April, 2007

Omniture to Measure Impact of Microsoft’s i’m Initiative

Omniture, Inc. a leading provider of online business optimization software, yesterday announced it will work with Microsoft on its new Windows Live Messenger i’m Initiative. As you may know every time a customer has a conversation using i’m, Microsoft …

Search Your Way To A New Xbox or Media Centre PC

This has been around for a couple of months now, but with the closing date set for 15th May, that leaves a final month to go in for this competition. So what is it? Well, MSN UK is running a …

Windows Live Hotmail rolls out: our interview with Omar Shahine and Ellie Powers-Boyle

Windows Live Hotmail, a completely rebuilt web based mail client set to replace MSN Hotmail, started its rollout to selected markets this week.  This morning, I talked on the phone with two members of the Windows Live Hotmail team from …

Live Maps lament, and a screencast (and more)

Microsoft Developer Evangelist Peter Laudati wrote last week that Virtual Earth (Live Maps) has been virtually ignored, while the blogging bubble went ga ga over Google’s myMaps feature.  Robert Scoble retorted that Live Maps Collections, while cool, is too …

Comscore search figures for March: another incremental gain for MS

 

Comscore has released its latest online search engine rankings for the US, and Microsoft made another incremental increase in share of online searches in the month of March.  This marks the third gain after a number of months of …

Windows Live Hotmail (final) as early as this week?

Windows Live Hotmail, currently in Milestone 10 of a unique and interesting beta, is set to come out of beta as early as this week, according to a number of indications, including this post on Messenger Stuff.  The …

Windows Live Hotmail launches in Belgium and India

Its been coming for a while but finally some action – Windows Live Hotmail has just been launched in Belgium and India. While there is no change from the M10 build that launched a few weeks ago, its nice to see …

Live Search for Mobile comes to the Blackberry

Mobile users are continuing to feel the love from Windows Live. For those Blackberry users who have been waiting to try out Live Search for Mobile, good news – a Blackberry beta version is now available for you at http://wls.live.com/

Remix contest winners announced

Although Donavon updated his Mix07 post announcing the winners of the Remix contest, I just wanted to give a special mention to a few people who’s names I recognised.

Ian Muir came in the top three with Horror Flick

No more Ideas – beta policy changing?

Last night saw the migration of the Windows Live beta pages from ideas.live.com to get.live.com. While this move now provides a central location for all Windows Live services, it puts a question mark over how future Windows Live betas will …