shown at Tech Ed Australia

Good thing our friend Long Zheng is an accomplished lurker, as his annoying persistent hanging around the Live Mesh guys at Microsoft’s Tech Ed Australia paid off last week.  Long got what we think is the first public look at …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
September 7th, 2008 at 6:33 am

LiveSide weekend catchup

As some of you may have noticed, our RSS feed has been a bit weird this past week, not matching the stories posted on the site. This is now fixed (fingers crossed), but means those lazy RSS readers like myself …

By Chris in News
September 6th, 2008 at 2:42 pm

A picture is worth a thousand words: People Tags in Windows Live Photo Gallery Wave 3

You’ve heard it at LiveSide (and LiveSino) first, that Windows Live Photo Gallery will feature facial recognition in its wave 3 release. Then we saw a mocked-up screenshot of how it may have looked like. Microsoft then helped us confirm …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 6th, 2008 at 4:46 am

Live Mesh Service Update: 0.9.3103.14

As we noted the other day, Live Mesh had a slight issue if you stopped syncing a folder. Well, the Live Mesh team have issued an update that fixes this:

Fixed issue where deleting a Live Mesh folder on one

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By kip in News
September 5th, 2008 at 11:03 am
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