September, 2008

Hotmail slow to release, experiencing engineering issues?

This morning the Windows Live Hotmail Technical Support blog posted the following message, only to take it down again sometime later in the day:

We are aware that some Hotmail customers are experiencing an issue seeing their folders with the

Hotmail spotted in the wild

Just as we suspected, once we posted on “where’s Hotmail”, we started getting reports of sightings.  Thanks to LiveSide reader Graeme (who is getting his website at www.bitsticks.com running, should be up soon) we have some screenshots:

After Login - Before Inbox

welcome screen

Flower Theme I Think

And Graeme was …

What happened to Hotmail?

Last week, after receiving a “tip” from Microsoft’s PR firm Waggener Edstrom, we posted on the coming rollout of a new version of Hotmail.  Our readers were quick to try and catch the new version in the wild, checking out …

Video – Getting Started with the Virtual Earth Web Service

VEWS was just released and after a few attempts myself to get it working I thought I would share a short video on the sign up process and adding the references to Visual Studio 2008.

VEWS

Video after the break:…

WooHoo! Avatars!

View spaceWell, I’m excited anyway.  We’ve had a few small but quite annoying issues with our recent upgrade server move, and the one affecting our readers most has been the inability to upload avatars.  Well as of tonight that’s fixed :), …

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 4

In the last part of this tutorial we covered the links and the new Show and Hide functionality of the Sign-In control. In this part, as promised, we will get to the customization options that are available to you with …

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 3

In the last part of this series we added the necessary framework to put in the place the sign-in control and get it working.

MessPlainSignIn

So now that you’ve got the sign-in control displayed in your User Control, what can you …

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 2

Following on from the first part of this article where we managed to register Ajax classes and get a basic outline that we can play around with for our new messenger User Control, we come onto logging in to web …

Hotmail to begin rollout of new, faster release

Windows Live Hotmail will begin to roll out an update starting today.  The new release does away with the “full” and “classic” versions, and combines the two into a simpler, faster service.  Included in the new release:

  • Enhanced address book,

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 1

The preface to this little project is that at work I have been handed a project which is all about styling. Given the recent release of Windows Live Messenger Wave 3 beta, the new 2.5 API set and the customizations …