More Live.com goodness.

WLLive.com icon.gifAs promised, there is an update to Live.com with a new look, easier on-the-fly customization, add multiple pages and so much more. Also, Live.com can constantly update search queries for the web, news, images and feeds on the main …

By Matthew in News
August 27th, 2006 at 2:58 am

Windows Live Marketplace (Agora) to launch Monday?

A few weeks ago, Mary-Jo Foley at Microsoft watch first mentioned Agora during a roundup of the Windows Live services. It appears that Agora is the codename for the replacement for Windows Marketplace, unoriginally expected to be Windows Live …

By Chris in News
August 26th, 2006 at 11:25 pm

Motorola T31 – Windows Live Messenger phone

WLMobile icon.gifMotorola have now released details on their upcoming T31 series of cordless phones, designed to work with Windows Live Messenger. The T3153 and T3101 both support upto 6 handsets, with the only difference being a separate base

unit for the …

By Chris in News
August 26th, 2006 at 12:50 am

Hotspot Locator website launches

The Windows Live Wifi Suite blog is now public at http://nowires.spaces.live.com/, where already they have announced the Hotspot Locator website http://hotspot.live.com/. Also, if you would like to be on the client beta, you can email your Windows Live ID to …

By Chris in News
August 25th, 2006 at 11:04 pm

Windows Live Essentials

Windows Live Essentials is an upcoming product that will be the Windows Live equivalent of the Google Pack; allowing for one-click installations as well as providing update notifications for the individual products. With a central control panel (Windows Live Dashboard) …

By Chris in News
August 25th, 2006 at 7:04 pm

News Roundup: Video Search, Live Drive, Video Publishing

From around the web, today – first Brandon at MSTechToday points out the link to the new video search capabilities of Windows Live Search. You can try out these beta features at beta.search.live.com/video/

There's also news about Live Drive coming …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 25th, 2006 at 8:58 am

Read/Write Web interviews George Moore

Richard MacManus posts an interview (today, 8/23) with George Moore, GM for Windows Live Developer Platform, who recently called Windows Live Spaces the largest blogging service on the planet, getting Robert Scoble all in a tizzy. Robert later came

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 24th, 2006 at 7:46 am

Sign Up for the Windows Live Messenger 8.1 Beta

WLMessenger new icon.gifA sign up link for the Windows Live Messenger 8.1 Beta has just appeared on Microsoft Connect. To sign up, go to Connect, click on Available Connections, then find Windows Live Messenger 8.1 and click Apply. To go straight …

By Harrison Hoffman in News
August 24th, 2006 at 2:04 am

Wifi Suite beta begins

WLMobile icon.gifBoth Microsoft-Watch and BetaNews are reporting that the Windows Live Wifi Suite beta is starting, with invitation emails being sent out in the last few days to testers.

From our original post in May outlining the main feature of this …

By Chris in News
August 23rd, 2006 at 7:12 pm

The new Ideas.live.com is up (again)

After a couple of perhaps unintentional sneak previews, the newly designed Windows Live Ideas, or ideas.live.com, is up and running. The portal to Windows Live beta projects sports the orb and the vapor of course, and what is becoming …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 22nd, 2006 at 5:51 pm