2008

Windows Live Sync to be released next month

We told you that Windows Live FolderShare will be rebranded as Windows Live Sync. We also reported that Windows Live Sync will play a part in both Photo Gallery and possibly Toolbar. Today the FolderShare (or Windows Live …

Conversational Questions Now Allowed On QnA

QnA was originally designed to provide quality answers to search engines, Live Search in particular, but the Community wants and needs more than informational questions. So based on feedback from the QnA Community, the team has decided to make it …

Tracking Wild Fires With Pitney Bowes And Virtual Earth

We already told you where you can report Storms and track Hurricanes with Virtual Earth, now you can also track fires (US)!

FireLocatorBetaPitney Bowes created The Fire Locator:

FireLocator is an application created by Pitney Bowes Advanced Concepts

Windows Live Spaces Wave 3 Update Promises Cleaner, Better Looking Space

WLSpacesJust like the other sites/services, Windows Live Spaces is also getting a Wave 3 overhaul. Can’t stay behind now can they? Over at The Spaces Team Blog, they already started to blog about the upcoming changes. Coming soon… …

Microsoft discontinues Windows Live OneCare – offers lightweight alternative for free

Microsoft just announced that it is discontinuing Windows Live OneCare from 2009, replacing it with a free lightweight alternative, codenamed “Morro”.  The new product will be available towards the end of 2009, and provide complete malware protection to consumers, at …

WWT: Explore The Universe With WALL•E And Andrew Stanton

Microsoft Research teamed up with Disney•Pixar and created a virtual tour of the universe hosted by none other then……WALL•E!
WALL•E is assisted by award winning director Andrew Stanton, who narrates this tour.

“Using Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope, WALL•E …

Looking at the past – a vision for Messenger four years ago

Looking through my files today, I came across a set of “MSN Wave 11” (v7) concept images that were released back in December 2004, when Windows Live wasn’t even around yet (according to Wikipedia, Windows Live was first announced …

Windows Live Profile – introducing your Web Activities, Networks and Lists

Profile One of the new services as part of the Windows Live Wave 3 launch is Windows Live Profile. To put it simply, Profile is the place to display information about yourself to others – as opposed to Windows Live Home

Images in Live Search suggestions

Not sure how widespread (or valuable, for that matter) this is, but just happened to try a search using the upper-right Live Search bar in IE 8 beta 2, and was greeted with some familiar faces:

Live Search Suggestions images

While clicking on the …

A note about Hotmail, SkyDrive and Photos storage space

Hotmail and SkyDrive In our previous posts covering the upcoming features in Hotmail and SkyDrive, we seemed to have missed some hints at possible Hotmail and SkyDrive integration. People have been asking for this for a long time, and now it finally …