Today marks the end of the 2008 Imagine Cup. The winners were just announced at an awards ceremony at the famous Musée du Louvre in Paris. I am happy to report that Team SOAK, which includes our good …
Get 33gb of cloud storage for free with Windows Live
Our friend Picturepan2, who runs LiveSino.net (which does a LOT more than just translate our posts into Chinese), got to adding up all the storage you get with Windows Live, inspired by a post by another LiveSide member, Jamie …
MSN customised page gets beta update
We haven’t mentioned MSN for a while, mainly due to all the Microsoft-Yahoo talk that’s been going on. However a few days ago the My MSN customised homepage launched a new beta version, available at http://next.my.msn.com.
So what’s new? …
Imagine Cup 08: Good luck to all!
This year’s Imagine Cup, a Microsoft sponsored student competition featuring student teams from around the world, is kicking off its finals in Paris, France. Of course we’re rooting for our friend (and arch-rival) Long Zheng and his SOAK team …
Live Search Maps Improves Internationally
More news on Live Search and Virtual Earth. Live Search Maps China has expanded and improved it’s site with:
- Real-time Traffic in Beijing
- Send-to-Mobile for free for local search and transit routing result
- Transit data refresh for existing 11
Ask Maps Now Using Virtual Earth
Chris Pendleton,Virtual Earth Evangelist, lets us know that Ask.com is now using Virtual Earth as their mapping platform. In this they are following portal sites as YellowPages.com, Superpages.com, and WhitePages.com.
Ask.com has integrated it into Ask …
MSFT-YHOO, it just continues*
Like the soap opera it has become, the workings behind a deal between Microsoft and Yahoo! just don’t ever seem to end. This week we’ve seen a Yahoo! PowerPoint presentation that tries to place all the blame on the failed …
OneCare v 2.5 Final released to production: Available now
OneCare version 2.5, which went into public beta in early April, has just been released into production, and is available now by download at www.onecare.live.com. While the newest build (2.5.2900.3) won’t show much if anything in the way …
Microsoft Launches Consumer Subscription Offering That Combines Microsoft Office And Windows Live OneCare: Microsoft Equipt, Initially Known As Albany
Remember Albany Beta? Well, it has been renamed to Equipt and is released today!
…REDMOND, Wash. — July 2, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today unveiled Microsoft Equipt, an all-in-one security and productivity software subscription service for consumers. In
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