It’s been a little over a year since the Windows Live initiative was announced, in November 2005, and a year since we started LiveSide. Harrison has looked back on what the first year was like – lots of name changes, …
Windows Live OneCare winners
Here’s the list of winners of our recent Windows Live OneCare competition. If you could email me, I’ll sort you out with your subscription.
Life Invasion
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Jordan M’s Blog
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Again thanks to the …
Windows Live: Where it started, where we’ve been, and where we are now
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Hitwise Research Director Leann Prescott has posted the first real stats we’ve seen on question and answer site market share, and although Windows Live QnA is in third place, Yahoo! Answers is far ahead in the race with 96.1% US …
Windows Live Mail Plus to offer 4GB storage
As more Windows Live services launch out of beta in the next few months, one of the unanswered questions still remains around premium subscribers. Some good news for Hotmail Plus users comes in the form of Windows Live Mail Plus, …
New support site – Windows Live Help Community
Over the last week a new Windows Live Help Community site has rolled out, aiming to provide support for Windows Live services and products. Users can ask and answer questions, as well as sharing their experiences and feedback on the …
Windows Live Search “Dead”? Not yet.
It seems as though the headlines for the monthly search engine reports are getting worse and worse for Windows Live. Last week had the Guardian technology blog proclaim Windows Live Search could be renamed Dead Search . While nobody would say that …
Virtual Earth adds five new 3D cities and Italy imagery
The Map Room is reporting that 3D imagery for five new cities has been added to Virtual Earth. The new cities include the following: 
– Minneapolis – St. Paul, MN
– Tacoma, WA
– Sacramento, CA
– Various L.A. …
Windows Live Contact Cards
The folks over at Windows Live have recently released an update for the Contact Cards API to v0.2 (see dev.live.com for details).
What is a contact card?
A contact card (or perhaps cards) is really the list of all …
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