Reports are coming in about an update coming through Windows Updates for the Windows Live Photo Gallery, updating to Beta 2. I’m not seeing it as yet (Update: I had to “check for updates”, as OneCare won’t let me have …
What’s the deal with Windows Live Home?
Or more precisely, why are there so many Windows Live home pages? A blog post on Windows Live Wire the other day announced:
…As you probably know by now, Windows Live Home is the central page for Windows Live on
Program to Windows Live Events? The Create Events API
Rob Dolin, a Program Manager on the Spaces team, posts tonite with an example of a programmatically created Windows Live Event:
…API Details
The link should have taken you to an event create page with all of the specified parameters
Virtual Earth SDK 6 Released
The Virtual Earth blog today announced the release of version 6 of its VE SDK. The new SDK is available online on MSDN as well as the interactive SDK on http://dev.live.com/. To get the new version, all you need …
Live Maps with Virtual Earth 3D – what fun!
Lots of goodness with the new 3D features of Live Maps – one thing to see it on a big screen at Searchification but a whole ‘nother world to be able to play with it in real time.
Unlike some …
Microsoft announces Live Call 411, Live Maps 3D improvements, more
In a press release issued today, Microsoft announced the “final updates to the fall release of its Live Search service” (most of which was at least mentioned at Searchification). The new stuff, condensed from the press release:
Maps and …
Live Maps to incorporate Birds Eye view into 3D maps
We’ve mentioned the incorporation of Birds Eye view into Live Maps 3D before, but it’s a little hard to describe without actually seeing it. Looks live someone posted a video to YouTube though, that shows off the new technology. …
New at Virtual Earth: A new SDK including 3D Map Control; New Bird’s Eye Imagery; and more to come
From Bink.nu: A new SDK is available for Virtual Earth, and includes support for using 3D Maps in 3rd party map applications. From the SDK:
…3D Maps
The Virtual Earth map control now supports 3D maps. This is
Windows Live announcements: Windows Live Events launched; SkyDrive goes to 1GB – Our interview with David Fortin
Windows Live Events, set to launch at the time of this posting, 5pm PDT (Redmond time), is a new feature of Windows Live Spaces that makes it easy to create, manage, and share events using Windows Live Spaces. Here …
Windows Live SkyDrive beta update brings minor but convenient changes
Today the Windows Live SkyDrive team released an updated version of the SkyDrive online storage service. While the service stays in beta for now this release incorporates several minor but very convenient changes that are detailed in their team blog…
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