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There's some big announcements (in my opinion anyway) from Windows Live today. Read here:   David Treadwell on New and Updated Windows Live Platform Services http://dev.live.com/blogs/devlive/archive/2008/02/27/213.aspx   The highlights are: Messenger API that enables you to build your own Messenger client Contacts API ...

One month ago I published a review of Google Maps for Mobile and Windows Live Search for Mobile which you can read here. Today Gear Digest have published their own, much more detailed, comparison of the two as well as Yahoo's similar offering. Unlike myself who just did a feature-by-feature comparison Gear Digest make a firm ...

Version 2 of Windows Live Search for Mobile (WLS) has been released. Read the announcement here which contains screenshots and in this case a picture really does tell a thousand words. Here's the list of new features:Get movie timesSearch for restaurants and see ratingsWLS will now cache onto your storage card if you have ...

That's a question I started asking myself yesterday as I read this post from Yaron Goland. Here's a sprinkling from that entry:Sigh…. I know… I know… Microsoft… evil… proprietary… no cross platform… Windows über alles… etc. Whatever. Look folks, this is really easy. I work for ...

Google have created quite a stir with their Google Maps for Mobile tool (my colleague Keni Barwick has talked about it here) but did you know that Microsoft have had a very similar tool called Windows Live Search for Mobile available for alot longer? These two products are the best examples that I can think of to illustrate the ...

  Ever heard of SharedView? Its a new tool (currently in beta) that Microsoft are bringing out to offer remote sharing of applications and desktops. I gave it a go today and was most impressed, managing to remotely control my home PC from my desk at work (it was for work purposes - I promise).   Here's a list of FAQs that ...

If you are one of the more than 240 million users of Live/MSN Messenger and you have a web browser on your phone then as of today you can stay signed-in to Live messenger even when you're out and about. If you follow http://mobile.live.com from your phone you *should* see the link to login. This guy has got ...

Yesterday I posted a blog entry talking about the imminent announcement of Windows Live Folders. Microsoft will be hoping that this offering starts to drive heavy adoption of other Windows Live services - it could be their make or break. Hence, I've been thinking about what offerings they will have around this and also how other ...

The much-vaunted storage-in-the-cloud service from Microsoft's Windows Live is soon to see the light of day. Oft referred to as Live Drive, it seems as tho Sky Drive or Windows Live Folders is the more likely moniker. Shame - I kinda liked Live Drive. As usual Liveside were first with the scoop:"Live Drive" is almost here - Windows ...

Microsoft have shown in the past that they will offer different methods of getting at their search index - probably the most famous of which was Ms Dewey. Now a new one has come out. Unfortunately I don't know what to call it because they haven't bothered to tell us but you can see it at http://search.imagine-live.com. It ...