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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 have some new features coming that'll make it...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-27-2008
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 the scene or object in a 3-D environment. ...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-20-2008
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, the team continues to increase the number of participants...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-18-2008
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 the feedback from our Technology Preview users along...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-14-2008
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 Live Desktop from a folder share (and not exceed...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-31-2008
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, July 23, 2008 4:30 PM To: Microsoft–All Employees...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-25-2008
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 use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Office...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-24-2008
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 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5.4, I was able to...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-21-2008
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! International Customers With Live Mesh open...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-16-2008
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 to the Live Mesh blog , this latest update actually...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-14-2008

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