There has been an outage affecting customers of Windows Live Messenger and Hotmail. It lasted about one hour; people could not sign in using Windows Live ID during this time.

What’s the site where you get Windows Live news first? — Probably your answer is “LiveSide”, and that has its reason. I had an interesting discussion with Kip Kniskern, who is one of the authors at LiveSide.net.
mynetx: Please tell me a bit about yourself. Is your life directly or indirectly involved with [...]

Continuing the series of interviews for Windows Live and You, I talked with the owner of Chinese LiveSide, which is LiveSino.net. He lives in Shanghai, China; many of you will probably know him as “Picturepan2” while his real name is Yan Zhu (??).
mynetx: Sorry to steal your night, I find it good that you have [...]

Dear readers,
Adding support for additional instant messaging networks has always been on a high place on the wish list for Windows Live Messenger. People were excited when they have to know that Microsoft and Yahoo would cooperate to allow using the networks in both company’s clients, back in 2005. People were even more excited when [...]

In an internal message to developers, the Windows Live team has announced the long-awaited integration of several instant messaging networks to work together with Windows Live. Among these networks to be added are ICQ and Skype as well as AIM, Facebook Chat and Google Talk.
“We are currently aiming to achieve full integrative support for widely [...]

The former Windows Live FolderShare has been renamed to Windows Live Sync and released to the public. When I installed the new client, however, I couldn’t find any differences to the old FolderShare, except for the Wave 3 sign-in wizard.
The team reports some enhancements in its new Live Sync blog:

Higher file limits—up to 20 synchronized [...]

Microsoft has announced details on the future, the new, Windows Live, and I am bringing them to you like I promised.
Over the coming weeks, the next generation of Windows Live will become available at www.windowslive.com. The new Windows Live experience is enhanced by Microsoft partners with feeds from third-party sites that help you stay [...]