Windows Live Hotmail Wave 3: What’s New

Thanks to some great work by tophtucker and then BV2312, we managed to catch the new Windows Live Hotmail promotion site as soon as it popped up today. What we love about this site is that it has gone public with some of …

By Chris in Featured News
August 26th, 2008 at 8:41 am

Old M1 Build of Messenger spreads across web

An early version of an interim build of the new wave 3 messenger is spreading across the web, having been posted by JCXP.net, WinXperts.com and others.  As Chris said in our review of this build on August 11, after screenshots …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 24th, 2008 at 7:00 pm

The Live Search Olympics collection

The 2008 Olympics has been a source of pride for the athletes, for China, and also for Live Search, who posted a very nice series of background images here in the United States, at a rate of about 2 per …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
August 24th, 2008 at 2:26 am

Welcome to LiveSide v.4

We told you about our server issues a month or so ago, and ever since then we’ve been working behind the scenes to make a move over to our brand new server.  You can see all the specs in the …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
August 23rd, 2008 at 5:46 pm

Wave 3 urls start resolving, services betas coming soon

Ah its almost that time of the year, when we start posting 5 times a day with more screenshots than you can shake a stick at. Just to wet the appetite, the url for the Windows Live People service now …

By Chris in News
August 23rd, 2008 at 5:41 pm

Photosynth: User Review

As Kip mentioned in his post about the Photosynth release, I’ve been playing about with Photosynth. I was that is, ’til it decided it won’t publish any more of my Synths. I made two, deleted one and then …

By Sunshine in News
August 21st, 2008 at 10:34 pm

PhotoSynth released as a Worldwide “Software + Services” Download, to become part of MSN

photosynthlogo Photosynth, which was initially released as a Microsoft Live Labs Technology Preview, is being released as a new free service, to become part of MSN.  The new product, available at www.photosynth.net, combines a 20gb online storage and presentation piece, …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 21st, 2008 at 1:01 pm

West Des Moines, Iowa is “Where the Internet Lives”; site for newest Microsoft data center

 Microsoft and the state of Iowa have announced the location of the newest Microsoft data center, in West Des Moines, Iowa.  Located “southwest of the intersection of Booneville Road and South 88th Street (also known as Xavier Place)” …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 21st, 2008 at 3:27 am

Microsoft plans to use Powerset to tailor search

Microsoft plans to use the tools it acquired in Powerset to “gain an edge against Google” according to a report coming out of the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose on Tuesday.  Senior Vice President Satya Nadella believe that …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 20th, 2008 at 3:09 pm

Windows Live Video Messages site is live for now (it says Sept 9th)

Thanks for the comments in the last post, it appears that Windows Live Video Messages is up and running, at http://videomessages.live.com/Portal/default.aspx?lc=1033.  Sign in with a Live ID, and give it a try (you may have to back out of …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 20th, 2008 at 8:26 am