Exclusive: Metro-styled Windows Live Profile website screenshots leaked, Twitter & Sina Weibo connections coming soon

LiveSide first revealed screenshots of the new Microsoft account website last week, showing the upcoming new Metro-styled theme for all Microsoft web services, as well as a rebrand of all references of “Windows Live ID” to “Microsoft account”. Today, LiveSide was able to obtain exclusive screenshots of the new Windows Live Profile website, also in its all-Metro-style glory. Check them out below:

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Nokia Phi – new Nokia Windows Phone 8 device revealed

Nokia Phi – new Nokia Windows Phone 8 device revealed

As we’re inching closer towards the Windows Phone Developer Summit, to be held on June 20-21 in San Francisco, more and more news (and rumors) about Windows Phone 8 are starting to surface. The ... Read more »
Nokia Maps and Yahoo! Axis: Better than Bing?

Nokia Maps and Yahoo! Axis: Better than Bing?

A couple of Bing related news items today, both about other companies extending and improving upon Bing services, with more to come. First, Nokia and Bing Maps announced the furthering of their partnership on ... Read more »
Tip: Rep says that Windows Phone 8 is for current gen phones

Tip: Rep says that Windows Phone 8 is for current gen phones

This post was originally posted on My Microsoft Life. Today I was tipped off to “something big” by a well known source: Waggener Edstrom person says MSFT has Windows 8 (for x86), Windows RT ... Read more »
Bing’s Visual Search decommissioned

Bing’s Visual Search decommissioned

One of our readers (thanks Quikboy!) pointed out to us yesterday that a one-time prominent beta offering on Bing, Visual Search, is no longer available.  Visual Search was first announced at the TechCrunch 50 ... Read more »
Windows 8 Release Preview to come with built-in News, Sports and Travel apps, powered by Bing

Windows 8 Release Preview to come with built-in News, Sports and Travel apps, powered by Bing

A few days ago we hinted that there are new bundled Metro style apps coming in the upcoming Windows 8 Release Preview. It seems like the secrets are now out of the bag, with ... Read more »
Microsoft refocuses Messenger Social, discontinues “web activities” from July 2012

Microsoft refocuses Messenger Social, discontinues “web activities” from July 2012

Since the release of Windows Live Wave 3, Microsoft added what was then an extension of Windows Live Spaces, allowing every Windows Live ID holder to own a profile, and is able to connect ... Read more »
SkyDrive.com finally gets URL shortening service SDRV.MS

SkyDrive.com finally gets URL shortening service SDRV.MS

Back in February, LiveSide exclusively revealed that a URL shortening service is coming to SkyDrive.com. However, interestingly we did not see this feature being added in the last major update which added paid storage ... Read more »
Windows Live SMS alerts feature to be discontinued May 31

Windows Live SMS alerts feature to be discontinued May 31

Windows Live has had its SMS alerts feature since the early days, when Microsoft rebranded MSN Alerts service to Windows Live in 2006. The service allowed you to subscribe to particular contents from various ... Read more »
Bing Search APIs, with a new free tier, now available on Azure Marketplace

Bing Search APIs, with a new free tier, now available on Azure Marketplace

Last month we wrote about some changes to the Bing Search API, used by developers to bring Bing search functionality into their applications.  The set of APIs, which originally were free to use, are ... Read more »