Live Earth On Demand Clips Now Available

image Did you miss any of the action over the weekend from Live Earth? Don’t want to watch the whole performance to see just one artist? Well now you can choose what artist’s set list you want to watch, when you …

By kip in News
July 9th, 2007 at 11:58 pm

Microsoft to extend social networking with Windows Live Events

Rolling straight on from Windows Live Folders and Photo Gallery it looks like the Windows Live teams have yet another new service up their sleeves. Windows Live Events looks set to fill a gap in the current Windows Live portfolio, …

By Chris in News
July 9th, 2007 at 6:51 am

Live Gallery Gets A Makeover

As we have mentioned, there is a new look for the next wave of Live products and services that we have seen with Messenger, Writer and Mail, mainly with the removal of the flair. Well, today Live Gallery gets the …

By kip in News
July 8th, 2007 at 5:56 am

Live Earth concerts this weekend

Just in case you missed it, the Live Earth concerts take place this weekend to highlight climate change. If you didn’t manage to get a ticket, you can watch the concerts online at http://liveearth.msn.com/ both during the performances and afterwards. …

By Chris in News
July 6th, 2007 at 3:30 pm

Windows Live ID – Part 2 – Membership Provider

In the first part of this article I explained how to integrate Windows Live ID into your own web site, how to call it and what information it returned and how to access that information.

Now that is all fine …

By Hackersoft in Developer
July 6th, 2007 at 3:10 am

Virtual Earth: 26 Terabyte update; includes new 3d and “hill shaded”

Congrats to the Virtual Earth team for publishing 26 terabytes of updates, on time for their “July publish” (1 terabyte = 1024 gb).  That’s just a big impressive number, wow.

The new updates include a new feature, called “hill …

By Kip Kniskern in News
July 6th, 2007 at 1:29 am

Windows Live OneCare 2.0 beta almost here

In an email sent to Windows Live OneCare testers, Microsoft confirmed the imminent start of the OneCare 2.0 beta program. Designated as a “pre-premiere”, OneCare 2.0 will not be available as a public beta initially.

New features we should be seeing …

By Chris in News
July 4th, 2007 at 10:00 pm

MSN is coming to Russia

Kommersant.com announced yesterday that MSN will be taking aim at yet another market.  This time, they are focused on Russia.  According to the article, the content for MSN Russia will be provided by Kommersant, Reuters, and the AP.  Geoff Sutton, …

By Harrison Hoffman in News
July 3rd, 2007 at 4:44 am

CardSpace (InfoCard) and Live ID

Running Windows Vista? Noticed the Windows CardSpace applet in the Vista control panel but not sure what its for? That may soon change if Windows Live ID provides CardSpace integration.

Formerly called InfoCard, CardSpace integration with Windows Live was discussed back in March

By Chris in News
July 2nd, 2007 at 5:41 am

Folders beta closed, for now

The Windows Live Folders beta opened up yesterday, and contrary to what we understood, was simply open to the first 5,000 users to get there, with a slight caveat of changing your locale to en-us.  That explains why many of …

By Kip Kniskern in News
June 28th, 2007 at 1:58 am