I am hearing from more sources that there will indeed be a beta tomorrow for the new Windows Live Essentials suite but more than that it is thought that Microsoft will announce the beta tonight with downloads to follow tomorrow, June 24rd . The announcement today, 23rd, is expected to start at 11 PM GMT. [...]

Today Microsoft have released their app for the iOS platform in the way of a Windows Live Messenger app, we have known this was coming for some time. The app allows users to chat to their contacts, both Windows Live and Yahoo! Messenger, view the updates from friends via Messenger Social, edit, upload and share [...]

Francisco Martin Garcia has just posted an exciting article about Windows Live Wave 4, expect to see the beta of Windows Live Essentials 2011 next Thursday/Friday, June 24th/25th, depending on where in the world you live. He claims this is 100% confirmed, which fits in very nicely with what I have heard, and I have [...]

Today Microsoft have started prepping us for information soon to come out from them about Messenger Connect on a new blog on the Windows Team Blog named Windows Live for Developers. We can expect to hear news about: Code tips and tricks – code-a-plenty from JavaScript to RESTful endpoints with a little AuthZ/N mixed in. [...]

If I were you I’d beck your Hotmail as you might just have received the new version of Hotmail with Office integration, new functions and refined interface. That’s right, not only have Microsoft started selling Office 2010 today but the roll out of the new Hotmail has begun. Microsoft, this morning, posted an article stating [...]

Whilst checking out the Xbox press room on the Microsoft News Center I saw a new icon for sharing the website on Windows Live; it used to be a Windows icon and now its the Messenger icon. Being the enquiring type I wondered how easy it is to share a webpage and found it to [...]

Now that the roll out of Windows Live Wave 4 has started I thought I would share with some of my thoughts and opinions about the suite of services both the good and bad. There are many aspects about Windows Live Wave that I love; in fact many, many more things I love than I [...]

I have just woken up and after checking Twitter  see that Windows Live Office has been launched at http://office.live.com which is excellent news! I then wondered if it was possible to change the theme of the Live suite of service with the new headers and it is. I then wanted to check if the older [...]

Microsoft have released another website today in aid of informing people about what is coming with the large update to Windows Live, http://explore.live.com/. As you would expect there is lots of information about the new features of the Windows Live applications and services but there are two things that show even more of the update [...]

Just in case you weren’t aware Microsoft have updated its windowslivepreview.com page with lots of new information, images and videos about the Windows Live Essentials suite. There seems to be quite a bit of praise for some of the new features of the applications, especially the Fuse feature of Photo Gallery. I shan’t be writing [...]