Windows Live Writer snippets

While the news on Writer has been pretty quiet recently, here’s two items that caught our attention.

The German Live Writer community got a look at one of the internal Live writer builds and kindly shared what they saw. Though the …

By Chris in News
February 4th, 2007 at 9:54 pm

MSN Weather gets Windows Vista 3D tabbing

As part of the changes going on at MSN, a new addtion to the weather portal is promoting Windows Vista’s new 3D-tab experience.

 

Over at the weather maps page, this Windows Vista advertising graphic is on the right hand side of …

By Chris in News
February 4th, 2007 at 8:51 pm

Live Maps traffic gadget for Windows Vista sidebar

For those of you running Windows Vista, a new sidebar gadget is soon to be released that displays Live Maps traffic data on your desktop. Featuring the standard Maps features such as panning and zooming, this is a must-have if …

By Chris in News
February 4th, 2007 at 3:21 am

MSN Revival – MSN Music gets the new UI

Following on from our post last week regarding the MSN revamp project known as “The January Effect“, the first results from that are beginning to show. MSN Music and the other MSN Entertainment pages have been silently upgraded to …

By Chris in News
February 3rd, 2007 at 9:16 pm

Windows Live ID SDK (Alpha)

Brian Kramp today announced the availablitiy of the Windows Live ID SDKs in its alpha version. The Windows Live ID SDK basically means that you can add the security and ease of Windows Live into your own applications. If you …

By kip in Developer
February 2nd, 2007 at 5:14 am

Vista: Launched

For those of you living under a rock, Windows Vista has been officially released as of today, January 30th.  Bill Gates announced the launch of Vista at an event in New York City today, with the help of the …

By Harrison Hoffman in News
January 30th, 2007 at 3:26 pm

Windows Live Messenger 8.1

Yes the beta has drawn to a close and Windows Live Messenger 8.1 is now available. Nice work by Dwergs in getting the English download link, no doubt he’ll be posting the other language builds shortly.

Download Windows Live Messenger …

By Chris in News
January 29th, 2007 at 6:10 am

Some notes on Spaces version 11.01

Spaces launched a new build last week, notably with the ability to embed videos.  But there’s quite a bit new under the hood, too.  Jason Antonelli of the Spaces team posted on his blog about some of the new …

By Kip Kniskern in News
January 28th, 2007 at 4:02 am

MSN Revival – The January Effect

With the announcement of Windows Live in November 2005, and the transition of most existing services to the new brand in the first half of last year, the future of MSN appeared somewhat bleak. Since he was hired away from Ask.com …

By Chris in News
January 28th, 2007 at 3:15 am

“Bungled branding” of Live services has hurt Microsoft, CNet News.com reports

In an article following the release of Microsoft’s First Quarter Earnings Report, CNET News.com reports that “Microsoft’s Live branding has been tremendously confusing and has hurt the company”.  According to the article:

“While Microsoft doesn’t break out the financial figures

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By Kip Kniskern in News
January 27th, 2007 at 2:31 am
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