Now you can send instant messages from the Windows Live Hotmail and People pages! This means that, even if you’re on a public computer where Windows Live Messenger isn’t installed, you can still send IMs to your Messenger contacts. Customers in Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and USA will see this feature for [...]

Today Microsoft is announcing the final product name for what was previously known as Windows Live Folders. Windows Live SkyDrive gets not only its final product name but also a few new features and enhanced UI reflecting changes coming across many of the Windows Live services including Windows Live Spaces. So what’s Windows Live SkyDrive? [...]

Microsoft has announced the availability of 3 Windows Live products today, all of which are beta.Windows Live Mail is the free consumer client Microsoft will invest in moving forward. It is a superset of existing free clients and will replace Outlook Express, Windows Mail and Windows Live Mail desktop beta. While it used to be [...]

Channel 10 has revealed the Microsoft Surface Computer, a fully functioning multi-touch computing system – a project which started four years ago and will be launched later this year. "Surface computers will start with Microsoft partners getting first shot at various public applications, you’ll most likely see them in action in Las Vegas first. Eventually [...]

Microsoft has announced the alpha version launch of a new product called Popfly, a tool designed to help non-programmers in creating, sharing, and embedding mashups of content, feeds, web pages and gadgets. The tool is web-based and allows you to drag and drop “blocks” onto a working surface and connect various data sources together. Once [...]

Here is an excellent tutorial called "Your first Windows Live Messenger Add-In" written by MVP Visual C# and .NET enthusiast, Bart De Smet. After explaining some basics, Bart shows you how to code for example a simple "Hello World" app and conversation content filter using Visual Studio 2005.   Your first Windows Live Messenger Add-In [...]

Windows Live OneCare includes antivirus, antispyware, two-way firewall and anti-phishing technology for all your security needs. It regularly defragments and cleans your hard disk drive, and also offers backup and restore functions. Development and test work is complete for the next major release of OneCare and will be available, in store and on the web, [...]

This Add-in indexes the history of the web pages you have browsed using Internet Explorer. By downloading this Add-in, your Internet Explorer History will be indexed by Windows Desktop Search when your PC is idle or when you select ‘Index Now’. Once the index is updated you can immediately search your Internet Explorer History. Download [...]

  The search engine in WDS 3.0 is a Microsoft Windows service that is also used by programs such as Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Office OneNote 2007. You can use this search engine to index a program’s content and to obtain instant results when you search within a particular program. WDS 3.0 supports [...]

Windows Live Writer is a desktop application that makes it easier to compose compelling blog posts using Windows Live Spaces or your current blog service. Blogging has turned the web into a two-way communications medium. Our goal in creating Writer is to help make blogging more powerful, intuitive, and fun for everyone.   Live Writer [...]