September, 2007

Live Search “leaked”: a clarification

On last Wednesday night, Akram Hussein, a Windows Live Platform Program Manager, went home and was surfing the internet when he came across a new version of Live Search.  He checked to make sure he wasn’t on the Microsoft …

Using Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live In Your Blog Posts and Websites

Last week I posted about my interview with Angus Logan and Danny Thorpe and included the whole interview in the blog post by using Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live. But just what did I need to do to get …

Live Search 2.0 begins rollout

Apparently Microsoft can’t wait to get the new Live Search up and running before next week’s Searchification event, as the new look (and better results) search is beginning to show up in the wild.

Akram Hussein, Program Manager – Windows

Windows Live WebMessenger goes into dogfood

Beta is the new passé, and dogfood is where its at. Calendar and now WebMessenger are now both in dogfoods that are running on external urls (you have to be signed up to the internal dogfoods in order to …

Microsoft releases MSN Sideguide to fund free wifi

sideguide

Recently Microsoft silently launched MSN Sideguide, a new sidebar that “enhances your browsing experience with useful and relevant information as you surf”. The sidebar can be docked at either side of the screen (multi-monitor users are out of luck

To our RSS readers, Thanks!

Today, for the first time, we broke the 5k barrier on our little Feedburner counter:

feedburner5k

Now this may not seem like a big thing, but hey we’re geeks, and we’ve been watching the numbers!  We’ve been flirting with 5,000 for …

Windows Live teams up with Sprint for Mobile Search

Microsoft is set to announce the next chapter in their partnership with Sprint tomorrow.  Customers will be able to use Windows Live Search to perform location based searches, utilizing the built in GPS capabilities of Sprint phones.  I can see …

New Look Live Search is live

Last week we told you about some changes coming to Live Search, including a new look.  Well as of tonite it’s live (you may have to set the live.com home page to “search only” if you have it personalized)…

New Skydrive domains hint at desktop synchronisation

The weekly domain name posts from ResourceShelf have become a useful source of information for Microsoft and Google bloggers. This week is no exception, with Windows Live Skydrive having almost 20 domains registered or transferred to Microsoft servers in the last …

Why today’s EU ruling is good for Windows Live and its users

So there is a lot of talk going on about the EU anti-competive ruling today that upholds almost the entirity of the previous EU ruling. Here’s my three point summary why this ruling has been good already for Windows Live …