While news on the “Live Drive” front has been rather non-existant of late, there are some signs that may be about to change. A new service, Windows Live Folders beta, was recently listed on the Windows Live Feedback site, …
Playing with Spaces: send a message
So we’re playing with sending messages via Spaces, and its kinda cool!
To send a message, first (you must be signed in), hover over a profile pic somewhere in Spaces, and you’ll get an open window:
Just click on …
Lots of new stuff just added to Spaces
Some new stuff and some interesting numbers from Spaces: it’s now available in 51 countries in 25 languages, there have been 93 million spaces created since Spaces was released, and more than 111 million people a month use Spaces. More …
Playing with Spaces? Visit the LiveSide Spaces site
Just a reminder with all the new stuff to play with on Spaces, we have a LiveSide space at http://windowsliveside.spaces.live.com. Add us to your friends list, sign our Guestbook, and send us a message!
And yes we realize we …
Omniture to Measure Impact of Microsoft’s i’m Initiative
Omniture, Inc. a leading provider of online business optimization software, yesterday announced it will work with Microsoft on its new Windows Live Messenger i’m Initiative. As you may know every time a customer has a conversation using i’m, Microsoft …
Search Your Way To A New Xbox or Media Centre PC
This has been around for a couple of months now, but with the closing date set for 15th May, that leaves a final month to go in for this competition. So what is it? Well, MSN UK is running a …
Windows Live Hotmail rolls out: our interview with Omar Shahine and Ellie Powers-Boyle
Windows Live Hotmail, a completely rebuilt web based mail client set to replace MSN Hotmail, started its rollout to selected markets this week. This morning, I talked on the phone with two members of the Windows Live Hotmail team from …
Live Maps lament, and a screencast (and more)
Microsoft Developer Evangelist Peter Laudati wrote last week that Virtual Earth (Live Maps) has been virtually ignored, while the blogging bubble went ga ga over Google’s myMaps feature. Robert Scoble retorted that Live Maps Collections, while cool, is too …
Comscore search figures for March: another incremental gain for MS
Comscore has released its latest online search engine rankings for the US, and Microsoft made another incremental increase in share of online searches in the month of March. This marks the third gain after a number of months of …
Windows Live Hotmail (final) as early as this week?
Windows Live Hotmail, currently in Milestone 10 of a unique and interesting beta, is set to come out of beta as early as this week, according to a number of indications, including this post on Messenger Stuff. The …
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