March, 2008

Windows Live Messenger gains new Activity

As of this evening users of Windows Live Messenger in France have a new Activity at their disposal, Messenger TV. Messenger TV brings Video to Messenger. It offers a daily selection of the best of MSN Video (France), which …

A killer app on the Horizon? – Live Mesh and the future of synchronized storage

Update: Live Mesh is a product that has seen numerous updates during the year so far. Check out the launch, our sequence of 3 detailed reviews, our interview with David Treadwell, get invites or view the most

Microsoft continues on/off public testing of new Live Search update (Rome)

A few days ago Kip posted about a temporary update to Live Search, with the new thin UI. Well the new version is back for the moment, so I thought I’d take the chance to highlight it again in …

Windows Live Spaces loses 15% of unique visitors in US over the last year

According to some new numbers included in an email from Nielsen Online today, Windows Live Spaces, never a big player in the US market for social networking tools, lost significant ground over the past year.

Nielsen Online provides February’s top

Windows Live Messenger Web Controls – Part 2

Hopefully you will have read and followed the code from the first part of this article. The first part covered most of base functionality including how to sign in, get the users details and get their contact list. What is …

Windows Live Messenger Web Controls – Part 1

The Windows Live team have been busy over the past few months and recently launched the Windows Live Messenger APIs. This is basically split over three parts, the IM Control, the Windows Live Presence API and the Windows Live

Executive leaves Microsoft for ad company

Microsoft executive Joanne Bradford (Corporate Vice President, chief Media Officer, MSN), is leaving Microsoft to join Spot Runner Inc.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, Spot Runner develops technology solutions that revolutionize the way advertising is created, targeted, bought and sold. The …

Read and Write Chinese? Win cool prizes!

Our friends at LiveSino.net, through their new Windows Live Community forums and in association with MSN China, are running a competition:

Hello again, I am Picturepan2 Yan. I would like to announce a Competition now – there’s a new competition

New look for Live Search? Has Rome arrived?

UPDATE #2: Looks like this must have been just a test, as the new UI isn’t available anymore.  Since it only worked in IE7, and not IE8 or Firefox, probably a good indication that there’s still work left to do.…

JSLint adds supports for Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets

You’ve heard me stress in the past the importance of writing good JavaScript, especially when it comes to the complex code that makeup a Windows Vista Sidebar gadget. You’ve also heard me preach that you should always lint your code