October, 2008

Windows Live Essentials strikes back – completing the Windows 7 experience

The Original Windows Live EssentialsRemember Windows Live Essentials, the service that went through its early beta stages back in 2006 and never made it out of beta, that’s meant to “offer integrated and bundled e-mail, instant messaging, photo-sharing, blog publishing, security services and …

Office In The Cloud

In all this excitement of PDC, cloud computing (Azure) and Live Mesh updates, there is one piece of cloud related news we haven’t told you about.

Microsoft Office will also be moving towards the cloud! We already …

Live Mesh: Installer For Mobile Fixed

Apparently there were some problems with the Live Mesh Installer for Mobile, these are now fixed!

Thank you for using the Live Mesh for Mobile client! For users who saw a failure to add their mobile phone to their

Live Mesh Beta update – Initial review

Now that the Live Mesh team has finished rolling out their update, here’s a quick overview of the new stuff (beyond the obvious like this now being a beta with worldwide availability).

So I have geeky PC names - sue meProgress meters in the Live Mesh client – …

Live Mesh: Updating Has Begun

The required update we mentioned before, has now begun. Please accept the upgrade when prompted! During the upgrade process Live Mesh will be unavailable (yep, my Notifier has gone gray too). This update contains a number of fixes, and …

Live Mesh video interview parts 1 and 2: Abhay Parasnis and Jeff Hanson

Our coverage of PDC continues with some big announcements about Live Mesh coming out of LA.  Sometime this week you will be required to update Live Mesh, and after that will be introduced to some significant changes.  Beginning with very …

WorldWide Telescope gone 3D – Equinox Beta available now

Yesterday Kip added a nice bonus liveblog covering the keynote of Rick Rash from Microsoft Research, which announced an update to their space-exploration software WorldWide Telescope. Codenamed the “Autumnal Equinox Beta”, the update now features a 3D-engine that …

Windows Live Home beta (accidently) available to public!

As I was checking my Calendar (using the dogfood address we mentioned earlier) today, I unconsciously clicked "Home" to take me back to the usual Windows Live Home, forgetting that I was on the dogfood server. Expecting that I …

One more Liveblog: Rick Rashid from Microsoft Research

A little added bonus today, Rick Rashid, who heads up Microsoft Research, is keynoting.  Anything coming out of MSR is interesting and fun, so it should be a good hour:…

The Ray Ozzie PDC: clarity emerges from the cloud

While the Professional Developer’s Conference has traditionally been associated with the operating system it introduces, make no mistake: This is the Ray Ozzie PDC.  Windows 7 made for a nice bit of eye candy after the ethereal and hard to …