October, 2009

Windows Live Sync update coming this week, update for Snow Leopard coming soon

Windows Live Sync The Windows Live Sync team blog posted the following announcement today:

Soon [This Thursday], when you sign in to Windows Live Sync on your computers running Windows, you’ll see that you need to go to the Sync website to install

Live Mesh for Snow Leopard: fixed, now works :)

livemeshmac When Apple released its latest version of the Mac OS X operating system, dubbed Snow Leopard, last August, an unfortunate side effect was that Live Mesh for Mac no longer worked.  After rewriting a lot of code, the Live …

Silverlight Streaming to be discontinued: new Azure service coming

liveservices In a move that should surprise no one (in case you were wondering why we didn’t use Silverlight Streaming to host video after Soapbox closed), Silverlight Streaming, a Windows Live beta service for hosting Silverlight audio and video content, …

MSE after one week: 1.5 mil downloads, 535k infected machines

A post on Thursday on the Microsoft Malware Protection Center blog reports that not only were there 1.5 million downloads of MSE, but almost 4 million malware detections from 535,752 machines were encountered!

According to the blog post:

Microsoft Security

Adding Photos To Hotmail Messages Possible Again

Back in August, the Hotmail team temporarily removed adding photos to the body of Windows Live Hotmail messages due to a security issue in the upload tool. They have been building an updated version of the tool and now you …

Office Web Applications: we talk with Chris Bryant about consumer use

We had a chance this week to sit down and talk with Chris Bryant, Director, Office Product Management at Microsoft, to talk a little bit more about Office Web Applications and specifically how Windows Live and consumer users will benefit …

“Most, if not all” Sidekick data restored, says Microsoft

Microsoft is now saying that “most, if not all” Sidekick data thought to be lost in a server upgrade to Danger’s Sun/Oracle platform can now be recovered, according to a press release issued by Roz Ho, Corporate Vice-President for Premium …

“Non-Microsoft technologies” to blame for Danger/Sidekick failure, Microsoft says

After more than a week of silence on what caused the Sidekick outage with Danger, the Los Angeles Times today quotes Microsoft spokesperson Tonya Klause, not really explaining what happened, but definitely distancing Microsoft cloud services such as Windows Live …

New Bing Mobile app for China (WL Messenger, too)

While we can have all kinds of fun with numbers about search market share in the US, there’s no getting around the fact that Google dominates.  However in China, the search market landscape is quite a bit different than the …

Latest numbers show Bing is down (or up) (or flat)

This month’s numbers for Bing US market share are in, with comScore the latest to report, and while the major reporting services disagree on the exact numbers, the concensus probably is that Bing’s initial push has slowed down.  We reported