February, 2008

New Outlook Connector in the works with Calendar synch for all

At the start of the year there was some discussion around whether MSN Premium offered good value for money in light of all these new and free Windows Live services. While we still think its great if you want several ad …

Re-branding Microsoft

In our conversation with Bill Gates at Mix n Mash last December, Jonathon Snook opened up a can of worms by asking Gates about Microsoft and innovation:

Jonathan Snook: There’s a myth that Microsoft doesn’t innovate. How do you

Microsoft moves towards IE8 beta

Looks like Microsoft is ramping up the teasers for Mix08. Activewin just posted the text from a Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft Connect invitation email.

“Greetings from the Internet Explorer Team! We are nearing the launch of Windows Internet Explorer 8

Windows Live Messenger, the “Installer”, and XP64bit, so what’s the deal here?

Yesterday, another one of our favorite but seemingly long lost Windows Live blogs, Inside Windows Live Messenger, posted (first time since Dec. 5, woohoo!) an announcement that version 8.5 of Windows Live Messenger is to be pushed out to …

SkyDrive, at 5gb, officially out of Beta, and offered in 38 countries

We just posted on what we had noticed about an increase for SkyDrive storage to 5gb, and we’re pleasantly surprised that the SkyDrive team has just posted on their blog, announcing that indeed, SkyDrive is now at 5gb, that it’s …

Windows Live SkyDrive to offer 5gb free storage?

Thanks to tipster (tips*at*liveside*dot*net) Liam, it looks like we’re about to see a significant upgrade to the online storage feature from Windows Live, SkyDrive, to 5gb free:

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We’ve called for an increase in the storage capacity, if only to …

comScore posts January 2008 search share numbers, Yahoo takes a hit

 

comScore just posted their search share numbers for January 2008 and it’s bad news for Yahoo.  Yahoo took a 0.7% hit, while Google got a small 0.1% bump.  Windows Live remained the same as last month, so there is …

Upgrade to Windows Live Messenger 8.5 coming

New upgrade round, in two phases, coming up:

Phase 1. – For those who still aren’t using Windows Live Messenger 8.5 (Windows XP and Vista, optional upgrade): 

First, everyone running Windows XP or Windows Vista will get a prompt

Earth? No, the Sky is the limit?!

We can already look at Earth with Virtual Earth, but what about the Sky? Microsoft doesn’t have anything for that yet. Yes, that’s right, YET! This might change on February 27th at the TED Conference in Monterey California:

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Microsoft DreamSpark – Free software development tools for students

On Live in Europe, Brian Groth reported students can get free software development tools:

Over on Channel 8, the video blog for students, Bill Gates just announced free software for students in a program called DreamSpark.