January, 2007

Vista: Launched

For those of you living under a rock, Windows Vista has been officially released as of today, January 30th.  Bill Gates announced the launch of Vista at an event in New York City today, with the help of the …

Windows Live Messenger 8.1

Yes the beta has drawn to a close and Windows Live Messenger 8.1 is now available. Nice work by Dwergs in getting the English download link, no doubt he’ll be posting the other language builds shortly.

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Some notes on Spaces version 11.01

Spaces launched a new build last week, notably with the ability to embed videos.  But there’s quite a bit new under the hood, too.  Jason Antonelli of the Spaces team posted on his blog about some of the new …

MSN Revival – The January Effect

With the announcement of Windows Live in November 2005, and the transition of most existing services to the new brand in the first half of last year, the future of MSN appeared somewhat bleak. Since he was hired away from Ask.com …

“Bungled branding” of Live services has hurt Microsoft, CNet News.com reports

In an article following the release of Microsoft’s First Quarter Earnings Report, CNET News.com reports that “Microsoft’s Live branding has been tremendously confusing and has hurt the company”.  According to the article:

“While Microsoft doesn’t break out the financial figures

Windows Live SDKs

Over the last year, we’ve had all sorts of different SDKs released for Windows Live products and services, but yesterday saw the announcement of not another seperate SDK, but the collective Windows Live SDKs. I think this has been a …

Windows Live Search SDK Released

The Windows Live Dev site has just posted that the Windows Live Search SDK is now available on MSDN (link). So what’s new in this release? According to the blog post it includes:

  • Lots more sample code!
  • Weather

Windows Live Spaces and Videos, finally together

Last night the Windows Live Spaces team blog announced that they had released a new version of Spaces (link). According to the post there are a few backend changes, but the main change is something that people have …

Windows Live OneCare for only $19.95 until 2/12

Just in time for Valentine’s day; after all, what kind of presents do geeks give?  Windows Live OneCare is closing the beta, but for a limited time you can get a 3 PC 1-year subscription for only $19.95.  You don’t …

Windows Live Mail adds contacts export

Well since Steve Kafka reads LiveSide, we wanted to let him know we read him, too!  In addition to the features listed on the Mail Call blog, Steve points out that the new Live Mail M9 includes better contacts …