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- Windows Live Wave 3: Microsoft's kinder and simpler consumer services strategy?
- Windows Live Wave 3: Microsoft's kinder and simpler consumer services strategy?So why the deemphasizing of Live Spaces?I find that strange that the Windows Live Team is not updating Spaces for Wave 3. Right now, the service is suffering from a number of issues: commentary spam, performance and the fact that...
- Tags: Operating systems, start-page, Microsoft Corp., strategy, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Windows Live Wave, simpler consumer services strategy, consumer services strategy, Windows Live Wave 3
- Discussion threads 2008-11-13
- Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
- Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet; Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...
- Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Broadscale Windows Live Wave 3 beta begins
- According to the independent LiveSide.net site that tracks all things Microsoft-Live-related, Microsoft is kicking off the Windows Live Wave 3 family of betas on September 17 -- and they have a download link from Microsoft.com to prove it. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Microsoft adds new features to Office Live Small Business
- Microsoft has started what is expected to be a four- to six-week rollout of new features and functionality for its Office Live Small Business service. Office Live Small Business (formerly known as "Office Live" before last year's rebranding) is a set of Web service add-ons designed primarily...
- Tags: Microsoft Office Live, Small Business, Microsoft Corp., Service, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- Five take aways on Microsoft's new Live Search
- Microsoft took the covers off the fall release of its Live Search engine on September 26 at its invitation-only Searchification event for press and analysts. I wasn't there, but like many, I was briefed and embargoed about what's new in the fall update. (The embargoes ended at...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Live Search, Microsoft Outlook, Vertical Industries, Advertising & Promotion, Benefits, Healthcare, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Human Resources, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-09-26
- Microsoft's renamed Windows Live SkyDrive service gets a refresh
- As LiveSide.net predicted, Microsoft has, indeed, decided to dump the "Windows Live Folders" branding and go with Windows Live SkyDrive for its cloud-storage service that is in beta test.SkyDrive was one of the codenames Microsoft used for its storage service during its development. (Microsoft is saying that LiveDrive also was...
- Tags: Storage, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Service, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-08-09
- Microsoft tweaks the Live side of the house
- On July 1, Microsoft's new fiscal year started with a new slate of Live executives -- or at least a bunch of existing execs with new titles and responsibilities.Brian Arbogast, who had been running Microsoft's Windows Live Developer & Communications Platform for the past few years, is now the Corporate...
- Tags: Xbox Live, Windows Live, Office Live, Database, CRM Live, Corporate strategy, Code names
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- Next-gen Windows Live services to provide software plus a service
- After months of near silence, Microsoft's Windows Live team is starting to talk about the consumer-facing element of its Software+Services strategy.Software+Services (S+S) is Microsoft's alternative to software-as-a-service SaaS. Unlike Google, Salesforce.com and other pure-play Web 2.0 companies, Microsoft is making sure that there's both a services and a software component...
- Tags: Software, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Service, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-06-27
- Microsoft's Live Hotmail-Outlook Connector beta ready for download
- Microsoft announced in early May that it would make available within a few weeks a beta of a connector for Outlook 2003/2007 users who want to manage their Windows Live Hotmail accounts from inside Outlook.The beta of that connector, as of this week, is now available for download from the...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Windows Live
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- Microsoft delivers a trio of new Windows Live betas
- Microsoft delivers a trio of new Windows Live betasWindows Live Writer has a Lotta New FeaturesMary Jo -Apparently the Live Writer team updated the site after you filed your story. Live Writer has many new and useful features, especially inline table editing and support for Blogger Labels.I've been a devout...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live Writer, Microsoft Corp., Live Writer, Microsoft Windows Live, Windows Live Beta, Microsoft Delivers, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-05-30
- Microsoft assembles its All Star team to tackle its Cloud OS
- The Windows-Live watchers over on LiveSide.Net started drawing up the roster of whos on the Windows Live Core team. It looks like Microsoft is putting a lot of its All Stars on the Live Core team. On the Microsoft org chart, development and engineering for both Windows and...
- Tags: Operating systems, Windows Live Core, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, team, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-03-26
- Windows Live update: Microsoft rebrands again
- No, there isnt a service at least not yet named Windows Live Update. This is just an update to my post from last week in which I tried to make sense of Microsofts Windows Live strategy and properties. In the past seven days, Microsoft has renamed at least...
- Tags: Code names, Corporate strategy, Windows Live
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- Windows Live: A guide for the perplexed
- I happen to consider Microsofts Windows Live initiative to be of huge strategic significance to Microsoft 2.0, or however you want to describe the Microsoft of the future. But I know there are lots of company watchers, partners and customers who consider Live to be nothing but Microsofts...
- Tags: Windows client, Windows Live, Corporate strategy, Windows Mobile, Code names, Xbox Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Live
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- Windows Live ID SDK makes its first public appearance
- Microsoft has been fleshing out the Windows Live development platform for almost a year now. One nagging piece has been missing, until this week, that is, was the Windows Live ID software development kit SDK. Microsoft quietly posted to the Connect download site an alpha release of the Live...
- Tags: Windows Live, Development tools, Security, Microsoft Windows Live, SDK
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
- Are Microsoft's online advertising tools enough to trump Google?
- In the Google vs. Microsoft battle, the metric most often compared is search share. In that category, its evident that Microsoft isnt even holding its own; it is losing steadily. But what about in online-advertising tools? Can Microsoft parlay its software-development experience into superior tools for those willing to...
- Tags: Windows Live, Office Live, Corporate strategy, Code names, adCenter, Microsoft Corp., advertisement
- Blog posts 2007-01-17
- A (Microsoft) code name a day: G2
- Even though more and more teams at Microsoft seem to be shying away from christening their fledgling products with good, old-fashioned code names – favoring the ever-so-boring “V.Next” designation instead -- there are still some who are doing so. Microsoft code names always have piqued my interest....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, G2 Best guess, codename, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-12-22
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