Have you gone Mobile?

Within the numerous updates last night of Live.com and Live Search launching came a not insignificant revamp of the Live Mobile services, including: 

 – A beta mobile version of live.com is now available, something which got us excited a while back…

By Chris in News
September 13th, 2006 at 7:15 am

Microsoft announces new Windows Live hardware

Microsoft has today announced the expansion of its Windows Live hardware line, both with the new range of voip headsets (LifeChat) and a wider range of webcams (LifeCam). 

 – The Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000 will be widely available in November 2006 …

By Chris in News
September 13th, 2006 at 5:20 am

Live.com, Windows Live Search, and Windows Live Mobile Launched

 

Today Microsoft announced the official launch of three Windows Live services, Live.com, Windows Live Search, and Windows Live Mobile.
Windows Live Search, will by Thursday become the search engine for MSN, according to Ken Moss in the Live Search

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 12th, 2006 at 4:21 pm

Oh yeah, and Virtual Earth, too

Windows Live Local, “powered by” Virtual Earth, has come out of beta, too.  Looking quite polished, with Bird’s Eye Views added for many cities (take a look at the collection, thanks to the Virtual Earth blog) , Live …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 12th, 2006 at 3:29 pm

Welcome to LiveSide, ummm, 2.0

Well if you're reading this you've made it to our new site!  We have just made the switch to Windows Server 2003/Community Server, and we're excited about it, even though it's been a lot of work migrating over.

With a …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 10th, 2006 at 10:39 pm

LiveSide update

We're currently updating the site, and will post more details on the changes later. Existing users can login with their old accounts once they have reset their password.

Password reset

By Chris in News
September 10th, 2006 at 8:59 pm

Updating the news on updates

As we said, both code-name Max and Live.com released updates on Friday.  Max added RSS and ATOM feed reading to the photo sharing and more to come product, as well as support for the .Net Framework 3.0 rc1. You can …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 10th, 2006 at 3:02 pm

Messenger 8.1 Beta released to testers

Word is out that Messenger 8.1 is up on Connect for the testers, mostly Windows Live Butterflys, who have been accepted into the program, some 1689 testers, Mess.be is reporting, although many more are “pending”. 

JCXP reports that roaming has …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 8th, 2006 at 3:13 pm

Microsoft Max to upgrade

Microsoft codename Max, the photo organizer/feed reader that is really going to be more about storing, organizing, and sharing content of all types, is about to upgrade, according to their blog:

Over the next few hours, we’ll be upgrading

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 8th, 2006 at 11:05 am

Warhol to become MSN Soapbox

In a somewhat surprising move, the upcoming Microsoft video upload site, codenamed Warhol, currently running under the "final" name Soapbox, will be not fall under the Windows Live brand.

Although the site is still in internal beta at http://soapbox.msn.com, here's …

By Chris in News
September 7th, 2006 at 6:04 am