Will Windows Live Photo Gallery allow publish to Flickr?

One of the nice features of the new Windows Live Photo Gallery beta is its ability to publish photos directly to Spaces.  However users have been asking for the ability to publish photos to other services (such as Flickr), much like …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 13th, 2007 at 2:27 pm

Windows Live / MSN Messenger to force security upgrade

Anand, a Security PM for Windows Live Messenger, posted tonight on the Inside Windows Live Messenger blog that rolling out in the next few weeks, if you haven’t already upgraded your Messenger to at least 8.1 (the current version released …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 13th, 2007 at 1:39 pm

Live Maps: Create a collection, help the team

Steve Lombardi posted today on the Virtual Earth / Live Maps blog with a request for help:

For our next release we have some pretty neat Collection enhancements coming and could use your help right now in preparation. Helping is

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 12th, 2007 at 1:58 pm

New LifeCams announced; Photo Swap available for all LifeCams

LifeCam vx 7000

Microsoft today announces two new LifeCams, webcams built for use with Windows Live Messenger.  A desktop model, the VX 7000, pictured above, features:

a 2.0 megapixel sensor to deliver High Definition video (2.0 MP) and still photography (7.6 MP

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
September 12th, 2007 at 2:53 am

Live Search 2.0 discussions continue

At the company meeting last week, the new Live Search 2.0 was demoed and has since received rave reviews from Microsoft employees (yes even mini). Sean Earp’s impresions were picked up by Scoble, with relevance still seeming to be the …

By Chris in News
September 10th, 2007 at 11:59 pm

Sinofsky shows LiveSide some love

 

It’s a pretty well known fact that Steven Sinofsky, SVP for Windows and Windows Live, has set a precedent of being tight-lipped at Windows Live when it comes to talking to bloggers.  Well, that’s why we were pleasantly …

By Harrison Hoffman in News
September 8th, 2007 at 4:43 pm

Notes on the Company Meeting

The Microsoft Company Meeting was held on Wednesday (Sept 5) in Seattle, and along with paper airplane throwing, BillG’s last company meeting, some stuff about busses, and the waving around of a phantom Zune, there was some interesting Windows Live …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 8th, 2007 at 3:15 pm

LiveSide Stickers: Sharing the Love

I have really been having a lot of fun with this sticker giveaway thing, thanks everyone for participating, and remember you can send in a link to a picture and a note and we’ll put it up on our map.…

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 8th, 2007 at 1:41 pm

Microsoft holds Search PR event on September 26th to announce Search 2.0

Following on from the PR escapades of this week, it seems as though Microsoft are at it again, this time with Live Search. An invite only event called Searchification is taking place at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus on …

By Chris in Featured News
September 8th, 2007 at 7:55 am

Windows Live Translator

Darren Straight has been snooping around some Windows Live Translator domain names, and today, for the first time, the Windows Live Translator beta site is live.  According to Darren, the following urls are now working:

We haven’t …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 8th, 2007 at 5:17 am