Its been almost a year since we first mentioned Windows Live Core, the project lead by Ray Ozzie to establish Microsoft’s software as a service platform and not much has been said since then. Microsoft hasn’t acknowledged its existance, despite the …
Microsoft reports 30% growth in revenue – Online Services with $1.1bn of costs in Q2
Microsoft just announced its financial results for the last quarter, with record figures being given for the company as a whole. Overall its 30% revenue growth that’s the big gain, giving record second quarter results and this coming straight …
Insert IMMe Link Plugin
In a recent post Angus Logan talks about adding someone else’s online presence as a link in a blog entry when you’re referring to them (it’s worth making a note how he gets the CID, as his example uses LiveSide …
The Traffic Gadget is Back!
OK, it’s formally called the Live Search Maps gadget, but that’s a mouthful so most people simply call it the "traffic gadget". The traffic gadget was taken off the market for a few months for "security reasons" (not unlike like …
Anonymous MSBob reveals more on Windows 7 and Windows Live – Long Zheng
Our friend Long Zheng, at istartedsomething, received an interesting and long comment on his Windows 7 post yesterday. While of course we can’t confirm that MSBob actually is an insider, what he says from what we can tell is …
Microsoft to join DataPortability.org
Word is filtering out this morning that Microsoft, along with recent additions Google, Facebook, and Plaxo, will be joining the DataPortability.Org working group, represented by Windows Live Platform Corporate Vice President David Treadwell. DataPortability.Org seeks to allow data sharing …
Windows 7 details emerge – look Software + Services
Right now everyone is getting excited over the apparent distribution of early Windows 7 builds to external Microsoft partners. One poster over at Neowin is claiming to have installed the build and while unsurprisingly its difficult to verify this, judging …
Comparing Search numbers
Nielsen/Netratings just released its search share numbers for December 07, completing a year’s worth of search numbers from each of the three companies that report them; Compete, Nielsen/Netratings, and Hitwise. So what can we learn from all …
Mr. Softie goes online – will “strong arm” business tactics work with Web 2.0?
Fortune Magazine’s blog post "The hard side of Mr. Softie", where some old school strong arm tactics are ascribed to Microsoft in trying to get startup Web 2.0 companies to use Windows Live Messenger is interesting in a …
Microsoft to buy Limelight? asks Blodget
According to Henry Blodget at Silicon Alley Insider, he’s hearing more rumors that Microsoft is poised to buy Limelight Networks, a CDN (content delivery network) from which Microsoft recently licensed technology, apparently to build their own …
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