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On Mobile Phones with Internet Access: 1. Go to http://m.live.com to get Web-based Live Search for Mobile devices 2. http://wls.live.com to download and install Live Search for Windows Mobile directly on your Windows Mobile device. The updated Live Search for Windows Mobile now includes voice input (beta version), gas prices, and hours of operation for [...]

Windows Live SkyDrive was updated the first half of October with more storage and new features. Here ius a brief run-down: 1 GB of Free Storage (upgraded from 512MB) RSS Feeds – you can subscribe to RSS feeds on public SkyDrive folders. Whenever a file is updated or added you will recieve a notification vis RSS. [...]

The Windows Live Search Team updated the Live.com Search with a larger index and more power search capabilties which provide increasingly relevant search results. The video search has been updated using Microsoft Silverlight and now previews the first several seconds of a video clip — from the results page — by rolling over the thumbnail with [...]

Microsoft release Popfly to public beta today – October 18, 2007. This comes shortly after the Fall Release of Live Search, Live Search Mobile, and Live Search 411. Popfly is a web tool bases on Microsoft’s Silverlight that allows people to create or edit their own mashups. These mashups can them be used in a web [...]

Windows Live Essentials Dashboard brings several Windows Live products into a single interface to easily launch the select Windows Live services. The Window Live Dashboard shortcut is automatically placed in the ‘Startup’ menu during installation to launch Windows Live Dashboard at user login. At Windows login, after the Windows Live Dashboard is opened, you are prompted to login [...]

The current update for Windows Live Messenger Beta has ‘Rhapsody Music Service’ selecet for install by default. Looks like Microsoft may be joining the crowd with having 3rd party software installed with it’s free services for either a paid endorsement — or possibly it was forced to do this by the court ruling between Real [...]

Google’s Gmail keeps the interface clean and simple. There is a small one line text based add at the top of the email box frame. The user interface is simple but not usable as the Windows Live Mail in my opinion. Microsoft Windows Live Mail has two huge banner ads one at the top and [...]