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- Free Silverlight streaming service to be replaced by paid Azure-hosted service
- Microsoft is discontinuing its free Silverlight Streaming service and replacing it with a paid, Azure-hosted service by the end of calendar 2009. Microsoft is confirming the report I saw on LiveSide.Net from October 18. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- When will Microsoft's Live Mesh matter?
- I consider live Mesh to be one of the killer apps...... on my Windows Mobile phone. That explains a lot there. If Microsoft can't get Windows Mobile straight, what hope is there for ancillary services?it is oddIt's bizarre that they haven't used it in other ways. I love it...
- Tags: Mobile operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Live Mesh matter, Microsoft Live Mesh
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Microsoft Live Labs moves ahead with 'Seahorse' rich-client application
- Seahorse Office Web AppsGiven the comments about rich client apps with ties to web, client side documents and managing and sharing content - could this be part of ongoing thinking for Office Web Apps, maybe powerpoint, or manipulating large word docs? Office Web AppsHi. No, I think these two things...
- Tags: cloud computing, Microsoft Corp., Office Web Apps, Office Web, Web application, Seahorse, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- Microsoft cuts Windows Live Messenger access for users in five countries
- Microsoft cuts Windows Live Messenger access for users in five countriesWay to go Microsoft!!!So much for Obama's change with Cuba!Now Microsoft is joining the embargo!Liveside was quoting Messenger Support blog and now that Microsoft posting has been removed/edited. Check Liveside again for an updateKnowlege as to what is happening?It's Microsoft,...
- Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Now Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft Windows Live
- Discussion threads 2009-05-22
- Would you 'Kumo' it?
- A few months back, I noted Microsoft had been exploring some new possibilities for rebranding its search engine -- among them, Kumo. The LiveSide.Net folks are reporting tonight that Microsoft has taken control of the Kumo.com domain and has started redirecting internally some of its servers to it. by Mary...
- Tags: Microsoft Live Search, Microsoft Corp., LiveSide.Net Folk, Mergers & Acquisitions, Workforce Management, Corporate Law, Search, Investment, Finance, Human Resources, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-11-23
- 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
- Windows Strata = Microsoft's layered cloud OS
- Windows Strata = Microsoft's layered cloud OSThe cloud providers fully support the platform the provide. On the otherhand, try to get help from MS for problems with your application hosted on Rackspace. It will be a LONG wait.And, end users have to pick their poison. No matter which platform they...
- Tags: Operating systems, Windows Strata, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Is Microsoft still having Windows Live outage problems or not?
- After a full day of downtime for many Windows Live users on February 26 -- an outage the reasons for which Microsoft has declined to explain, but claimed was resolved on February 26 -- some users still seem to have been having ongoing service-access problems. According to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Outage, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Manufacturing, Microsoft Office, Software, Office Suites, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
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