Windows Live Messenger Build 8.0.0812 Released

WLMessenger new icon.gifIt's been less than two months since the final release of Windows Live Messenger, and already it is reported that a new build was released last night. But as of yet there's been no official word as to what the …

By Darren Straight in News
August 9th, 2006 at 6:14 pm

Windows Live Mail Desktop beta refresh

WLMail new icon.gifBrandon LeBlanc points to the newest build of Windows Live Mail desktop beta, version 8.0.0932, released tonight. This is a major cleanup and upgrade to Live Mail desktop, and it looks and feels very much improved. You can sign …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 9th, 2006 at 6:39 am

Some notes on Spaces problems

Spaces icon.gifSpaces faced a bunch of problems when it launched last week, and many of them were fixed within a few hours or days. How much of a continuing problem are the bugs in Spaces though? A quick review of the …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 8th, 2006 at 10:15 pm

RSS Wizard, Niall Kennedy, Leaves Windows Live

Back in April when word came down that Niall Kennedy, of Technorati, would be joining Windows Live, I don't think there was a person that wasn't excited at the big news. Niall was a great asset to Microsoft and …

By Harrison Hoffman in News
August 8th, 2006 at 6:23 am

Unofficial Windows Live Messenger FAQ Updated

WLMessenger new icon.gifJust a quick little note on this slow weekend. Our good friend Scott Lovegrove has updated his unofficial Windows Live Messenger FAQ to include support for French, German, Dutch, and Chinese speaking users. If you have not checked out his …

By Harrison Hoffman in News
August 6th, 2006 at 1:13 am

LiveSide is your Friend!

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We thought it might be fun to play around with the new friends feature on Windows Live Spaces, and so we've set up a site WindowsLiveSide for you to add to your friends list. Don't know exactly where we'll take …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 5th, 2006 at 8:53 pm

Some notes on Windows Live Spaces

Spaces icon.gifWell nobody expected switching 120 million users over to Windows Live Spaces to go off without a hitch, did they? Things seem to have calmed down somewhat, leave a comment if you're still having problems. And now that Spaces seems …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 4th, 2006 at 9:19 am

Windows Live Spaces Tour, Part 2: Gadgets

Spaces icon.gifWith Spaces being released yesterday (not without a few glitches), we continue to take a look at the new features with Part 2 of the audio tour, this time with Jay Fluegel on Gadgets. Definitely a program in …

By Kip Kniskern in Interviews
August 3rd, 2006 at 8:20 am

Windows Live Spaces is Live!

Spaces icon.gifThe title says it all Windows Live Spaces is now Live!

Check it out at: http://spaces.live.com/

Note however that it's still a little bit slow as it's still being rolled out around the world, so if you find your Live …

By Darren Straight in News
August 1st, 2006 at 1:44 am

More Mobile on the way

WLMobile icon.gifRecently I got a demo of some upcoming Windows Live Mobile applications, one of which, the Live Local mobile application, has just been updated and is available for public download.

As with G2, the new mobile Messenger client for smartphones

By Chris in News
July 30th, 2006 at 7:39 pm