Windows Live WebMessenger goes into dogfood

Beta is the new passé, and dogfood is where its at. Calendar and now WebMessenger are now both in dogfoods that are running on external urls (you have to be signed up to the internal dogfoods in order to …

By Chris in Featured News
September 19th, 2007 at 6:15 am

Microsoft releases MSN Sideguide to fund free wifi

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Recently Microsoft silently launched MSN Sideguide, a new sidebar that “enhances your browsing experience with useful and relevant information as you surf”. The sidebar can be docked at either side of the screen (multi-monitor users are out of luck

By Gregor in News
September 19th, 2007 at 3:06 am

To our RSS readers, Thanks!

Today, for the first time, we broke the 5k barrier on our little Feedburner counter:

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Now this may not seem like a big thing, but hey we’re geeks, and we’ve been watching the numbers!  We’ve been flirting with 5,000 for …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 19th, 2007 at 1:54 am

Windows Live teams up with Sprint for Mobile Search

Microsoft is set to announce the next chapter in their partnership with Sprint tomorrow.  Customers will be able to use Windows Live Search to perform location based searches, utilizing the built in GPS capabilities of Sprint phones.  I can see …

By Harrison Hoffman in News
September 18th, 2007 at 1:00 pm

New Look Live Search is live

Last week we told you about some changes coming to Live Search, including a new look.  Well as of tonite it’s live (you may have to set the live.com home page to “search only” if you have it personalized)…

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
September 18th, 2007 at 12:50 pm

New Skydrive domains hint at desktop synchronisation

The weekly domain name posts from ResourceShelf have become a useful source of information for Microsoft and Google bloggers. This week is no exception, with Windows Live Skydrive having almost 20 domains registered or transferred to Microsoft servers in the last …

By Chris in News
September 18th, 2007 at 5:59 am

Why today’s EU ruling is good for Windows Live and its users

So there is a lot of talk going on about the EU anti-competive ruling today that upholds almost the entirity of the previous EU ruling. Here’s my three point summary why this ruling has been good already for Windows Live …

By kip in Opinion
September 17th, 2007 at 4:40 am

Windows Live Platform: Interview With Danny Thorpe and Angus Logan

At MixUK this week, I got a chance to sit down with Danny Thorpe and Angus Logan who are both very much involved with the Windows Live Platform. It was an interesting chat, finding out some new information, so take …

By Chris in Interviews
September 14th, 2007 at 7:47 pm

Windows Live Wave 2 launch in November says Microsoft France

At a briefing given to French press yesterday about Microsoft’s calendar year so far, Laurent Delaporte VP for Microsoft France kindly gave the Windows Live Wave 2 launch as November 2007. This will include the following:

  • Software – Messenger 8.5,
By Chris in News
September 14th, 2007 at 8:19 am

Messenger Presence Feature – Coming Soon

MSN At Mix UK Danny Thorpe and Angus Logan gave us a first look at a new feature that’s coming soon, dubbed Messenger Presence. Users of the Web2Messenger service will already be familiar with the concept of this, as basically it …

By Matthew in News
September 13th, 2007 at 9:36 pm