2006

Windows Live OneCare winners

Here’s the list of winners of our recent Windows Live OneCare competition. If you could email me, I’ll sort you out with your subscription.

Life Invasion
Looking around 24/7
Jordan M’s Blog
Jon T
@Live

Again thanks to the …

Windows Live: Where it started, where we’ve been, and where we are now

Well, it’s that time of the year again.  It’s the time where everyone does their predictions for the new year and recap of the events of the year that is on its wayRay Ozzie at the Windows Live Announcement out.  Kip is going to be covering …

QnA 3rd (but far behind) in US Market Share: Hitwise

Hitwise Research Director Leann Prescott has posted the first real stats we’ve seen on question and answer site market share, and although Windows Live QnA is in third place, Yahoo! Answers is far ahead in the race with 96.1% US …

Windows Live Mail Plus to offer 4GB storage

As more Windows Live services launch out of beta in the next few months, one of the unanswered questions still remains around premium subscribers. Some good news for Hotmail Plus users comes in the form of Windows Live Mail Plus, …

New support site – Windows Live Help Community

Over the last week a new Windows Live Help Community site has rolled out, aiming to provide support for Windows Live services and products. Users can ask and answer questions, as well as sharing their experiences and feedback on the …

Windows Live Search “Dead”? Not yet.

It seems as though the headlines for the monthly search engine reports are getting worse and worse for Windows Live. Last week had the Guardian technology blog proclaim Windows Live Search could be renamed Dead Search . While nobody would say that …

Sidebar Programming: Microsoft took away alert(), I’m taking it Back!

Developers often find the need to popup some kind of informational message to the user. We’ve all been on web sites and received the “Invalid input, please try again” alert, or the “Delete record. Are you sure?” confirmation dialog. But …

Virtual Earth adds five new 3D cities and Italy imagery

The Map Room is reporting that 3D imagery for five new cities has been added to Virtual Earth.  The new cities include the following: Sacramento in 3D

– Minneapolis – St. Paul, MN
– Tacoma, WA
– Sacramento, CA
– Various L.A. …

Windows Live Contact Cards

The folks over at Windows Live have recently released an update for the Contact Cards API to v0.2 (see dev.live.com for details).

What is a contact card? 
A contact card (or perhaps cards) is really the list of all …

Will CES bring Windows Live News?

Robert McLaws is guessing that Windows Live Drive may be announced at CES in Las Vegas in January.  Basing his assumption on an ad in the CES 2007 guide, “Announcing a new way to share, protect, and store what …