Live Mesh Technology Preview: First Look

So at 5 minutes after 9pm, I navigated to www.mesh.com, logged in with my Windows Live ID, and was off and running.  First order of business (after accepting the terms), was to add a couple of devices and synch …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:43 pm

Live Mesh: it’s everything we told you about (and a lot more)

mesh As you read this Live Mesh (www.mesh.com) is being announced as a Technology preview.  Of course if you’ve been reading LiveSide you already know quite a bit about Live Mesh, we’ve been telling you about Live Mesh (or …

By Kip Kniskern in News
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:04 pm

Yet another Windows Live FolderShare build

The Windows Live FolderShare team just posted that they updated their Windows client with a new build (14.0.1331.0415) improving reliability and security. This time they will make this version mandatory meaning that all users trying to log in with an …

By Gregor in News
April 23rd, 2008 at 6:56 am

Windows Live Translator updated

The MS Research Machine Translation team has released an updated version of Windows Live Translator. The UI has been tweaked a bit here and there but we have not found any new features. Some people have reported that the …

By Gregor in News
April 23rd, 2008 at 6:26 am

Live Mesh: Boy have we got questions!

meshFirst of all, congratulations to Ray Ozzie and the Windows Live Core/Live Mesh team(s) for an impressive initial offering, and for opening up the Live Mesh platform this early in the game.  We’re just getting our head around Live Mesh …

By Kip Kniskern in Opinion
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:06 am

The new Live Search Products is here!

Following an extremely long period of inactivity (in fact, the team blog‘s last post was back in April 2007), Live Search Products has finally been updated along with the latest wave of Live Search releases. We’ve always thought …

By damaster in News
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:19 am

Live Mesh week: Ray Ozzie’s biggest bet since Groove?

We’ve been telling you to get ready for this since last December, and this week, Ray Ozzie and the Windows Live Core team are preparing to unveil their first big project, Live Mesh.  We gave you the rundown on …

By Kip Kniskern in Opinion
April 21st, 2008 at 2:58 pm

Live Maps part 2: Export Collections to Nav device

In part one of this little series on new features of Live Maps, Steve Lombardi, a Live Maps program manager, showed us around Live Maps Collections, and MapCruncher.  In the second part, we’ll talk about exporting a Live Maps …

By Kip Kniskern in News
April 20th, 2008 at 8:55 am

Microsoft Announces Changes for Accessing Hotmail with Outlook Express

Important news if you currently access your Windows Live Hotmail with Outlook Express, come June 30th. this will no longer be possible.

A change is coming for users that access Hotmail with Outlook Express. Outlook Express uses a protocol called

By Sunshine in News
April 18th, 2008 at 8:05 pm

New search.live.com homepage

glyph New elements of Live Search continue to roll out, the latest at http://search.live.com.  After an email notification this afternoon regarding a new page at my.live.com (which doesn’t seem to be live yet), where the personalized pages first started by …

By Kip Kniskern in News
April 18th, 2008 at 3:49 pm