May, 2008

Live Search Club revised with a new look

Live Search Club, where you play games to win prizes by using Live Search (and in the process gaming Live Search’s share numbers), has recently updated to a new clean look:

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While the market share analysts may …

Office Live Workspace: Languages And Other Updates

Besides in English, Office Live Workspace (Beta) has also been made available in French, German, Japanese and Spanish. Support for more languages will be added later this year. So how does this affect sharing and collaborating with users in …

Windows Live For Nokia Now Available In 33 Different Countries

The Windows Live Services for Nokia has just been made available in 7 new countries. It already was available in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, …

Windows Sysinternals: Now Live

The Sysinternals web site was created in 1996 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell to host their advanced system utilities and technical information. Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July, 2006. Whether you’re an IT Pro or a developer, you’ll find Sysinternals …

Microsoft To Offer Multimedia Training On Holland America Cruise Lines

Surely on a cruise from Holland America Cruise Lines you’ll have a good time. But how to pass that on to family and friends? The Seattle Times just posted an article letting us know Microsoft will be offering digital media

Ray Ozzie to keynote PDC 2008 – Register now

The first content announcements for PDC 2008 have just been made, with Ray Ozzie unsurprisingly keynoting this event. Running from 27-30 October in LA, PDC provides a whole range of developer sessions and announcements.

Although the various sessions are still …

BBC and Microsoft run UK developer event – Mashed

If you’re a developer and interested in working with some cool technologies at a BBC hack day, then check out Mashed 08. Being held in London at the Alexandra Palace on June 21-22, this is the BBC’s very own …

Windows Live Agents SDK Released

The Windows Live Agents blog posted a couple of weeks back that a new version of the Platform and SDK was coming soon, and that day is seemingly upon us. In a blog entry that has just gone up …

Why Sinofsky’s head-in-sand approach doesn’t work for Windows Live

What happens when you take the man in charge of the world’s most-used operating system and ask him to talk about the future? Not a lot when that man is Steven Sinofsky.

Ina Fried from Cnet today posted an interview

Virtual Earth Control for Visual Studio 2008 Previewed at Remix Australia

I was very proud to announce and show for the first time in public Microsoft’s upcoming Virtual Earth control for Visual Studio 2008 as part of the Windows Live session at Australia’s remix event. Remix Australia was held last week …