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• Live Mesh service update

  Just the latest in a long series of small updates to the Live Mesh technical preview: We are pleased to announce that our next update is now available. The new build contains a number of reliability and performance improvements; we've highlighted... Posted Aug 28 2008, 11:57 PM by pthurrott with | with 22 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Cloud computing

• Coming soon! Even better, even faster Windows Live Hotmail

  Microsoft is finally starting to tout the first of their upcoming "Wave 3" Windows Live products and services : You depend on Windows Live Hotmail to keep up with the people you care about most. Well, we've listened to your feedback and... Posted Aug 27 2008, 11:31 AM by pthurrott with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Cloud computing

• Photosynth comes out of the lab

  Microsoft has taken its Photosynth Live Labs project ( previous site ) public: We’re pleased to announce the first full release of Photosynth, available now at photosynth.com .  Photosynth takes a collection of regular photographs and reconstructs... Posted Aug 21 2008, 01:49 AM by pthurrott with | with 27 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Digital media, Cloud computing, Content

• Live Mesh expanding to Canada, India, and Ireland

  I received this heads-up from Microsoft today: The Live Mesh team is expanding the list of countries that will allow sign-up without a wait list to include Canada, India and Ireland .  As Live Mesh heads towards a more open beta later this year,... Posted Aug 18 2008, 03:02 PM by pthurrott with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Cloud computing

• The potential of Live Mesh is limitless...

  The Live Mesh guys posted some interesting information about the technical limitations of the current pre-release version of the service: Our underlying platform is designed to enable a wide range of scenarios, at broad Internet scale. We closely watch... Posted Aug 14 2008, 09:56 AM by pthurrott with | with 35 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Cloud computing

• Small but important Live Mesh update

  Earlier this month, Microsoft made some changes to Live Mesh , including very low level support for P2P (peer to peer) folder sharing. The problem was (at the time) that you couldn’t configure this explicitly in the UI. So if you wanted to exclude the... Posted Jul 31 2008, 07:09 AM by pthurrott with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: XP, Internet, Windows Live, Mobile, Cloud computing, Vista

• FY09 Strategic Update

  Only Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer could send such an important message out and give it a subject line that boring. But you'll want to read this one. I've highlighted some bits I feel are particularly interesting. From: Steve Ballmer Sent: Wednesday... Posted Jul 25 2008, 10:00 AM by pthurrott with | with 67 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, Mac, Windows 7, XP, Windows Mobile, Windows Live, Cloud computing, Vista, Commentary, Virtualization

• Microsoft Office Outlook Connector 12.1 Beta

  This could be huge. Those waiting for calendaring syncing between Hotmail/Windows Live and Microsoft Outlook can rejoice: It looks like it's finally happening (albeit in beta form): Brief Description With Microsoft Office Outlook Connector, you can... Posted Jul 24 2008, 05:13 PM by pthurrott with | with 17 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft Office, XP, Internet, Windows Live, Cloud computing, Vista

• First look at the Live Mesh client on Mac OS X

  jkOnTheRun offers up a first look at the Live Mesh client for Mac OS X: This app is still in a pre-beta state, so there's bound to be changes, but from what I've seen, most of the functions are there and working. With the client on my Intel-based... Posted Jul 21 2008, 03:02 PM by pthurrott with | with 18 comment(s) Filed under: Mac, Windows Live, Cloud computing

• Live Mesh is Now Open (US)

  Live Mesh forum : Live Mesh is now openly available to anyone in the U.S. The Live Mesh team is pleased to announce that anyone in the U.S. can now use Live Mesh just by signing in to www.mesh.com with a valid Windows Live ID. No sign up needed to participate... Posted Jul 16 2008, 12:06 PM by pthurrott with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Cloud computing

• Live Mesh update adds new features

  So I noticed a Live Mesh update being pushed down the other day and didn't think much of it. After all, there have been a few of these things over the past couple of months and they've never amounted to anything interesting. Not so fast! According... Posted Jul 14 2008, 04:03 PM by pthurrott with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Cloud computing

• Live Mesh update

  Nothing serious, but I got this email yesterday and updated all the PCs: Live Mesh Tech Preview: Version Update June 18, 2008 The Live Mesh team has been working hard to fix bugs reported by our Tech Preview users, and to include popular feature requests... Posted Jun 19 2008, 12:35 PM by pthurrott with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Cloud computing

• MSN Toolbar now compatible with Silverlight 2

  I mentioned a while back that I would like to test the new MSN toolbar but it wasn't compatible with Silverlight 2. Well, it is now: You'll need to snag the recently-released Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2. Thanks Jim! Posted Jun 10 2008, 02:20 PM by pthurrott with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Internet Explorer, Cloud computing

• I love Live Mesh

  I'm going to be awash in Apple stuff this week, thanks to the iPhone 3G and MobileMe announcements. But in writing a WinInfo article about yesterday's WWDC keynote this morning, I'm reminded in how absolutely special and wonderful Microsoft's... Posted Jun 10 2008, 10:12 AM by pthurrott with | with 16 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Cloud computing

• Microsoft updates Windows Live SkyDrive

  I somehow missed this update the other day: We're pleased to unveil new updates to SkyDrive today! Here's a quick rundown of what's included: More places. We're now live in 24 additional locations , bringing our grand total to 62 countries... Posted May 26 2008, 06:18 PM by pthurrott with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Cloud computing