February, 2010

First look at the new Windows Live Wave 4 header themes

Following our last post on the new Windows Live Wave 4 header, showing you some of its new functionalities and the organisation of services, this time we will show you several of the new themes that will come with …

Engineering Messenger for real relationships

Piero Sierra, Group Program Manager for Windows Live messenger and Windows Live Mail, wrote a very lengthy article about how the team tries to make the Messenger (IM) experience more meaningful and natural.

Take for example the typing indicator, …

What’s the deal with these Microsoft takedown (DMCA) notices?

This week, Cryptome.org, a website that has taken to publishing “secret” guides for law enforcement agencies attempting to gain information held by internet companies such as Microsoft (with Hotmail, Live ID, etc.), Yahoo!, and others, was apparently served a DMCA …

Charlie Kindel on Windows Phone development: integrate, prioritize, focus

windows_phone7_logo Charlie Kindel, the “Partner Group Program Manager for the Windows Phone Application Platform & Developer Experience” (now there’s a mouthful!), announced a new blog right after Windows Phone 7 was revealed at MWC, and his first in-depth post admits that …

Even more Wave 4 screenshots emerge (Part 2)

Following our Part 1 coverage on LiveSino.net and cnBeta.com’s leak of new Windows Live Wave 4 screenshots, this time we’ll take a glimpse at the next version of Windows Live SkyDrive, Family Safety, Sync and Movie Maker. We’ll examine …

Even more Wave 4 screenshots emerge (Part 1)

Looks like someone has been very busy taking/leaking screenshots, as even more of them appeared on cnBeta.com. Starting off with a screenshot of all the Windows Live apps containing the Ribbon:
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In the above screenshot you see (from top …

Windows Phone and Bing Maps

Last week at the Mobile World Congres in Barcelona, Microsoft took the wraps off Windows Phone 7 series. If you’ve watched the keynote (also available on demand) you saw that Windows 7 phones have a Bing button …

Windows Live Photo Gallery Wave 4 to support Geo-tagging

It’s been a crazy weekend with Windows Live Wave 4 screenshots keeps coming. Kip gave us a glimpse in his previous post on Windows Live Photo Gallery Wave 4, and this post will go a bit further as to what …

New Live Writer Wave 4 Screenshots Emerge

Update: Our friend PicturePan2 has posted a couple of higher resolution screenshots over at LiveSino.net, go take a look.

You might remember back in December when Neowin posted pictures of the ribbon that will be appearing in Live Writer …

Weekend glimpses of Wave 4, when will it be released? (take our poll!)

8713_WindowsLiveMessengerWave4M3_5F00_12AC4FD2 In case you missed it over the weekend, our LiveSide colleagues have been busy at work tracking down all the latest Wave 4 news and rumors, very busy in fact.  We reported on some new (apparently internal promotional) screenshots of …