Mix08 on the radar

You can tell how close a conference is getting by how frequent the talk about “swag” is. CES and Gizmodogate – done. Some other trade show happening this week that nobody everybody is talking about – done. Next up on our …

By Chris in Featured News
January 17th, 2008 at 3:50 pm

.Net Framework 3.5 sourcecode now available

As this affects (potentially) all aspects of development on the Microsoft .Net platform, whether it be adding plugings to Windows Live Writer, writing your own websites incorporating many of the Windows Live API’s that have been published or maybe writing …

By Hackersoft in Developer
January 17th, 2008 at 1:42 pm

Customize blog entry backgrounds in Spaces

Our friend Dev Parikh of Hack MSN Spaces (congrats on the MVP award, Dev, well deserved!), along with Little Fish Big Pond, have put together a nice set of backgrounds for individual blog posts that you can download, add …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
January 16th, 2008 at 3:44 am

December search share numbers from Compete: more of the same

The latest search share numbers are in from Compete.com, showing no significant changes, although Live Search is trending slightly upward, and actually showed some gains in volume of searches.

MSN/Live continued the good fight in December and actually outpaced

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By Kip Kniskern in News
January 14th, 2008 at 1:26 pm

All Angus, All the Time: more from our favorite Microsoft Executive, this time on Eye-Fi

Angus Logan, the Senior Technical Product Manager for Windows Live Platform, last year sent out some 30,000 emails.  If our inbox is any indication, he’s looking to beat that record by a large margin this year.  However, and …

By Kip Kniskern in News
January 10th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

Office Live announces improvements across the board

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The Office Live team has just announced an number of improvements coming soon to all three flavors of Office Live: Basic, Essentials, and Premium.  "The upgrade process began January 5th and will last four to six weeks", according to the …

By Kip Kniskern in News
January 10th, 2008 at 3:16 pm

Windows Live QnA – remember them?

Hey there’s a new posting on the Windows Live QnA blog!  Except for one post with just a picture of a heart in October, there hasn’t been a post since August of last year.  Anyway, The post introduces "new" …

By Kip Kniskern in News
January 10th, 2008 at 3:02 pm

Microsoft confirms Symbian mobile messenger charges – Nothing decided yet for Windows Mobile

After today’s reports by users on MoDaCo that Windows Mobile and Symbian users were all seeing notifications informing them to sign up to a trial period for Windows Live Mobile Messenger, we’ve received a statement back from Microsoft after our …

By Chris in Featured News
January 10th, 2008 at 9:14 am

Microsoft gets ready to charge users of Windows Live Mobile Messenger [Updated]

Users of the free Windows Live Messenger client available on Windows Mobile got a shock today when they tried to log in, a notice saying “Starting today, your 30 day trial period begins”. Uh oh! So far this relates to Windows Mobile …

By Chris in News
January 9th, 2008 at 5:19 am

Send Live Search Maps info to Garmin GPS through MSN Direct

<A style="FLOAT: right; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px" href="/blogs/main/WindowsLiveWriter/SendLiveSearchMapsinfotoGarminGPSthrough_123EC/nuvi780_2.jpg" mce_src="/blogs/main/WindowsLiveWriter/SendLiveSearchMapsinfotoGarminGPSthrough_123EC/nuvi780_thumb.jpg" mce_href="/blogs/main/WindowsLiveWriter/SendLiveSearchMapsinfotoGarminGPSthrough_123EC/nuvi780_2.jpg" align="right" >nuvi780Among a number of partner announcements at CES, Garmin, Live Search Maps, and MSN Direct announced new functionality that allows Garmin GPS devices, including the new Garmin nüvi …

By Kip Kniskern in News
January 8th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
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