Microsoft’s lack of sticking to standards rears it’s ugly head again

I was going to do a short article on how easy it is to extract information and generally mess around with Windows Live Spaces blog posts in your code using LINQ, however due to Microsoft’s lack of sticking to standards, …

By Hackersoft in Developer
February 26th, 2008 at 7:20 am

Live Services problems reported: LiveID, Messenger, Mail are down for some

Apparently a fairly widespread disruption in some/all LiveID and Live services has been occuring for a good part of the morning (GMT-8).  We don’t know more at this point except to say Messenger had issues signing in here, as did …

By Kip Kniskern in News
February 26th, 2008 at 2:53 am

Windows Mobile Developer Center Renewed

The Windows Mobile Developer Center has been renewed. First of all you’ll notice there are 4 big boxes delivering the latest articles per category:

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Beside those boxes, on the top right, you’ll find “Getting Started with Windows Mobile”. There you …

By Sunshine in News
February 25th, 2008 at 12:04 am

New Outlook Connector in the works with Calendar synch for all

At the start of the year there was some discussion around whether MSN Premium offered good value for money in light of all these new and free Windows Live services. While we still think its great if you want several ad …

By Chris in Featured News
February 24th, 2008 at 7:10 am

Re-branding Microsoft

In our conversation with Bill Gates at Mix n Mash last December, Jonathon Snook opened up a can of worms by asking Gates about Microsoft and innovation:

Jonathan Snook: There’s a myth that Microsoft doesn’t innovate. How do you

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By Kip Kniskern in Opinion
February 24th, 2008 at 4:26 am

Microsoft moves towards IE8 beta

Looks like Microsoft is ramping up the teasers for Mix08. Activewin just posted the text from a Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft Connect invitation email.

“Greetings from the Internet Explorer Team! We are nearing the launch of Windows Internet Explorer 8

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By Chris in News
February 23rd, 2008 at 1:51 am

Windows Live Messenger, the “Installer”, and XP64bit, so what’s the deal here?

Yesterday, another one of our favorite but seemingly long lost Windows Live blogs, Inside Windows Live Messenger, posted (first time since Dec. 5, woohoo!) an announcement that version 8.5 of Windows Live Messenger is to be pushed out to …

By Kip Kniskern in Opinion
February 21st, 2008 at 5:18 pm

SkyDrive, at 5gb, officially out of Beta, and offered in 38 countries

We just posted on what we had noticed about an increase for SkyDrive storage to 5gb, and we’re pleasantly surprised that the SkyDrive team has just posted on their blog, announcing that indeed, SkyDrive is now at 5gb, that it’s …

By Kip Kniskern in News
February 21st, 2008 at 3:31 am

Windows Live SkyDrive to offer 5gb free storage?

Thanks to tipster (tips*at*liveside*dot*net) Liam, it looks like we’re about to see a significant upgrade to the online storage feature from Windows Live, SkyDrive, to 5gb free:

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We’ve called for an increase in the storage capacity, if only to …

By Kip Kniskern in News
February 21st, 2008 at 2:52 am

comScore posts January 2008 search share numbers, Yahoo takes a hit

 

comScore just posted their search share numbers for January 2008 and it’s bad news for Yahoo.  Yahoo took a 0.7% hit, while Google got a small 0.1% bump.  Windows Live remained the same as last month, so there is …

By Harrison Hoffman in News
February 21st, 2008 at 2:00 am
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