…Microsoft plans to unveil a question-and-answer social-search tool in the coming months, says Justin Osmer, senior product manager for MSN. The feature will let users direct questions to a specific universe, such as a group of friends,
Microsoft’s social search? You mean Windows Live Answers…
Windows Live Mix 06 Session PPT decks are up
Ken Levy points to the seven Windows Live PowerPoint decks from last month's Mix 06, all found on the Mix '06 site, along with decks from other sessions. Ken says the on demand videos from the sessions will be …
Office Live signups explode
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Windows Live Messenger to add plugin support
As Ken Levy mentioned earlier this week, the next beta build of Windows Live Messenger will see yet more extensiblity features being made available to 3rd party developers. Windows Live Messenger Add-Ins can be added to increase Messenger's functionality …
Windows Vista to Embrace Live Services
In Niall Kennedy's post, linked below, he describes Live.com as the new default home page for Windows Vista and IE7. MSN.com currently receives a huge amount of traffic as the default home page in Windows, and a shift away from …
Niall Kennedy joins Windows Live
Niall Kennedy formerly of Technorati, announced that he is joining Windows Live to "create a new product team around syndication technologies such as RSS and Atom." Here's how you'll see this implemented as an end user:
…I'll be working closely
New Extensibility Features coming in next Messenger beta
Ken Levy, Product Planner for the Windows Live Platform, posted on Monday a link to a new document on the Windows Live Developer Center, Business Opportunity for Building Applications with Windows Live and MSN Messenger . He talks about the …
Windows Live Mail Desktop gets back on track
I will be the first one to admit it, I was having some serious doubts about the future of Windows Live Mail Desktop, that is until the latest build was released to the public. Prior to the recent build, …
Windows Live ID Blog Launches
Trevin Chow and his team launch their official Windows Live ID blog on MSN Spaces today. He describes what Windows Live ID and how it will affect current Passport users:
…Windows Live ID is the upgrade/replacement for the Microsoft Passport
Academic Search to launch tomorrow?
All the signs are pointing to a launch on Tuesday of Windows Live Academic Search. Dean Giustini who met with the team last week says " it's official worldwide launch is Tuesday April 11th, 2006." Given that the domain academic.live.com…
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