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PhotoZoom and SLS get Silverlight 2 update

Chris — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:36:14 GMT

Emil Protalinski just caught the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 update to Silverlight Streaming, which also effects the PhotoZoom service.

For those of you who haven’t tried PhotoZoom yet, the service allows you to implement the Silverlight DeepZoom technology on your own photos, via a web UI – Microsoft does all the processing for you. There’s already a Facebook Application that was rolled out in April, but we somehow missed mentioning the Live Clipboard integration despite taking a screenshot of it. See the nice little orange icon below, that’s the one. Maybe we’ll be seeing this more in the future, Windows Live Calendar maybe?

Windows Live OEM bundle to be announced?

Kip Kniskern — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:57:00 GMT

In a post that seems to contradict the doomsday scenario that Joe Wilcox seems to be pushing, he reports today that an unidentified OEM will "imminently announce its first PC-bundling deal for Windows Live".

According to sources cited by Wilcox, the initial bundling would be for the Live homepage (www.live.com) and the Windows Live Toolbar. Live search is expected to be included according to the report, and "other products or services could come in the future".

According to the report, the Windows Live bundling deal would be one step to counteract Google's May 2006 deal with Dell, in which Dell PCs are loaded with the Google toolbar for Web and PC search, along with a co-branded home page, before they're shipped to consumers.

Reports of its demise notwithstanding, expect more out of Windows Live as it moves out of wave 1 (the only major piece left in beta being Windows Live Hotmail), as the new management (has anyone noticed that along with the much publicized departures, there have been some powerful additions to Windows Live management, noticably Steven Sinofsky and Chris Jones?) begins to assert itself, and as the focus in Redmond shifts away from the recent Vista launch to Windows Live.

Windows Live Clipboard: Wiring the web

Chris — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 23:54:00 GMT

At the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference today, Ray Ozzie announced the latest Windows Live service : Windows Live Clipboard. Put simply it is a clipboard for the web, allowing the copying and pasting of structured data to and from websites...(read more)