March, 2007

More on new stuff at Live Maps/Virtual Earth

Here’s the list of new stuff on Live Maps – from the Live Maps / Virtual Earth blog.  In addition, the first of European cities in 3D are available – Plymouth, Cardiff, Bristol, Gloucester, and Wolverhampton – here’s the

Announcing LiveSino.net

LiveSide in Chinese! – Announcing LiveSino.net

We have been working with our “LiveSide representative to China”, Picturepan2, and he and his team are pleased to announce our collaboration project, LiveSino.net.

Our friends in China will translate LiveSide stories into Chinese, …

3.8 Terabytes of new stuff at Live Maps/Virtual Earth – including Birds Eye for Chicago

A quick note posted today on the Live Maps / Virtual Earth blog announcing a major imagery release, including Birds Eye imagery for Chicago, along with “dozens of other cities, including tons of European imagery”. 

The Live Maps guys posted …

Live Labs Unveils New Mobile Web Browser Technology

Microsoft yesterday announced the public preview of a technology that the Microsoft Live Labs has been toying with for a new mobile browser that will bring a more desktop-like experience to the user on their mobile phone. The technology, know …

Live Search shuts down use of some advanced query syntax

Eytan Seidman, a lead program manager for Live Search, confirmed on the MSNSearch blog that some of the advanced query syntax in the Live Search engine, such as link:, linkdomain:, and inurl: has been turned off, due to “what appears …

Windows Live Core – the Software as a Service platform

While Ray Ozzie has been keeping details of his Software as a Service platform quiet, some small bits of information are emerging from other members on his team. Two of his direct reports, David Treadwell and Amitabh Srivastava are both listed …

MSN Soapbox closed to new users amid piracy concerns

ZDNet News is reporting that MSN Soapbox is being closed to new users for up to 2 months as Microsoft sorts out piracy issues.  ZDNet quotes Adam Sohn, a director in Microsoft’s online-services group, as saying that no new subscribers will …

Windows Live Hotmail M10 begins rollout

Thanks to Brandon for pointing to the Windows Live Hotmail team’s Spaces blog, announcing the upcoming rollout of M10 (milestone 10) of the Windows Live Hotmail (formerly Windows Live Mail, formerly Kahuna) beta.  According to the blog entry:

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Live Search and Ad Platform announced

Microsoft today announced the creation of a new group spun out of Windows Live, the Live Search and Ad Platform.  Live Search (formerly Windows Live Search, formerly MSN Search) will join adCenter in a new group that will not report …

Writing A Quick Application That Uses Windows Live ID

With the release of the Windows Live ID SDK comes the ability to add the trusted security of Windows Live to your application, but how much work is needed to actually get this functionality into your program? Turns out, not …