Tonight Ray Ozzie presented a very enlightening keynote on why software as a service is important (a disruption, to use his term), that it will fundamentally change the way we use computers, and where Microsoft's implementation of services, Windows Live, …

The word on the street today was that the Windows Live Messenger launch has been delayed. Or at least that's what one website said after having stated last week that the launch was this Friday. When the actual launch is …

Windows Live at Tech-Ed

Tech Ed is about to begin, with a Ray Ozzie keynote tonite (Sunday June 11) at 7pm EDT (gmt -5). We're expecting some Windows Live announcements during the week, including the official announcement of dev.live.com, some …

…on the eve of the official announcement of dev.live.com. First off, a new SDK (software development kit) has surfaced at dev.live.com and MSDN, the
Messenger Add-In SDK – beta. Unfortunately, the two available sdk's for Messenger are listed …

Niall Kennedy, in a rare post actually about Windows Live on his blog ;), brings us MSReadr:

Many people like to keep up with new product announcements and launches across Microsoft but wish they had an aggregated way

Next week is Tech-Ed 2006 and what we're hearing is likely to be the "relaunch" of Windows Live. We've already mentioned that the Windows Live Developer Community (dev.live.com) is expected to launch, of which we posted a preview earlier in …

From the press release:

Microsoft Corp. today announced two key advances in Windows Live Book Search, a service that will enable Web searchers to find answers from authoritative, trusted book content. The addition of two new participants, the University

The Windows Live Developer community site has now launched at dev.live.com, a few days before the start of Tech-Ed 2006. From the about page:

Windows Live Dev is your one-stop shop for the Windows Live Platform, including information on

This is just a small post to say that if you want to try the new Windows Live Mail Desktop client and haven't signed up already, you can do so at the following url:

Beta Signup

Also, if you have …

We've been waiting for the first sign of the web-based Windows Live services to show the new Live UI for sometime now. Although the following screenshots don't show the Windows Live Orb, they do show the new Vapor header …