A few days ago Kip posted about a temporary update to Live Search, with the new thin UI. Well the new version is back for the moment, so I thought I’d take the chance to highlight it again in …
Windows Live Spaces loses 15% of unique visitors in US over the last year
According to some new numbers included in an email from Nielsen Online today, Windows Live Spaces, never a big player in the US market for social networking tools, lost significant ground over the past year.
…Nielsen Online provides February’s top
Windows Live Messenger Web Controls – Part 2
Hopefully you will have read and followed the code from the first part of this article. The first part covered most of base functionality including how to sign in, get the users details and get their contact list. What is …
Windows Live Messenger Web Controls – Part 1
The Windows Live team have been busy over the past few months and recently launched the Windows Live Messenger APIs. This is basically split over three parts, the IM Control, the Windows Live Presence API and the Windows Live …
Executive leaves Microsoft for ad company
Microsoft executive Joanne Bradford (Corporate Vice President, chief Media Officer, MSN), is leaving Microsoft to join Spot Runner Inc.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, Spot Runner develops technology solutions that revolutionize the way advertising is created, targeted, bought and sold. The …
Read and Write Chinese? Win cool prizes!
Our friends at LiveSino.net, through their new Windows Live Community forums and in association with MSN China, are running a competition:
…Hello again, I am Picturepan2 Yan. I would like to announce a Competition now – there’s a new competition
New look for Live Search? Has Rome arrived?
UPDATE #2: Looks like this must have been just a test, as the new UI isn’t available anymore. Since it only worked in IE7, and not IE8 or Firefox, probably a good indication that there’s still work left to do.…
JSLint adds supports for Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets
You’ve heard me stress in the past the importance of writing good JavaScript, especially when it comes to the complex code that makeup a Windows Vista Sidebar gadget. You’ve also heard me preach that you should always lint your code…
Microsoft churning out the Ozzie + Mesh PR, so nobody talks about Horizon
In case you haven’t been following the Microsoft PR Mix08 tour bus, here’s the numerous stops they’ve been making on the subject of Ray Ozzie and Mesh:
- The FT churns out a great piece, which you could be forgiven
Windows Live FolderShare Gets Updated (ish)
The Windows Live FolderShare team blog has today announced a new FolderShare. So what’s new with it? Well…. Not much! In fact, I could say the update includes the following:
…• A new website designed to makes managing your
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