October, 2008

Dev.live.com Updated

LiveServicesJust to whet our appetites for what’s to come, the dev.live.com website has been updated, complete with a new logo. There’s no new content on there yet, but that will start showing up tomorrow after David Treadwell’s Keynote at PDC.…

Ray Ozzie opens up: our informal meetup with Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect

After today’s keynote, LiveSide, along with a small group of bloggers including Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror, Steve Gillmor of TechCrunchIT, Long Zheng, and some others that unfortunately I missed getting their names, were lucky enough to be invited to …

Windows Live Messenger: Telefonica’s Voype Web Calling Service Launches On Windows Live Messenger

A Messenger feature that got discontinued a little while back returns. VOIP! Telefonica, one of the largest telecommunication companies, brings their Web Calling Service Voype to Messenger in the following countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, the United States, …

Live Mesh: Required Update To Live Mesh Coming Next Week

Attention, attention all Live Mesh Tech Preview users!

Next week Live Mesh will release a required update! Meaning if you wish to continue using the product you have to update, else no synchronization or Remote Desktop!

Why a required …

LiveSide Live from PDC! (we hope)

The long awaited PDC, Microsoft’s Professional Developer’s Conference, gets underway unofficially on Sunday, and then in full force on Monday October 27, with keynotes by Ray Ozzie, Steven Sinofsky, David Treadwell, and others.  We’ll be there, and we’re excited …

Windows Live Messenger: Sign-in Problems For Beta Users That Block A Group

This notice just got posted on Inside Windows Live Messenger (messengersays):

An issue has been discovered in the current Windows Live Messenger beta that may leave users unable to sign-in.  Only a very small number of users may encounter

Messenger Groups, Where Are They Headed?

We already told you about Groups in Messenger in our Messenger review, but what are they exactly and where are they headed?

The messengersays live space, explains as follows:

Windows Live Groups are persistent groups that are

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 8

So far in this series we have learned about the Sign-In control, how to use it and the new features allowing you customize and hide it. We have also learned about the User class, how to implement that and also …

Handling Virtual Earth 6.2 “No Bird’s Eye Imagery” Bug

There are locations in Virtual Earth where Bird’s eye Imagery doesn’t exist for certain directional facings.  When a user attempts to rotate the Bird’s eye view when imagery is unavailable for that directional facing, maps.live.com displays a warning message.  Nothing will occur by …

Ray Ozzie at the DLA Piper Tech Summit: Cloud Computing has “enormous potential”

Speaking today at a keynote for the DLA Piper Tech Summit, Ray Ozzie tuned up his cloud computing mantra in preparation for next week’s PDC, by talking about the potential for the internet to speed up software usability.  In …