March, 2006

Blake to detail Windows Live Voice and Video strategy

WLMobile icon.gifAccording to an announcement on PressPass, Blake Irving will be outlining the Windows Live Voice and Video strategy this afternoon at the Spring 2006 VON Conference & Expo.

"The company has seen a sharp uptick in customer use of voice

Windows Live Mail team focuses on building a developer platform

WLMail icon.gifIf you love the Kahuna (Windows Live Mail) User Interface, Imran Qureshi is the guy to thank. Today, on his blog, Imran announced that the focus of his job has been changed to oversee the creation of a developer platform …

Ad testing on Office Live, WL Mail, and MSN Spaces to begin

windowslivelogo.gifAnother link to an MS press release, this one announcing the development of the Web's "Largest Advertising Network". 20 top brands, including Coca-Cola Brazil, JC Penney, and Monster Worldwide, will begin testing multiple ad formats on Windows Live Mail in …

Windows Live Mail hits one million users!

WLMail icon.gifI just wanted to say congratulations to the Windows Live Mail team on getting one million users on the beta! This is a big milestone for the project and they are only going up from here. Great job guys! That …

Trevin “explains” federation

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Our favorite Windows Live ID guy, Trevin, posts on federation, a procedure where one set of credentials (read: username/password) on a "forest" is trusted by another "forest", without having to create a second set of credentials. What this means …

LiveSide OPML Now Available!

WLSoon icon.gifWe've decided to make it easy on all of you and create an OPML file of all the sites that we are tracking currently. It will be updated along with the list on the left side of the site. Just …

Microsoft Confirms Windows Live Family Safety Settings

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The name may be a tongue twister, but it appears that Windows Live Family Safety Settings is here to stay. Yesterday, Microsoft issued a press release stating that they will be providing, "Free, Web-based Family Safety Settings that move beyond …

Office Live team start blog – better late than never

office live beta logo.pngWell it only took them a month since the public launch and here it is, the Office Live blog. Point #8 on our manifesto now fulfilled. Some good news if you haven't received an Office Live product key yet, …

Windows Live ID to include multiple credential support

WLIDLogo.pngFor everyone out there that tries to juggle mutiple passports for Microsoft's services, Live ID finally has the solution. In their release of Windows Live ID, Microsoft will include a utility, named Windows Live Sign-in Assistant, which will allow the …

Windows Live moves into video sharing

WLSoon icon.gifYes this is yet another unannounced upcoming service: Windows Live Video. As the name suggests, it provides a place for users to share their own video content with the world and will compete with existing services such as Google Video