Ben Poon announced on the Live Mail beta blog yesterday that Windows Live Mail beta is expanding, from 300,000 to 3 million. As an incentive to try it out, Windows Live Mail is giving away a Safari trip to Africa…

Reuters has a very interesting article on how the University of Texas-Pan American is adopting the Windows Live @ edu program to take on the college's 17,000 email accounts. Windows Live @ edu uses the Windows Live Custom Domains system …

ProBlogger just alerted me to a new Google search feature that they are apparently going to start testing in their results page: "Search this site." Unsurprisingly nobody has mentioned that Windows Live Search has already implemented this, and it works …

The Live Favorites Team will soon be releasing updates to Windows Live Favorites. Those updates include:

New Windows Live Messenger Tab: A new tab for Windows Live Messenger allowing you to access your Live Favorites.

New Windows Live Toolbar Add-ins:…

Are you tired of checking your voice mail from home, your office, AND your mobile phone? Do you want to be able to manage all of your voice mail from one central location? Well, believe it or not Windows Live …

Microsoft appears to have begun their rollout of the Windows Live ID branding with Passport this evening.

It appears Microsoft has tweaked the original Passport logo so its slightly different signifying the change to the Windows Live ID branding. …

Mary Jo Foley over at Microsoft-Watch reveals Microsoft is developing a virtual harddrive service for Windows Live. Here's a little more from Mary Jo:

"Sources close to Microsoft described that service as one where Microsoft would back up users'

We're hearing that the Microsoft and Vexcel deal is now formally agreed and the acquisition is final, so expect an announcement soon. Vexcel will become part of the Virtual Earth Business Unit and as such no longer take on new …

Ken Levy points to a new site run by Ronny Kohavi, a "general manager in Windows Live division" at http://exp-platform.com/ According to Ken's post:

The Experimentation Platform will enable product groups at Microsoft and developers using Windows Live to innovate

The WSUS Product Team reports a new product catagory has been added for Windows Live Services.

Today you will see a new product category in WSUS for Windows Live. Windows Live online services include web-based products for consumers, such as