Microsoft demos Windows 8 apps for Mail, Calendar, People, Messaging, and Photos

Early this morning we just posted about what we know about Windows 8 and the future of Windows Live, and now Microsoft’s Harrison Hoffman, Product Manager on the SkyDrive team (and one of the ... Read more »

What’s new with the latest Hotmail update?

Last month Microsoft announced a string of updates to be rolled out to Hotmail users within the next few months. The updates included Facebook chat support within Hotmail’s web messenger, sub-folders support, increase in ... Read more »

A first look at Hotmail Exchange ActiveSync on the iOS

Earlier today, reports are coming in that users are getting Hotmail’s Exchange ActiveSync working again. I went in and tried it on my iPod touch, and to my surprise it actually worked perfectly – ... Read more »

Windows Live Messenger Connect beta released

Today, Microsoft announced the availability of the Windows Live Messenger Connect beta. Messenger Connect is a single API that enables developers to integrate social experiences into their web and rich-client applications using the Windows ... Read more »

Windows Live Profile Wave 4: LinkedIn to become a Connected Service, and display names to go away

Today on the Inside Windows Live team blog Omar Shahine (Principal Lead Program Manager for Windows Live) made a blog post about the new Windows Live Profile with particular emphasis to changes made to ... Read more »

Windows Live Web Toolbar Mashup – MessyTwit

A lot of people nowadays have Twitter accounts, a Facebook account etc. and if you’re reading this then I’m also assuming you have a Windows Live account and some interest in Windows Live Services. ... Read more »

Windows Live UI Controls

Following on from my previous tutorial on how to integrate the Windows Live Web Bar into your site, we’ll build upon this and show you some of the other UI controls that you can ... Read more »

Coming Next Week: New Web Activities And Contact Importing From MySpace, Hi5 And Tagged

Yes, we’ve been waiting for this! In the next few days, 20 new feed partners will be added to Windows Live, so you can add all your activities on for example Facebook, Digg, Last.fm, ... Read more »

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 10

So far in this series we have covered quite a bit of ground including customizing the sign-in control, groups, contacts, new features of the 2.5 API including user images etc. For this part we ... Read more »

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 9

After a little break due to a very heavy work schedule, we’re back with Part 9 of this mini-series explaining how to create a Web Messenger control that you can just drop into your ... Read more »