Only one day later, another set of Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 screenshots has been leaked to the web, this time by Chinese website cnBeta.com. Aggregating all the screenshots that we’ve seen in the past few days, we’re guessing …

A new Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 screenshot seems to have surfaced on the web via a person named Zukona (thanks to MessengerAdictos.com), who claims that the screenshot is from Messenger Wave 4 Milestone 3. While we can’t be …

Back in December Patchou, creator of Messenger Plus! (Live), wrote a lengthy article about the history of Messenger Plus!. In that article he announced that he would take a step back (there’s only so much one man can …

The European Union granted approval today for the Microsoft deal to purchase Yahoo!’s search business, and in a press release, Yahoo! announced that “implementation of the deal is expected to begin in the coming days”.  From the press release:…

Luke Wroblewski, Chief Design Architect at Yahoo!, has put together a nice little collection of Windows Phone 7 Series “teases and transitions”, and dives a bit deeper into them on his personal blog:

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On his blog post, …

We’ve been a bit obsessed busy with Windows Phone news this week, but we wanted to circle back and catch up on a news item from last week, where Facebook opened up Facebook Chat to 3rd party clients using the …

With the announcement of Windows Phone 7 Series at Mobile World Conference at Barcelona yesterday, the blogosphere has been flooded with Windows Phone news, and LiveSide is no exception. If you watched the press conference by Steve Ballmer yesterday (if …

While Windows Mobile 6.x apps, available in the Windows Mobile Marketplace, aren’t anywhere near as prolific as iPhone apps (by a long shot), there are still unanswered questions about whether or not these apps will work on the new phones.  …

Just about everything on the Live.com domain is down, for us and for our readers around the world.  A ping to live.com times out:

EDIT: Well you learn something new every day: Microsoft does not respond to pings, according to …

Remember the Race To Market Developer Challenge? Well, today some of the winners got announced over at The Windows Mobile Developer Blog.

• The winner for most downloaded app is Meon Lite from Manbolo.
• The winner for highest value