March, 2009

Zune coming to Windows Mobile, but not until WM7: report

WMPowerUser is reporting today that they’ve heard that Zune is coming to Windows Mobile, but not in 6.5.  According to them, Zune for Windows Mobile won’t be coming until Windows 7, but that it will be a “pretty full implementation …

New Office Live Workspace Template For Travel

Always worried if you packed everything for your trip? Are the ones left behind fully informed? Office Live Workspace has a new template to help you with all this.

OLWsNewTravelWorkspace

To create, just sign in to your account and in the …

Live Mesh version update: bug fixes, new features

If you have Live Mesh for Windows installed, today you should be receiving a version update, to 0.9.3432.31, according to a post on the Live Mesh forums.  Included in the update are both bug fixes (including optimized MOE CPU/memory …

GeoSynth: Microsoft’s answer to Google Street View?

Pocket-lint, the “largest independent gadget news and reviews site in the UK”, is reporting today that Microsoft plans to take on Google’s Street View with a “public-led” offering based on PhotoSynth technology and Silverlight to “allow users to upload …

Windows Live Photos integrates with FrameIt

We told you it was coming the last time we told you about the new Windows Live FrameIt, and we’ve seen FrameIt integrated with Facebook already. This time it’s Microsoft’s very own service that gets the integration – yes you …

Windows Live Mythbusters Part II

A few weeks ago our friend Dena over at Neowin caught a Windows Live live commercial on Mythbusters, and tonight, LiveSide reader Orion was able to capture a new one:

[View:http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=84515589-c623-4f51-9f80-de2166bd805e:400:0]

Thanks to Orion for taking the time to and having …

Windows Live / Facebook integration coming in April?

Another day, another gem coming from Twitter.  This time, TechCrunch found a tweet by a Microsoft Advertising marketing manager for Southeast Asia (since taken down), which appears to reveal the timing of Facebook integration into Windows Live:

Facebook will be

Hotmail Web Messenger returns (or does it?)

Web Messenger, expected as part of the Wave 3 update to Windows Live Hotmail but only seen in fits and starts, appears to be making a comeback.  We spotted Web Messenger in December, only to discover that we were still …

Live Writer Backup Released

Ok, so you got me, this is one of those shameless plugs posts. However, this is something that could benefit all you bloggers out there. Quite some time ago now (over two years!) I released my very first …

The one where we messed up on Twitter accounts for Live Search

The other day we posted a “tweet” from “livesearch”, on Kumo being “only a test name”.  We posted on it after seeing it retweeted numerous times, including by a number of people we know to work at Microsoft (but that’s …