Some seemingly non-news coming out of the Wall Street Journal tonight, saying that Google is readying their online storage product, commonly referred to as GDrive. The Journal doesn’t offer any really new information, saying only in the publicly accessible copy:…
An easy way to add friends – Invite2Messenger
Today, Microsoft Netherlands released Invite2Messenger which allows new Windows Live Messenger users to send out invitations to their contacts from Hotmail, Outlook, Outlook Express, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail. Existing Messenger users can also use the website if they have a …
MSN Video share surges – Soapbox and Live Search doing well?
In the latest Compete traffic rankings for video services released today, MSN Video shows a marked improvement in October compared to September. Visits were up 25.3% to 35m, giving it almost 9% of the video market in 2nd place. In …
Live.com – announcing “Ultimate” improvements?
Conspicuously missing from all the wave 2 upgrades and marketing for the new look Windows Live has been Live.com, the one time personalized home page of the future. Once the golden child of Windows Live, touted as the …
Yet another Microsoft datacenter – From Russia with love
If the internet were a battleground, then datacenters would be the nuclear missile silos. (I guess that also makes developers the cannonfodder!) According to Russian news site CNews, Microsoft has announced plans to build its first Russian datacenter in Irkutsk, …
Windows Live Tools and Visual Studio 2008 RTM
Kevin over at http://dev.live.com has posted about a slight tweak that’s needed for using the Windows Live Tools with the recently released Visual Studio 2008.
…Known Issue: When using the current Windows Live Tools release with the Visual Studio 2008
Why the Messenger v9 post was removed
So we took down the Messenger v9 post which we just made. If you missed it, it contained the feature list for the build which was made available to some testers earlier today, after the invites were sent out last …
Microsoft sends out Windows Live Messenger 9.0 beta invites
No sooner has the Windows Live Wave 2 suite been released than the first Wave 3 beta begins – Windows Live Messenger v9. Unlike the betas that have just finished, the Messenger v9 beta is being run from Microsoft Connect …
Foldershare admits problems – promises improvements soon
In recent weeks those using FolderShare have had much to complain about. The service has been down more than its been up, and a quick look at FolderShare newsgroup shows that for a service such as this, 99.9% uptime is the minimum …
Windows Live Community Builder: an easy way to use Windows Live Services
We just wrote about the Windows Live services we use here at LiveSide, and Windows Live is starting to make a concerted push for organizations to make use of the same services. Harvey Sanchez, the Online Strategy Lead for Microsoft …
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