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More Information On the Spaces Update [Even More Info Added]

The Spaces update has started rolling out now so I thought I would take this time to just go through a few of the new changes, showing what’s new.

New Home Page and the New Windows Live Bar

I made …

@live Address Registration – part 42 [Does not work now]

Update: This method does not work now. We’ll keep you posted on when they become available again.

Last week we briefly saw the @live.com registration open for an hour and just as quickly got closed. Unfortunately, at that time, a …

Spaces Gets A Slight Update

image Windows Live Spaces just released is releasing tonight a small update to their popular blogging and social networking service. The update includes the following features:

  • Broader availability – jumping from 34 markets to 42
  • Birthday notifications option on your Live

MSN and Farecast.com Launch Free Airfare Predictions, Planning Tools

MSN and Farecast.com, the airfare prediction Web site, have today announced an agreement in which MSN will offer its users free airfare predictions and planning tools on the MSN Travel Channel. The addition of Farecast’s innovative technology and planning …

JiWire to provide advertisers for Microsoft municipal wifi

Last year Microsoft announced its intention to get into the municipal wifi market, which for those non-Americans is free public wifi for entire towns and cities. These networks are currently being built and tested by MetroFi in Portland and Oakland, …

Migration from MSN to Windows Live Hotmail begins this week in the Netherlands

After the wordwide launch of Windows Live Hotmail at the beginning of June, migration of MSN Hotmail users over to the new platform is set to begin this week. Using the Netherlands as the first test market, the remaining MSN Hotmail users …

Ask.com Sponsored Listings now integrated into Microsoft adManager beta

Office Live is increasing the reach of small businesses everywhere with the addition of Ask Sponsored Listings, part of the IAC Advertising Network.  This is a huge deal for Office Live, which has had a bumpy past, and …

ComScore: Windows Live gets a search share bump

Today, ComScore released their new set of search engine share stats for May through June and things are looking good for Live Search.

This reported 2.9% bump in Microsoft’s search share serves as more support to the Compete.com data that

Windows Live OneCare 2.0 beta – A more detailed look

With the launch of Windows Live OneCare 2.0 beta this week, we thought it was worth going through the program in some more detail to do it justice. It is more than a simple anti-virus program, providing both backup and home …

Live Folders To Support Image Previews

image Just a small tidbit found over at the Live Folders Team Blog, they have announced that the next release of Live Folders will include thumbnails of any pictures that are in your folders.

Currently when you have a folder …