Still no sign of Ray Ozzie, but Online Services Group Senior Vice President Steve Berkowitz has been popping up all over the place lately, and the bottom line seems to be a return to supporting MSN at the expense …

An update to the Windows Live OneCare Family Safety website (fss.live.com) has taken place this weekend, with the layout changing to the familiar Orb + Flair seen on the many other Windows Live sites. According to an email sent to …

A new version of the Custom Domains SDK is up at Microsoft.com downloads, version 1.2.  Here’s the overview:

The Windows Live Custom Domains SDK is intended for customers and partners who want to programmatically accomplish many of the administration tasks

Donavon wrote a gadget for Live.com, Spaces, and the Vista sidebar that counts down to when Vista officially ships to the general public. So I thought I would continue this using the Messenger Add-In APIs and write the same thing …

Windows Live Custom Domains has just been updated, adding in several new features. From the team blog:

• All top level domains (TLDs) are now supported
• You can now register subdomains along with domains, or domains and subdomains on their own, however you

a) Make results more relevant
b) Make it faster
c) Get a pornstar to advertise it in a flash movie
d) All of the above

Windows Live Search went for d with Ms Dewey. Another successful day at the office for …

While no formal announcement was made, Microsoft quietly slipped out a new version 0.7 of the Web Gadget SDK last week. In fact the “It’s time to Build” page on the recently crippled MicrosoftGadgets.com still shows version 0.5 (beta).…

NewTeeVee, a new site for GigaOM run by Om Malik, posts a review of MSN Soapbox that offers some insights into where the beta service is heading.

First, according to the piece, Soapbox is slated to come out of …

Today sees the launch of Windows Live Book Search, a service we first posted about back in May along with the launch of its sister site Windows Live Publishing Portal. Designed to provide access to books indexed by …