Windows Live gets its social makeover

Live Search Team Apologizes For Black Friday Cashback Blackout, Promises Full Refund To Those Affected!
liveside.net 12/2/2008 — HP and Microsoft’s Black Friday promise of 40 percent refunds on everything in HP's online store got plagued with outage . When Microsoft Live Search Cashback came back up the refund offered was lowered to 3% at that! What happened? A significant ...

The new face of Windows Live on the web
windowslivewire.spaces.live.com 12/2/2008 — As Brian announced a few weeks ago, Windows Live is in the midst of releasing a new wave of updates for the web, for your PC, and for mobile devices. Today we’ve started releasing the first set of updates to our web services, and these will continue ...

Firefox sails past 20% market share, IE drops below 70%
tgdaily.com 12/2/2008 — Analysis – Mozilla achieved an important milestone in November, sailing past 20% market share over an entire month for the first time since its release in November 2004. While Safari and Chrome were able to take over share from Microsoft's Internet ...

Spaces - Windows Live
spaces.live.com 12/2/2008 — Make your own space on Windows Live It's your place on the web to express yourself. Spaces New to Windows Live? Sign up Already have a Windows Live ID? Sign in If you have a Hotmail, Messenger, or Xbox LIVE account, you already have a Windows Live ...

Windows Live Rolls Out Its New Social Network Hub, Boosts SkyDrive/Photo Storage to 25 GB
techcrunch.com 12/3/2008 — Today, Microsoft is rolling out some of the sweeping changes to Windows Live it announced two weeks ago. Windows Live seems to be gradually replacing MSN as Microsoft’s central hub for everything you do on the Web. The new home page shows ...

Microsoft advances its Win Live Wave 3, Gen4 datacenter rollouts — All about Microsoft

Windows Live: It’s Live! I Think! Partially! Stay Tuned for More! — Technologizer

New Windows Live starts to go live — The Microsoft Blog

Windows market share melting; global warming suspected — GMSV

Deal of the day: 25 gigs of free cloud storage, and more, from Microsoft — The Seattle Times: Brier Dudley's blog

Yahoo Fact and Fiction: Icahn Ups Stake, But No Microsoft Search Deal (Yet) — Yahoo! Finance: Tech Ticker 12/1/2008
Not a day goes by, it seems, that Yahoo isn't in the news or the subject of some rumor. Over the long holiday weekend, Tech Ticker's parent provided fodder for conversation at some dinner tables, regarding the following:Late last week, regulatory filings

Microsoft adds more Web 2.0 features to Windows Live — Latest from Computerworld 12/2/2008
Microsoft has released a new wave of Windows Live services that adds more social-networking qualities to its set of online services.

Windows Live Web 2.0 facelift is go — The Register 12/3/2008
Microsoft's flabby skin still on display though Microsoft climbed on board the wobbly social networking bandwagon yesterday when it began rolling out changes to it Windows Live services worldwide.…

Microsoft opens arms to Firefox with OXML plug-in release — The Register 12/3/2008
Rival browser enjoys interoperability love-in Microsoft has today released a plug-in for Firefox that allows Open XML documents to be viewed within the popular open source browser.…

Microsoft gets a better answer to Flickr — CNET News.com 12/4/2008
Lifted limits, slide shows, and a social connection come to Windows Live Photos. But there still are rough patches.