October, 2007

Windows Live Calendar Beta – Get ready!

Update: Windows Live Calendar beta has now launched. Check it out at http://calendar.live.com or read our first review.

We haven’t talked about Windows Live Calendar for a while now, in fact our last post was about the start of the …

Easy Way To Upload Silverlight Apps To Windows Live

image Back when I wrote about adding a Silverlight Streaming app to your blog, I showed you how to add the Silverlight app to your SLS account at http://silverlight.live.com/. Well, now there is an addon for Expression Encoder (thanks …

Catching up on some stuff we forgot to tell you about

Been a lot going on with Windows Live in the past few weeks, with Events, and new Live Search and Maps features, Linked IDs, and Gallery.  Unfortunately when we’re scrambling to keep up with the big stories (not that we’re …

Messenger 9, GTalk integration, Messenger API, new client for Mac OS X – news unveiled at Georgia Tech presentation (whew)

In a presentation to the Georgia Institute of Technology’s IEEE Student Branch yesterday, Microsoft employee and Georgia Tech (edit: graduate former student – Jenks went to work for MS before graduating) Andrew Jenks had some surprises in store. “It wasn’t …

Windows Live Developer Event In The UK

If you’re in the UK and interested in developing using the Windows Live Platform, then Microsoft are going to be hosting a developer event next Tuesday (6th November) at their Reading HQ.

From the event page:

Overview:

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Yes, the Live Search and Live Search Traffic gadgets are gone: security concerns cited

We’ve received some tips and comments about the Live Search Traffic gadget for Vista being removed from Windows Live Gallery when it updated last week, and indeed it is gone, along with the Live Search gadget.  In an email to Donavon West, …

adCenter Gatineau beta launches: Microsoft website analytics

While not strictly a Windows Live product, website analysis is an important tool that has been missing from Microsoft’s toolkit.  That changed today, as Microsoft’s new addition to its adCenter suite of advertiser and website owner tools, code named Gatineau, …

What’s the status of MSN Groups? Are indications of its demise “a hoax”?

Hmm I seem to have created a bit of a stir over at MSN Groups.  When I posted this week on the Spaces worldwide numbers, I mentioned Windows Live Groups, and it was picked up at Managers Helping Managers, …

“10 Reasons to Love the New Live Search Maps” says Steve

Live Search Maps Program Manager Steve Lombardi posted yesterday on 10 cool new features of the new “Gemini” release – we’ve covered some of them here at LiveSide in varying degrees, but there are at least a couple of new …

Windows Live Gallery gets update – Adds Microsoft Points for micropayments

Today sees the update of Windows Live Gallery, the online site where users can personalise their Windows Live experience. From a user’s perspective the update adds the new Wave 2 UI, as well as a new area showcasing gadgets …