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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Windows Live Dev site coming soon at dev.live.com

I was told last night at the second windows live session that the Windows Live Dev site would be coming very soon at dev.live.com, but I haven’t said anything about it so I thought I would share with you this blog post by Ken Levy a product planner on Microsoft’s Windows Live Platform team working on on developer API services, portal, and community. The Windows Live Platform is

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Windows Live Search Released Again!

Microsoft has now announced Windows Live Search which is due to go into beta later in 2006, confused yet? I bet you are, basically Microsoft has decided to rename their upcoming enterprise desktop search application as Windows Live Search, the smae name as their web search service, crazy or what? Read below for some more details on this crazy idea!

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Windows Media Player 11 Beta Officialy Released

Windows Media Player 11 Beta has now been officialy released to the public after the recent Windows Media Player 11 Beta Leak last sunday. This official public beta is build number 11.0.5358.4827 compared to the leaked build which was build number 11.0.5358.4826 so make sure you download this version as it’s URGE enabled.

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Microsoft Expression Web Designer CTP 1 Public

Microsoft Expression Web Designer CTP (Community Technology Preview) number 1 has now gone public and is available for download along with a Microsoft Expression Web Designer CTP 1 help file! Web Designer CTPs are incremental builds designed to provide customers an opportunity to try Expression Web Designer throughout the development cycle. Given the nature of the software development and feedback process,

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PIX (Photos and Imaging eXperience) Team at Microsoft

The PIX (Photos and Imaging eXperience) Team at Microsoft have now started a PIX Team blog: Welcome to the inaugural entry in the PIX team’s blog.  We are the Photos and Imaging eXperience Team at Microsoft.  OK, the acronym is a bit of a stretch, but it beat out my personal candidate for a team name, PIG (Photos and Imaging

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Windows Live Mail M6 is now here!

Windows Live Mail M6 is now here, changes include: Firefox support (still a little limited) Policy Changes Performance Signatures Don’t auto select first message Change colors on the fly Subscribe to contact updates Contact display name choice Compose from anywhere More Classic Hotmail improvements Related sites: MS Discussion | LiveSide.net | Live Mail TeamBlog

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Windows Live Session UK 2 Tomorrow!

Tomorrow I will be attending the Second Windows Live Session to be held in London this year, I enjoyed the first one and I’m sure I will enjoy this one just as much! I live in the south east of the UK in Kent so London isn’t far for me to travel so I will probably arrive in London at