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More @live addresses available: India, Philippines, Spain

Posted on the Live Wire blog earlier today, news of some new additions to the @live.xx family. If you live in these areas, you can sign up for a country specific @live address now, by going to get.live.com/mail/overview India: You can now get @live.in e-mail addresses, in addition to @hotmail.com addresses...

Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Kip Kniskern on 11-30-2007
Microsoft launches new Windows Live Home beta

Yet another bolt out the blue ( maybe not ), Microsoft just launched the new Windows Live Home beta portal. At the moment it offers only basic functionality, ie no integration, just access to all the Windows Live services. Funnily enough, it also links to the new Windows Live Suite , though the page...

Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Chris on 08-09-2007
@live address questions answered

Jacky Mok, another Product Manager for Windows Live in Toronto, has posted some information on the upcoming @live addresses , which he says will be available "in the fall", along with "a rich family of products" around the same time. According to the blog entry on livechronicles.spaces.live.com , there...

Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Kip Kniskern on 06-23-2007
Mail gadget for Live.com is back

After having to pull the gadget because of some security issues, the Live.com blog has just announced that it's back. The gadget adds a view of your Windows Live Hotmail account to a Live.com page. You must be using Windows Live Hotmail to use the gadget, it won't work with an old-style Hotmail account...

Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Kip Kniskern on 05-18-2007
The end of start.com

Well this is kind of sad. Sanaz Ahari announced on the Start.com blog today that in one week (May 22, 2007), start.com will redirect to live.com, ending a most unique and fun project. "This is a bittersweet moment as I reflect on what start.com accomplished from it's inception in February 2005, helping...

Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Kip Kniskern on 05-16-2007
(Hot)mail coming to Live.com again soon?

Live.com has offered, among many others , a gadget to put your Windows Live Mail on a Live.com page. Problem is that the gadget hasn't worked for quite some time, and now we have an explanation, and a reason for hope that it will again. According to the Live.com blog : "The gadget was pulled due to a...

Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Kip Kniskern on 04-24-2007
Live.com Sharing enabled

Tonight brings an update to the Live.com home page, allowing for sharing of Live.com collections, which we recently posted about . By clicking on the new "Share" button on Live.com: You can share your Live.com collections, either by email or by posting them to Gallery.Live.com, where you'll also find...

Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Kip Kniskern on 02-16-2007