May, 2006

MSN Spaces Now Largest Blogging Service Worldwide

Spaces icon.gifStats from comScore today to be published later today show that with over 100 million unique visitors, MSN Spaces is the most widely used blogging service worldwide. The report shows that "total number of unique visitors to MSN Spaces has

Traffic and Collections on Local.Live.com

WLLlocal icon.gifOoooh look some new toys just appeared on Local.Live.com. A new way to collect, save, and share pushpins and other info called Collections, including the ability to save Collections to Live Favorites, and a new Traffic map. Hey look even …

Spaces to change urls again

Spaces icon.gifA post on the MSN Spaces team blog warns users that Spaces urls will be changing yet again; from "spaces.msn.com/blogname" to "blogname.spaces.msn.com".

On and after June 1st, all viewers and users going to the "old" URL will be automatically redirected

Motorola to deliver Messenger phone, more hardware to come

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During his keynote today at the Microsoft Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2006, Gates announced that more partners are coming. Microsoft announced that Motorola is the newest hardware partner for Windows Live

Windows Live Search for the desktop: A Single Point of Entry

More details are emerging on the latest Windows Live offering, the unfortunately named Windows Live Search (for the desktop). As this search product will be built around Windows Vista and Office Sharepoint Server 2007, products not yet released to market, …

Windows Live Dev teaser site launched

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Earlier today, Microsoft put a little teaser site up on dev.live.com, indicating the impending launch of a developer site for the Windows Live Platform. Chris and I talked about this with Ken Levy in our interview. If you …

Custom Domains Manager gets update

WLDomains icon.gifGus Pinto, the creator of the Windows Live Custom Domains Manager tool just sent me an email about an update to the product. For those unsure about what Custom Domains is, this service lets you use all the Windows Live …

Windows Live Mail experiences issues – Rolled back to M5

WLMail new icon.gifEarlier today (or late last night depending on your timezone) Windows Live Mail was rolled back to its previous build, undoing the M6 upgrade users experienced at the beginning of the week. As the post on the Mail team blog

Windows Live Gadgets SDK coming soon, According to new blog

WLLive.com icon.gifJust appearing is a new Windows Live Gadget blog, by James Lau. In typical "one name for many different things" Microsoft naming style, there are three different kinds of gadgets: Windows Live gadgets, that work on Live.com, Windows Vista Sidebar …

Windows Live Search (client) demo available on-demand

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The Windows Live Search (client) demo that was given a few days ago is now available in the on-demand webcast. Skip through to 27.03 and you'll be able to see some of what the product can do. Remember, this …