Virtual Earth ASP.NET control confirmed for July

We talked about it at ReMIX Australia, Angus Logan got grilled over when it will be put into the hands of developers and now the release is set, the Virtual Earth ASP.NET control will be shipped in the Windows …

By John OBrien in News
June 6th, 2008 at 8:30 am

Does Microsoft need a new search brand?

Last fall, some of our sources hinted at an upcoming rebranding effort for Live Search, code named “Rome”.  That renaming effort, seemingly thwarted by all the buzz around Yahoo!, never took place (or at least hasn’t so far).  Yet talk …

By Kip Kniskern in Opinion
June 5th, 2008 at 4:44 pm

Windows Live Wave 3: New Header UI

As the 2nd part in our Windows Live Wave 3 series, we’re taking a look at the new header UI that Microsoft is working on. It was almost exactly a year ago that we started talking about the Wave …

By Chris in Featured News
June 5th, 2008 at 5:06 am

Danny Thorpe rejoins Microsoft

Danny Thorpe, “Architect of Disruption” has rejoined Microsoft after leaving last year to work with Cooliris.  Thorpe (who has his own Wikipedia page!) joined Microsoft in the Windows Live Platform team in April of 2006, working …

By Kip Kniskern in News
June 5th, 2008 at 4:20 am

Live Search Web Page Error Toolkit Released

Over at dev.live.com they have announced the release of the Web Page Error Toolkit which “allows you to display custom error messages with search results that generated from relevant keywords.” From the Live Search dev blog:

For large web

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By kip in Developer
June 4th, 2008 at 6:55 pm

Windows Live Expo joins the Windows Live deadpool

Windows Live Expo, the Craigslist wannabe classified ads product,  is heading for what TechCrunch likes to call the “deadpool”. This follows closely on the heels of announcements shutting down Live Search Books and Academic.  A notice on the site …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
June 4th, 2008 at 3:56 pm

Windows Search 4.0 released

Having released a public beta of Windows Search 4.0 back at the end of March, a final version has now been released today (thanks Brandon!). As we’ve talked about previously, this update for Windows (XP, Vista, Server and WHS) …

By Chris in News
June 4th, 2008 at 8:01 am

Search, Give, and share with “Live Search”

Some changes are beginning to pop with Live Search, up to including a possible new name and brand.  Yesterday at SMX Advanced, Online Services President Kevin Johnson talked to Danny Sullivan for Search Engine Watch about branding.  From the Associated …

By Kip Kniskern in News
June 4th, 2008 at 4:09 am

The New Live Writer SDK

In my previous post, I mentioned that the Live Writer SDK had been updated as well as Live Writer itself. In this post I will show you how to build a couple of quick plugins that use the new …

By kip in Developer
June 3rd, 2008 at 5:00 pm

Live Mesh desktop wallpapers

After pestering Steve Clayton for the Live Mesh wallpaper featured in his recent Sky interview, Steve has now kindly put them online for all to download.

Unfortunately the maximum resolution is only 960×720, so for those of  you with …

By Chris in News
June 3rd, 2008 at 3:51 pm
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