June, 2007

Folders beta closed, for now

The Windows Live Folders beta opened up yesterday, and contrary to what we understood, was simply open to the first 5,000 users to get there, with a slight caveat of changing your locale to en-us.  That explains why many of …

Folders and Photo Gallery announced – more to come this summer

Windows Live Folders and Windows Live Photo Gallery are set to begin limited managed betas, according to an announcement by Microsoft today.  Windows Live Folders, which we showed you when it briefly popped up back in May, is the …

Folders and Photo Gallery are now in beta

Well we just got the email, and Windows Live Folders and Windows Live Photo Gallery are now available if you have been invited.  You should have received an invitation to “Windows Live Beta” a few weeks ago, and if you …

A few more details on Windows Live Photo Gallery

Brandon LeBlanc over at the Windows Vista Blog has been playing with Windows Live Photo Gallery, and has a nice post up on it. He describes some of the new features, extensions to the Photo Gallery in Vista:

“Windows

The Search Share Battle – does it really matter?

The latest comScore numbers, showing Live Search holding steady, but not gaining, at 10.3% of the market share, seems to indicate that Live Search isn’t succeeding.  Yet as was pointed out a couple of weeks ago, a 10% share

Microsoft going nowhere fast in search share

The latest ComScore US internet search results are out, and Microsoft sites still come in a distant third to Google and Yahoo.  Although US searches on the internet grew by 4% in May from April, the Microsoft share of those …

@live address questions answered

Jacky Mok, another Product Manager for Windows Live in Toronto, has posted some information on the upcoming @live addresses, which he says will be available “in the fall”, along with “a rich family of products” around the same time.…

Windows Live Messenger 8.5 updated – via Windows Update

Beta testers running the 8.5 beta version of Messenger were alerted to an update today – for the first time via Windows Update.  While the update doesn’t actually make any changes to Messenger, seems like we should expect some changes …

Windows Live ID

This article will be the first in a short series on incorporating Windows Live ID authentication services into your web site.

Windows Live ID authentication services enables you to incorporate Passport authentication into your own Web sites. It also enables …

Search for anything (??) with Live Search

From Farhan Thawar, the Live Search Program Manager from Toronto, comes this little gem, currently running “in theatres” (in Canada?).