Weather Central implements Microsoft Virtual Earth

Weather Central a provider of state-of-the-art broadcast weather solutions, has today announced a strategic alliance with Microsoft. The alliance integrates worldwide aerial, satellite imagery and mapping technology provided by Microsoft Virtual Earth into Weather Central’s 3D interactive software applications …

By Darren Straight in News
September 8th, 2007 at 3:21 am

Cleaner, Faster: First impressions of “Windows Live 2008”

Well it’s taken a while to get here, but it looks like Windows Live is becoming a better defined and somewhat unified set of services.  Of course there’s still a lot of work left to do, but today’s debut of …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
September 6th, 2007 at 1:51 pm

64 Bit Systems And The New Live Installer: A Solution

It has been discovered since the launch of the Live Installer yesterday that there is an apparent bug that prevents it from being installed on 64 bit systems. Now the programs themselves will run on x64 systems, it’s the installer …

By kip in News
September 6th, 2007 at 1:37 am

Windows Live Suite announced – Update

The Windows Live Wire blog this morning published an entry from Chris Jones, Vice President, Windows Live Team, announcing the Windows Live suite.

Included in the suite, which will allow for a single installation of any or all of these …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
September 5th, 2007 at 2:06 am

I love Fake Steve Jobs

OK the truth is I really wanted to rip the NY Times article for what it was, a PR hack job.  An embarrassingly bad PR hack job, at that.  But then first of all I’m only some guy who’s been …

By Kip Kniskern in Opinion
September 4th, 2007 at 8:06 am

Windows Live Installer to be released this week, says the NY Times

In an article appearing in the Sunday Sept 2 version of the online NY Times, with a publish date of Sept. 3, John Markoff of the NY Times reports that Microsoft is prepared to release it’s software “suite” this week…

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
September 3rd, 2007 at 1:21 pm

Local Boy Does Good

Our own Scott Lovegrove, or ScottIsaFool, was recognized on Friday by the Writer Zone, the blog of Windows Live Writer:

I wanted to send out a little love out to Scott Lovegrove (http://scottisafool.spaces.live.com/) on behalf of the

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By Kip Kniskern in News
September 3rd, 2007 at 10:09 am

Windows Live Interactive SDKs

If you want to get a start with some of the Windows Live SDKs, then it can be a daunting task. You could try looking for tutorials on the chosen SDK, or look at the examples that usually come with …

By kip in Developer
September 1st, 2007 at 7:04 am

Spaces offers new photo features

The Space Craft posted tonight on some new features for Spaces photos (thanks, Brandon!):

High resolution photo upload,

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and photo printing by HP Snapfish.

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Now you can upload “hi resolution ” photos by selecting “optimize photos for …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 31st, 2007 at 4:50 pm

A Silly Pledge for a Good Cause

As you might expect, I read a lot of blogs, and the other night I just happened to come across an entry in Steve Kafka’s blog on an unusual endeavor by some ‘Softies in Mountain View.  Apparently in the classic …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 28th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
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