Get 33gb of cloud storage for free with Windows Live

Our friend Picturepan2, who runs LiveSino.net (which does a LOT more than just translate our posts into Chinese), got to adding up all the storage you get with Windows Live, inspired by a post ... Read more »

Hot New Updates To SkyDrive!

Skydrive received new updates today. It’s now available in 62 countries and regions, with 24 new ones added today: Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, the ... Read more »

SkyDrive, at 5gb, officially out of Beta, and offered in 38 countries

We just posted on what we had noticed about an increase for SkyDrive storage to 5gb, and we’re pleasantly surprised that the SkyDrive team has just posted on their blog, announcing that indeed, SkyDrive ... Read more »

Windows Live SkyDrive to offer 5gb free storage?

Thanks to tipster (tips*at*liveside*dot*net) Liam, it looks like we’re about to see a significant upgrade to the online storage feature from Windows Live, SkyDrive, to 5gb free: We’ve called for an increase in the ... Read more »

Xbox Live issues: lessons to be learned?

We don’t cover Xbox Live enough here on LiveSide, but we’ve been following the news of some problems in accessing Xbox Live over the holidays.  In a nutshell, apparently Xbox Live couldn’t keep up ... Read more »

As Google readies "GDrive", will Microsoft lead, or follow?

Some seemingly non-news coming out of the Wall Street Journal tonight, saying that Google is readying their online storage product, commonly referred to as GDrive. The Journal doesn’t offer any really new information, saying only ... Read more »

Virtual Earth 3D Tours: starting to get the hang of it

We got our first glimpse of Virtual Earth 3D Tours at Searchification, but it wasn’t much more that a glimpse, and when it went public we were scrambling a bit to get it figured ... Read more »

Windows Live announcements: Windows Live Events launched; SkyDrive goes to 1GB – Our interview with David Fortin

Windows Live Events, set to launch at the time of this posting, 5pm PDT (Redmond time), is a new feature of Windows Live Spaces that makes it easy to create, manage, and share events ... Read more »

Windows Live SkyDrive beta update brings minor but convenient changes

Today the Windows Live SkyDrive team released an updated version of the SkyDrive online storage service. While the service stays in beta for now this release incorporates several minor but very convenient changes that ... Read more »

Spaces, SkyDrive, Events: Changes in the works

Looks like some of the changes we’re expecting are starting to roll out in Spaces land – new SkyDrive integration, a changed Spaces “What’s New” page, and more Events sightings (although no sign of ... Read more »