Apologies for the downtime, we’ve been down the last 17 hours or so, due to problems at our webhost. Pretty frustrating, really, and we’re exploring our options (know a good web host? – leave a comment). Glad to be back …
PhotoZoom and SLS get Silverlight 2 update
Emil Protalinski just caught the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 update to Silverlight Streaming, which also effects the PhotoZoom service.
For those of you who haven’t tried PhotoZoom yet, the service allows you to implement the Silverlight DeepZoom technology on your …
Ozzie working on another secret cloud project – Bill Gates gets silenced
As this is the week that Bill Gates retires from his day to day duties at Microsoft, there’s a whole bunch of coverage out there looking at his impact over the last few decades and how he’s shaped the digital …
New i’m Initiative campaign to begin: 30 days of non-stop email and IM
Microsoft has been having some good success with the (US only) i’m Initiative, having raised $1.5 million for charities, and at the same time pushing new downloads of Windows Live Messenger (and more recently, Hotmail sign-ups):
…New customer acquisition
Mashed08 – Are You Going?
Last month we noted that the BBC and Microsoft will be running a UK Developer event taking place on June 21-22nd. Well, that time is upon us and I will be heading up to London tonight ready for it tomorrow …
Microsoft to roll-out Live Search Cashback to UK, then EMEA
At the Cannes International Advertising Festival today, Microsoft has announced it plans to extend the new Live Search Cashback program to the UK.
Launched at the Advance08 advertising summit held in Redmond, Live Search Cashback has been in testing during …
Live Maps gets a new header and other Live Search news
Thanks to LiveSide member derviskemal for noticing that the Live Maps header has changed. Here’s the new look:
…and what we were seeing up until a few days ago:
Much more in keeping with the overall new look of Live …
Live Mesh Gets Updated – No More UAC? (Updated with full changelog)
Steve Clayton rightly points out that Live Mesh got an update during the night, which I’ve seen on my three PCs that are in my own Mesh. At the moment there is no official changelog of what’s been updated, but …
Windows Live Help Community is now gone too
As I was trying to browse to Windows Live Help Community today, what turned up was not what I expected – Microsoft had silently removed the service and the link now redirects to Windows Live Help. This is the latest …
The LiveSide List of Windows Live services: new and improved (?!)
We’ve had a LiveSide list of Windows Live services in a couple of forms up for quite some time now, but truthfully we haven’t been faithful in keeping it updated. This week, though, we’re rolling out an early version of …
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