July, 2008

Live Search coming to Facebook

This morning at the Financial Analyst’s Meeting (FAM), being held on Microsoft’s campus, Satya Nadella announced an extension of Microsoft’s U.S. relationship with Facebook to encompass search.  An email from Waggener Edstrom clarifies:

As part of the deal, Microsoft will

Windows Live Photo Gallery Will Soon Recognize Faces In Pictures

 Digital Inspiration unveils a little bit about the face recognition in the upcoming Windows Live Photo Gallery:

Imagine this. You connect a digital camera to your PC for transferring photos and the software is able to recognize family

Microsoft releases new Outlook Connector with Windows Live Calendar beta synchronisation for all

 

Microsoft has just released a new version of the Outlook Connector, giving users access to the Windows Live services through Outlook. In what will be a popular move (judging by the comments on our last Calendar post), the …

Live QnA: Next Release On July 22nd PDT, Site Down For Maintenance In The Afternoon

Live Search QnA, yes it still exists and still in beta form. Beta means there is still room for improvement and as such there will be a new release on the 22nd. In this release you should see several …

Virtual Earth: July Imagery Release And New Lead For Australia

Virtual Earth has a new Lead for Australia, Peter Ulm.

Peter Ulm has been with Microsoft for over a decade, most recently as the strategic account manager for one of Microsoft Australia’s largest accounts. He previously worked in sales …

Live Mesh Infrastructure Update

Work is being done behind the scenes of Live Mesh, today they are rolling out an infrastructure update:

Live Mesh infrastructure update

We will be rolling out an update to Live Desktop today, July 21. There will be no update

IM Control: LiveSide posts non-Mesh news; world does not end

If we didn’t know better, we’d say our friend Angus Logan was jealous.  Wants us to change our name, even.  Apparently in a blatant attempt to get his name back on LiveSide, he posted on some cool improvements to the

Just Released: Windows Live For Windows Mobile

A new version of Windows Live for Windows Mobile has just been released:

Wait no more! The latest bits for Windows Live Client for your Windows Mobile are available for download. To get yours now, point your mobile browser

Pre-Beta Mac client for Live Mesh – Review only [updated]

After the recent flurry of Live Mesh posts we’ve done in the last 2 weeks, here’s one more. With all the recent updates that have gone on, users have been looking for client applications to run on devices other than …

Live Mesh Tutorial: Synchronizing Messenger Plus! Skins, Scripts Etc.

Now we know how to synchronize Windows Live Messenger content, how about doing the same for Messenger Plus!?

What can we synchronize there? We can synchronize installed Skins and Scripts! Saves installing/downloading all those installation files again! When …