June, 2010

Windows Live Essentials Beta Announced

As we posted last week, the beta will indeed become public sometime tomorrow. Piero Sierra just announced it on Inside Windows Live:

Tomorrow, hot on the heels of the Hotmail roll-out, the new Windows Live Essentials becomes available

Windows Phone 7 Marketplace in action

Here is the full session about Windows Phone 7’s marketplace at TechED 2010. In this video you can see the Marketplace application on a real LG Panther phone, a beta version of the Trial API and more information about unlocking

Windows Live Calendar Wave 4 issue fixed

Windows Live CalendarLast week we posted about Windows Live Calendar Wave 4 experiencing calendar display issues soon after the upgrade. David Dennis, Principal Lead Program Manager of Windows Live Hotmail/Calendar, has kindly commented on our blog post, as well as following up …

New in iTunes: Windows Live Messenger for iPhone now available!

WLMMicrosoft has just released version 1.01 of Windows Live Messenger for iPhone, and it’s available for download now from iTunes.  This new app brings Windows Live Messenger, Hotmail, Windows Live social networking and more to the iPhone and iPod …

Hotmail Wave 4 rollout going….slowly??

We’ve been taking a little Twitter poll this weekend, asking our Twitter followers to reply to us @liveside with #NewHotmailHere or #NoHotmailYet, and the preliminary results aren’t too encouraging: 32 negatives with not a single positive response.

To be …

Windows Live Profile Wave 4: LinkedIn to become a Connected Service, and display names to go away

Windows Live ProfileToday on the Inside Windows Live team blog Omar Shahine (Principal Lead Program Manager for Windows Live) made a blog post about the new Windows Live Profile with particular emphasis to changes made to privacy control. We covered the new

New Bing mobile site, Facebook results, and Yahoo!(?): tips from all over!

Bing is set to announce its Spring update next week at an event in Los Angeles, but we’re already getting tips from all over spotting new stuff. First up is a new mobile experience (at leas from Zune HDs, can …

Windows Live Essentials Beta On Thursday?

According to Francisco Martin Garcia, we’ll see the beta of Windows Live Essentials next Thursday/Friday (24/25 June). He also notes that the final is delayed by half a month.

Let’s hope he is right, we’ve waited long enough now!  …

Are you The King Of Bing Maps?

imageWe already mentioned it briefly here, The King Of Bing Maps Contest. This week Chris Pendleton wrote a bit more about it and said that, on top of the prizes, he’ll promote the winner and his/her app:

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Windows Live Calendar is now mobile!

David Dennis over on Windows Live Inside just announced that you can now access and manage your Windows Live Calendar from any web-enabled mobile phone.

You can browse upcoming events and see when you’re free so you can quickly add …