Archive: Posts Tagged ‘LiveSide’

Windows Live ID outage: Even MS servers are not perfect

Comments Off February 17th, 2010

There has been an outage affecting customers of Windows Live Messenger and Hotmail. It lasted about one hour; people could not sign in using Windows Live ID during this time.

Windows Live and You: “Messenger is like the phone: I just use it” (Kip Kniskern)

Comments Off May 29th, 2009

What’s the site where you get Windows Live news first? — Probably your answer is “LiveSide”, and that has its reason. I had an interesting discussion with Kip Kniskern, who is one of the authors at LiveSide.net. mynetx: Please tell me a bit about yourself. Is your life directly or indirectly involved with Windows Live? [...]

Windows Live and You: A Chinese Microsoft fanboy (Yan Zhu)

Comments Off May 8th, 2009

Continuing the series of interviews for Windows Live and You, I talked with the owner of Chinese LiveSide, which is LiveSino.net. He lives in Shanghai, China; many of you will probably know him as “Picturepan2” while his real name is Yan Zhu (??). mynetx: Sorry to steal your night, I find it good that you [...]

New IM networks on Windows Live: Will it stay just a wish?

3 comments April 2nd, 2009

Dear readers, Adding support for additional instant messaging networks has always been on a high place on the wish list for Windows Live Messenger. People were excited when they have to know that Microsoft and Yahoo would cooperate to allow using the networks in both company’s clients, back in 2005. People were even more excited [...]

New IM networks for Windows Live

11 comments April 1st, 2009

In an internal message to developers, the Windows Live team has announced the long-awaited integration of several instant messaging networks to work together with Windows Live. Among these networks to be added are ICQ and Skype as well as AIM, Facebook Chat and Google Talk. “We are currently aiming to achieve full integrative support for [...]

Windows Live Sync released

1 comment December 11th, 2008

The former Windows Live FolderShare has been renamed to Windows Live Sync and released to the public. When I installed the new client, however, I couldn’t find any differences to the old FolderShare, except for the Wave 3 sign-in wizard. The team reports some enhancements in its new Live Sync blog: Higher file limits—up to [...]

Windows Live Wave 3 – Preview to the new features

Comments Off November 13th, 2008

Microsoft has announced details on the future, the new, Windows Live, and I am bringing them to you like I promised. Over the coming weeks, the next generation of Windows Live will become available at www.windowslive.com. The new Windows Live experience is enhanced by Microsoft partners with feeds from third-party sites that help you stay [...]