May, 2006

Windows Live OneCare Now Available!

WOCL Logo.gifAccording to the Windows Live OneCare Blog, starting this evening – Windows Live OneCare is now available for purchase and download!

Beginning today, May 31st, Windows Live OneCare is available in over a dozen of the top retail stores nationwide

Windows Live OneCare release on Thursday

Microsoft's entry into the anti-virus software market, Windows Live OneCare, is slated for general release on Thursday, June 1, according to PC World. OneCare, recently certified by ICSA Labs and West Coast Labs "as an effective solution to combat …

Safety Center enters new markets

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Windows Live Safety Center has gone global and is now available in 43 markets. If you are like me and are frequently asked to help friends and family out when they contract the latest virus or spyware, then this service …

Major Xbox Live update expected

xboxlogosmall.pngWe probably don't spend near enough time here at LiveSide on Xbox and Xbox Live, but there's a bunch of Xbox sites, and of course they're all abuzz this week with news of the upcoming major update to Xbox Live, …

Windows Live SDK for Gadgets

WLLive.com icon.gifAnother Windows Live SDK has been released, this time for Windows Live Gadgets, and you can "start using this SDK right now to build Gadgets that run on Live.com" according to James Lau on the Gadgets blog. The Live …

Live.com minor update + Gadget SDK

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The live.com team just released another small update, as well as the Windows Live Gadgets SDK. Changes include: – Performance improvements – Drag and drop gadgets to a specific page – Ability to create folders within "My Stuff" – …

OneCare gets certified

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The Windows Live OneCare team can breathe a little easier today. OneCare has been officially certified by ICSA Labs and West Coast Labs. This means that two of the world's most trusted security firms have deemed that WL OneCare is …

More on the Spaces URL change

Well it's nice to know that someone's listening, at least. The Spacecraft points to Gregg Phipps blog entry, a PM for Spaces, where he explains the necessity for the URL change, the steps they are taking to mitigate the …

Outlook Add-In for Windows Live Local now available

WLLlocal icon.gifThe Outlook add-in for Live Local, which adds a location tab and some toolbar buttons to your Outlook calendar, is available for download at outlook.local.live.com. With it, you can plot locations and driving directions on a Live Local map, …

More on the numbers: Moz talks about Spaces

Spaces icon.gifMoz Hussain, a product planner for Spaces, talks more about the numbers and how they relate to Spaces in a blog entry at Moz at Work. One interesting point is that Spaces is the most worldly of perhaps any …