Windows Live Writer update available

There’s an update available for Windows Live Writer. This update, KB 951125, fixes the following 4 problems:

An error occurs when you publish a post that contains images to Blogger:
Because of a change in the Picasa image-hosting

By Sunshine in News
April 9th, 2008 at 6:27 pm

Red Dog: Ray Ozzie’s answer to the Google App Engine?

051504CliffordBigRedDog (Note: while we’ve been serving up a number of potential new Windows Live logos recently, this isn’t one of them.  I just happen to like Clifford the Big Red Dog)

Much has been made recently about last night’s …

By Kip Kniskern in News
April 9th, 2008 at 1:09 pm

A new logo for Windows Live Groups?

A few days ago we found the logo for Live Mesh, today our friends over at LiveSino found a new logo for the long-delayed Windows Live Groups. Here’s what it looks like:

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It seems like Microsoft has changed the …

By damaster in News
April 8th, 2008 at 3:00 pm

Microsoft and Yahoo! sites compared: a quick look at the numbers

With all the talk about Microsoft’s attempted acquisition of Yahoo!, and with a little help from Nielsen Online, we thought we’d make a quick comparison of some of the main features of both services.  I asked Nielsen if they …

By Kip Kniskern in News
April 8th, 2008 at 2:28 pm

Windows Live for Windows Mobile (G2) now available from Microsoft

Jason Landridge posted today that a link is available for the first time from Microsoft if you want to install Windows Live for Windows Mobile (known also as “G2”),  on your Windows Mobile 6 device.

Up until now, it depended …

By Kip Kniskern in News
April 8th, 2008 at 10:35 am

Yahoo! responds to Ballmer, believes offer is too low

In response to a letter to the Yahoo! Board of Directors on Saturday, Jerry Yang and the Board responded this morning with a letter of their own, again rejecting the Microsoft offer as too low, although stating publicly for …

By Kip Kniskern in News
April 7th, 2008 at 11:45 pm

Perspectives: James Hamilton on containers, condos, and the cloud

When we introduced you to Windows Live Core (now Windows Live Platform Services) just over a year ago, we mentioned James Hamilton and his work on commoditizing server installations, in particular by using containers.  Well here we are a year …

By Kip Kniskern in Opinion
April 7th, 2008 at 7:47 am

Microsoft to demo Mesh at Web 2.0 Expo

Mary-Jo Foley spotted that Microsoft are set to give a Live Mesh demo presentation during the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo conference at the end of April. Running from April 22nd-24th, Amit Mital the “General Manager of Live Mesh” is leading …

By Chris in Featured News
April 7th, 2008 at 6:10 am

New Compete.com search share numbers show surprising surge for Live Search

Compete.com released their version of March US search market share numbers on Friday, showing a surprising surge for Live Search, up nearly 4 percentage points from February (a notoriously slow, and short, month), and up .7% year over year.  …

By Kip Kniskern in News
April 5th, 2008 at 2:49 pm

The Gig’s up: MSFT to YHOO: 3 weeks or we come and get you

Where there’s smoke, there’s bound to be fire, and yesterday’s leaked warning shots across Jerry Yang’s bow resulted in a letter today from Steve Ballmer to Yahoo!, saying in effect: take the offer we have on the table, …

By Kip Kniskern in News
April 5th, 2008 at 4:33 am