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Microsoft's venerable basket of Windows Live services will live on, but the name is being retired. With the launch of Windows 8, something new is needed to unify and simplify Microsoft's offerings as it has to work across phones, tablets and desktops without sounding out-of-place.
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Microsoft (news, site) has made gaining access to your Windows Live information easier across all smartphones and mobiles in a developer-friendly move. Going Live, Mobile Windows Live started out as a focal point for Microsoft Web services, as we move into the mobile age, users will want
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Today Microsoft (news, site ) gave Live Spaces, its homegrown blogging platform, a huge booster seat by announcing a partnership with WordPress. Automatic Software's massively popular solution will now be default for Windows Live. The partnership weaves together Live Spaces and WordPress.
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Microsoft has deployed an updated version of their open source code repository CodePlex. The latest updates include support for Windows Live ID and page ads. Signing in with Live ID According to the CodePlex blog, support for Windows Live ID was the second most requested feature. CodePlex login with LiveID
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Microsoft, the Redmond, Washington software giant, will soon be combining two of its online services: Windows Live and Office Live. Microsoft intends to simplify the customer experience and give customers one destination to interact with these cloud-based web service offerings. Kirk Gregerson, Director of Office Life Management and Marking, announced in a blog post that
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Social Media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here's the week's top stories, in scan-friendly format.
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Here's a way to get your own little piece of the cloud for free. Microsoft is now offering 5GB of free online storage through Windows Live Skydrive. Are we sensing a little bit of the Christmas giving spirit? We first saw the SkyDrive offer when we were reviewing the new face of Windows Live. Included
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Windows Live has decided to get a little more social -- in more ways than one. They have introduced a number of new updates to the Live platform and welcomed into the fold some third party applications that make the experience that much richer.
According to Microsoft, Windows Live is
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OpenID has gotten a big lift this week with two big announcements coming from two very different camps. First, Microsoft has announced that Windows Live will officially support OpenID for login and that users will be able to log into any OpenID site with their LiveID account.
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Kentico Software, a Web CMS vendor, announced at Microsoft Professional Developer Conference 2008 (PDC2008) that they have integrated Silverlight 2.0 and Windows Live ID support into Kentico CMS.
Kentico CMS, a Web CMS developed for ASP.NET, now enables Web site developers to easily integrate Microsoft Silverlight 2.0
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