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Favorites syncing on Windows Live Toolbar temporarily turned off
11/5/2009 4:47:32 PM, Windows Live Dev Team
For anyone who uses the “favorites sync” feature on Windows Live Toolbar, we have an important notice. We’ve heard from some customers in the last 24 hours that in some cases, favorites have been removed from the Toolbar when they synced from one or more ...
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Bing and Windows Live
5/28/2009 2:38:36 PM, Jamie
I’m sure many of you reading this will be aware that Microsoft today announced a new search engine called Bing (not live at the time of writing). I’ve been checking out the videos at http://www.discoverbing.com/behindbing/videos.aspx and was excited to ...
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Rearranging your Photos - New: Drag photos where you want them
4/15/2009 9:11:46 AM, Dev
The Windows Live team has finally added the much needed photo rearrange feature. Although way overdue it is better to be late than never! :)Their post below:--------------------------------Many of you let us know how disappointed you were at being unable ...
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New: drag photos where you want them
4/14/2009 5:10:34 PM, Windows Live Dev Team
Many of you let us know how disappointed you were at being unable to arrange photos in your Windows Live online photo albums. We appreciate your feedback – it helps us keep improving Windows Live. Today we’ve released a couple of quick and easy ways to ...
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Psst! Your favorites are really, really bored
3/25/2009 1:28:52 PM, Windows Live Dev Team
UPDATE April 22, 2009: Good news! These favorites features are now available everywhere SkyDrive is.* If you made me—but please don't make me—pick the one aspect of Windows Live I get the most excited about with the least amount of prompting, it's what ...
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Give your cause a shout out!
3/17/2009 1:30:40 PM, Windows Live Dev Team
Hi, I’m Kaarin, and I’m a writer on the Windows Live team. I love my day job, but I don’t exactly save lives every day at work, so I try to do my part in other ways to make the world a better place. Here are a few quick and easy ways I use Windows Live to ...
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Grouping Contacts in Windows Live
2/6/2009 9:38:50 AM, Marcus at Microsoft
Many of us find we have lots of people in our Windows Live contact list, but we really spend our time “talking” to just a handful. Sometimes it gets a little daunting to sort through all those contacts. Fortunately, there are a couple ways to help ...
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Display your Windows Live Shared Favorites on FriendFeed
2/2/2009 10:59:57 AM, Jamie
Ever heard of FriendFeed? Its a service that allows you to aggregate lots of your activity from around the web and in that regard its not dissimilar to what Windows Live’s What’s New feed has become with the advent of web activities. Unfortunately ...
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The stuff you care about, managed—SHAZAM!
12/19/2008 9:13:35 PM, Windows Live Dev Team
I’m Ian Tien, part of the Windows Live product management team here in sunny Redmond, Washington, USA. I’m here to talk about our lives online—ever feel like yours is too complicated? Too many online accounts, too many applications installed, too many ...
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10 more secrets of Windows Live
8/7/2008 9:15:30 PM, Jamie
My last post 10 hidden secrets of Windows Live was quite well received so I thought I would write another one. Here are 10 more time-and-money-saving tips from Windows Live. If you're like me then you've spent a lot of time over the last few years ...