What with BillG at Mix and the Office DevCon, and the Vista stain on the carpet, somewhat overlooked as announcements go was the first official introduction of Windows Live ID, presented at Mix by Brian Arbogast and Ken Levy. The …

As part of his presentation today at Mix '06, as expected, Brian Arbogast announced the Windows Live Developer Center. You can find it at http://msdn.com/live. We'll have more soon, as details from Mix filter out.

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Mix '06 kicks off today (Monday March 20), and Windows Live looks to be very much "in the mix". Sanaz will be presenting on gadgets, and Scott Isaacs on AJAX, of course. Brad Adams will be presenting using Live …

As Kip mentioned earlier, we're expecting a major Windows Live platform announcement to be made at Mix '06 later today. As Steve Ballmer said back in September 2005, Microsoft wants to "Win the web" and to do …

Last week saw several websites proclaiming that the Windows Live Messenger was public because of this website on MSN UK, however it still required an invite to sign in to the program. The Messenger team has now dropped the …

Contrary to what we posted earlier, the access that was granted to non-invited users over the weekend was merely caused by a server glitch that has now been fixed. That's the bad news for all of you out there …

Last week, Windows Live Safety Center was updated, and the web-based virus scanning tool now is able to scan for registry changes, detect and remove spyware, scan someone elses computer from Windows Live Messenger and help them with their …

We haven't really mentioned any of the mobile services here much yet, so I thought I'd give a mention to the latest update for Mobile Spaces (mobile.spaces.msn.com). Changes include:

– You can view photo albums
– You can …

Microsoft Program Manager Ian McAllister started the discsussion about this service, after posting some of the details on his Space a short while ago.

There's not much to see over at http://shopping.live.com/ at the moment, except for this recruitment page…

Today I interviewed Leah, a Program Manager on Windows Live Messenger and one of the bloggers on the team blog: MessengerSays. As a result of the blog, Leah is in the process of switching to a more user-oriented role …