January, 2009

Live Mesh team joins Windows/Windows Live org

Mary Jo Foley is reporting that the Live Mesh team, which started out as a special project under Ray Ozzie and known at first as Windows Live Core, has joined the Windows / Windows Live org, under Senior Vice …

Live Search – now on your iPhone!

Live Search has just released a new version (in the US, UK, and Australia) that includes an iPhone friendly site.  This is not an iPhone app, but an iPhone-friendly version of the Live Search site (m.live.com).  From an …

Live Search Maps for The Netherlands launched

After Finland got it’s Live Search Maps, we now also have Live Search Maps in The Netherlands (my Location).

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This release includes 3D, Collections, Directions (drive and walk) and 43 cities (Amsterdam isn’t amongst those strangely enough) in Birds-Eye …

Windows Live 2009: Colin Anthony and Emmanuel Miranda

Up until Wave 3, Windows Live has been a suite pretty much in name only.  In Wave 2, services were focused, some were culled, in order to make some sense of the seemingly random slapping of the Windows Live moniker …

Windows Live FrameIt to integrate with Live Mesh, client and SDK coming soon

One piece of information that came out of CES 2009 that went unnoticed was about Windows Live FrameIt. The FrameIt team blog today posted a link to a Channel 10 video about the upcoming support for Live Mesh in …

Live Mesh Notice: Scheduled Maintenance

The following maintenance notice appeared on the Live Mesh Forums:

To all our valued customers: The Live Mesh team will be performing some scheduled maintenance on the following days this week and next: January 14th, 15th

Windows Live 2009: Our interview with Ryan Gavin, Sr. Director, Windows Live

2008 was a momentous year for Windows Live.  After lots of fanfare, but with no real direction, Windows Live first appeared in early 2006, with lots of new apps, lots of rebranding (and re-rebranding), and lots of queries from the …

5 Great New Features Between Live Writer And Live Spaces

With the Essentials suite recently released and Live Writer 2009 going final, I’d like to take a moment and just point out some great collaboration work between the Live Writer and Live Spaces team. Here are my 5 favourite new …

Windows Live Calendar: out of beta, adds features

Yesterday Windows Live Calendar shut down for a bit in order to prepare for their latest incarnation, and today they’re back, having shed the “beta” tag and added some nice new features (we’re talking about the online calendar, at Calendar.live.com …

Hotmail POP3 access on the way: Omar Shahine explains

We spent the day today (Jan 13) on campus, talking to some of the people who have helped to bring you Wave 3.  In quite a coincidence, one of them was Omar Shahine, who we spoke to last fall when