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Interview with Sanaz Ahari from the Live.com team

Chirs overd over at LiveSide.net has now posted his first of several interviews that were recorded on Friday, this Interview is with Sanaz Ahari from the Live.com team and should hopefully give you some insight into where live.com is heading. 0.00 Introduction 0.30 Most recent update summary 2.45 What the Live.com team’s priorities are 4.47 Sanaz’s favorite feature 5.55 How Live.com will complete Windows Live

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The plan for the first Britblog Blogmeet

Following up on Mark Sweeting’s recent post about a Britblog blogmeet where he asked us what date and location would be good, we now have an official date and location, that being Sunday the 21st of May probably at The Marquess of Anglesey near Covent Garden. Well we’ve settled on Sunday, 21st of May for the blogmeet. I’ll try and

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Windows Live Session UK/2 Coming soon!

Following my recent attendance to the first ever Windows Live Session here in the UK and my more recent attendance at the Windows Live Dinner meet up in London organised by heaven I have now been invited by MSN UK to the second Windows Live Session held in London on the 16th of May 2006. For this second Windows Live

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Microsoft Expression Web Designer Video Demo

I’ve been using Microsoft’s Expression Web Designer (EWD) CTP1 (Community Technology Preview 1) for a little while now and though I would love to show you some images of it unfortunately I cant as I’ve agreed to a Microsoft Non-disclosure Agreement (NDA) meaning I cant disclose anything that’s not already public until the public beta. But that’s fine because what

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More information on Windows Live QnA at new team blog!

The Windows Live QnA Team has now posted some more information on Windows Live QnA at their new team blog which, it’s great to finally see some news from the actual team instead of leaving us more or less in the dark! 😉 A little background… Once upon a time, there was an intern at Microsoft who had an idea

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Windows Live Mail Beta Milestone 6 (M6) is coming soon

Windows Live Mail Beta Milestone 6 (M6) will soon be coming to all beta testers, with this new release we can hope to see a lot of improvements some of which are listed below, notice the first one is better firefox support, this should keep a lot of you happy! Firefox support We’ve been saying for awhile that we would

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Microsoft Buys Google Web Analytics Competitor

There’s no official confirmation or press release yet but apparently Microsoft has acquired Web analytics vendor DeepMetrix. DeepMetrix’s technology is a head-to-head competitor with Google Analytics, the Urchin technology that Google acquired in March 2005. I wonder when Microsoft will tell us there plans! Via: Microsoft Watch | Eweek.com

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Microsoft gets ready to launch Windows Live QnA Beta

Microsoft is now getting ready to launch a new beta service called Windows Live QnA which will be very simialr to Google’s or Yahoo’s Answers service where you can ask questions to others in the hope that an expert in that feild of study will answer your question, but get this, according to Gary Price he beileves it’s going to

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Windows Live Product Search Beta Launches

Looks like the Windows Live Product Search Beta has launched, the Windows Live Product Search allows users to search through products offered by 10,000 resellers but unfortunately it’s only available for the United States market at the moment as it’s still in beta so if you are not from the United States and you would still like to test it

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Is it already time to remove the lush theme from my blog?

I can’t believe I’m asking my self the question “Is it already time to remove the lush theme from my blog?” after only installing it exactly a week ago, but the truth is that soon I may just have to remove it. But why? Well because for a number of reasons, sure the features it has are great and I