Spaces site unavailable after the upgrade? Here’s the workaround

Our new friend Belem, a Chinese Spaces MVP from Beijing, alerted us tonight to a workaround to an annoying little problem for a select few Spaces users, which has appeared after the “M2” update.  Apparently a number of users …

By Kip Kniskern in News
July 23rd, 2007 at 12:40 pm

A sneak peek at Gatineau, Microsoft’s web analytics tool

Gatineau, Microsoft’s web analytics tool, looks like it is getting close to seeing the light of day.  Apparently after an adChamps briefing in London, an attendee, Dave Naylor, got hold of some Gatineau screenshots and posted them.  Then Ian

By Kip Kniskern in News
July 23rd, 2007 at 2:50 am

Windows Live at MGX

With all the fuss about a “leaked” powerpoint from the MGX conference (that gives a tentative date for Windows 7 of 2010,) you’d be forgiven for missing the few points made relating to Windows Live. Here’s a couple of blog posts …

By Chris in News
July 22nd, 2007 at 4:50 am

Microsoft’s Fourth Quarter Earnings Report is out: Big spending for Online Services

The big news today is that Microsoft released their Fourth Quarter Earnings Report.  Well, that report brought some interesting news from the Online Services Group.  According to the report, the Online Services Group, which includes Windows Live, lost 732 …

By Harrison Hoffman in News
July 20th, 2007 at 7:20 am

More Information On the Spaces Update [Even More Info Added]

The Spaces update has started rolling out now so I thought I would take this time to just go through a few of the new changes, showing what’s new.

New Home Page and the New Windows Live Bar

I made …

By kip in News
July 19th, 2007 at 7:56 pm

@live Address Registration – part 42 [Does not work now]

Update: This method does not work now. We’ll keep you posted on when they become available again.

Last week we briefly saw the @live.com registration open for an hour and just as quickly got closed. Unfortunately, at that time, a …

By kip in News
July 19th, 2007 at 4:30 pm

Spaces Gets A Slight Update

image Windows Live Spaces just released is releasing tonight a small update to their popular blogging and social networking service. The update includes the following features:

  • Broader availability – jumping from 34 markets to 42
  • Birthday notifications option on your Live
By kip in News
July 19th, 2007 at 2:36 pm

MSN and Farecast.com Launch Free Airfare Predictions, Planning Tools

MSN and Farecast.com, the airfare prediction Web site, have today announced an agreement in which MSN will offer its users free airfare predictions and planning tools on the MSN Travel Channel. The addition of Farecast’s innovative technology and planning …

By Darren Straight in News
July 18th, 2007 at 7:40 am

JiWire to provide advertisers for Microsoft municipal wifi

Last year Microsoft announced its intention to get into the municipal wifi market, which for those non-Americans is free public wifi for entire towns and cities. These networks are currently being built and tested by MetroFi in Portland and Oakland, …

By Chris in News
July 18th, 2007 at 4:20 am

Migration from MSN to Windows Live Hotmail begins this week in the Netherlands

After the wordwide launch of Windows Live Hotmail at the beginning of June, migration of MSN Hotmail users over to the new platform is set to begin this week. Using the Netherlands as the first test market, the remaining MSN Hotmail users …

By Chris in News
July 18th, 2007 at 3:27 am