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- Microsoft opens up Live Mesh to more testers
- If you were closed out of Microsoft's Live Mesh preview for lack of an invite, you now can get in. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Tester, LiveSide, Live Mesh Team, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Windows Live Calendar to go live, at long last
- Up until recently, the Windows Live team was rolling out new services on an almost weekly basis. But the long-rumored Windows Live Calendar -- for some reason -- never was part of this fast-track of Live service launches. It sounds like that's about to change, however. The...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, LiveSide.Net Site, LiveSide, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-11-04
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- Windows Live Messenger 9: my new best friend
- Windows Live Messenger 9: my new best friendCryptic?Whats with the secret message in the article?RE: Windows Live Messenger 9: my new best friendLiveSide...I see its still stuffed with adverts......thats one reason not to consider it..RE: Windows Live Messenger 9: my new best friendIt's the only way they keep the software...
- Tags: Instant messaging, Web site development, Windows Live Messenger 9, new best friend, Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-09-01
- Windows Live Messenger 9: my new best friend
- What's this? Posting at 4am in the morning? Are you kidding me? No. I can't sleep. Ahh, a sigh of relief, a breath of fresh air, freshly ironed underwear, or the first sip of an ice cold beer after a crap day at work. All these combined...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-08-31
- What's new in Windows Live Messenger 9
- A quick look over the new features of a pre-release Windows Live Messenger 9, how students can use the features to their advantage, and how we'll benefit from it. Thanks for the support of LiveSide, the legends that they are. by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker, Windows Live, Microsoft, Students, Collaboration, Instant messaging, Social networking, WPF, Wave 3
- Image galleries 2008-08-31
- Web archiving enterprises: keep trying
- Through my keen observations, deep procrastination and occasional drunken ramblings, there are three things which annoy me about a service or product before I even use them. These three things, from a consumer's point of view, are the following: having a product with a...
- Tags: Web, Page, Archiving, CSS, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Productivity, Business Intelligence, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-08-24
- Windows Live Wave 3 managed beta begins
- Zack Whittaker was on compassionate leave when this was posted; posted offline and scheduled to release during this week. For many weeks, months, and I'd even say for around a year now, the kind gentry over at LiveSide have been keeping us up...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Beta, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- Microsoft Equipt: student productivity rise likely?
- Probably not. But it's not a bad thing Microsoft have done, and it really shows that they're committed to this "student malarkey" we have going. Today, they announced that project "Albany", now called Microsoft Equipt, has been released into the wild, for the masses who want an all-round suite of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., OneCare, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Microsoft continues paring back the Windows Live family
- Microsoft continues paring back the Windows Live familyIll-informed as usualWide-of-the-mark comment as usual from you Mary-Jo.The tools that you mentioned are not the core set of live services that you think they are. Those are the software bits of the Windows Live software+services model.The services that they are complement are...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Microsoft continues paring back the Windows Live family
- Microsoft is slowly but surely whittling back the unwieldy family of Windows Live services that the company fielded over the past couple of years. The latest candidate set to get the ax is Windows Live Expo, Microsoft's attempt to take on Craig's List in the classified ads...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Service, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Microsoft postpones Hotmail-Outlook Express cut-off
- Following user outcry over the company's plan to ax access to Windows Live Hotmail from inside Outlook Express e-mail accounts, Microsoft has postponed its planned June 30 cut-off date. As LiveSide.Net notes, Microsoft hasn't provided a new date by which it plans to disable the Outlook Express...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Windows, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Enterprise Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Meshing the desktop into the cloud
- I'm often harsh on Microsoft, but I'm going to lighten up now that it's introduced Live Mesh (great coverage at Liveside, a useful ten points from Mary Jo, more at Techmeme). One of the misconceptions people often have about the Web is that exists 'out there', as...
- Tags: Web, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Mesh, Zintel, Mesh Account Service, Channel Management, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Ten things to know about Microsoft's Live Mesh
- Microsoft took the wraps off Live Mesh at 9 p.m. PDT on April 22, just ahead of the service's official debut at the Web 2.0 Expo this week. (Here's a bunch of screen shots of what testers can expect to see when Microsoft kicks off its...
- Tags: Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Users prevail: Microsoft undoes forced move to Multimap
- Within hours of Microsoft redirecting its UK users from Live Search Maps to Multimap last week, user dissatisfaction spread like wildfire. On Monday, April 14, Microsoft responded and restored full Live Search Maps access to disgruntled users. Microsoft bought Multimap in December 2007 and...
- Tags: U.K., Microsoft Corp., MSN Virtual Earth, Multimap, MultiMap Site, Team Management, Blogging, Web Browsers, Management, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Red Dog: Yet another unannounced Microsoft cloud service
- In the Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie regime of "announce no service before it's done," there have been precious few cloud-computing announcements from Microsoft. That doesn't mean Microsoft is sitting on its software laurels, just waiting for the clouds to pass, however. There are a bunch of...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Team Management, Web Services, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Microsoft to deliver first Live Mesh beta in late April
- After dangling some vague promises about its plans to create seamless social and device "meshes," Microsoft is set to deliver more details about its mesh-syncrhonization strategy -- and deliver its first Live Mesh beta to external testers -- later this month. In a Web 2.0 Expo keynote...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., FolderShare, Web 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Middleware, Internet, Software, Enterprise Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Another unannounced piece of Microsoft's Windows Mobile puzzle: eLive
- Microsoft seems to be continuing to keep most of its Windows Mobile cards close to the vest, even though it is CTIA Wireless week. At the show on April 1, company officials are talking up some of the new features slated for the updates of Windows Live...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., eLive, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Software, Hardware, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Microsoft DeepZoom + PhotoZoom = Another Software+Service combination
- Microsoft is continuing to roll out more Software+Service (S+S) combinations, the latest being the DeepZoom-PhotoZoom combination. DeepZoom is a feature of Silverlight 2, Microsoft's next release of its Flash competitor which is due out this fall. DeepZoom "allows users to explore collections of super high resolution imagery,...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft DeepZoom, PhotoZoom, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Digital Cameras, Microsoft Windows, Digital Photography, Internet, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-09
- Windows Live Platform Services: A guide for the perplexed
- Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie outlined during his Mix '08 keynote this week a very high-level vision about how Microsoft is moving to be more of a utility-computing/cloud-computing vendor. Ozzie didn't talk specifics about any of the plumbing that makes it possible. But David Treadwell, Corporate...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Service, Horizon, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Data Centers, Storage, Software, Hardware, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Microsoft refreshes beta of its Google Docs competitor
- Microsoft has quietly released an update to its Office Live Workspace service, which the company first rolled out in beta form in December 2007. The just-released Office Live Workspace update, according to a posting on LiveSide.Net,includes a new activity pane for keeping track of what's happening in...
- Tags: Microsoft Office Live Workspace, Google Inc., Google Docs, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
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