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• Personalized page moved to http://My.Live.com

  Your personalized page has moved from Live.com, which is now Live Search Home page, to http://my.live.com You can still reach your personalized page from live.com, just click Personalized page at bottom right. The team wrote the following on their blog: We have a new URL!  You can now access your Live.com personalized page by signing in with your Windows Live ID at http://my.live.com. Visit http://my.live.com today to view your personalized page and make our new URL your Homepage or add to your Favorites. Updated Directory While you are on your personalized page, check out the new Directory items under the Add Stuff link.  We've reorganized and added new feeds from a wider variety of business, technology, and entertainment sources.  In addition, new collections have been added to the Windows Live > Collections folder for Business, Technology, and US Politics. Posted May 15 2008, 02:24 PM by Sunshine with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: LivedotCom, MyLivecom

• More @live addresses available: India, Philippines, Spain

  Posted on the Live Wire blog earlier today, news of some new additions to the @live.xx family. If you live in these areas, you can sign up for a country specific @live address now, by going to get.live.com/mail/overview India: You can now get @live.in... Posted Nov 30 2007, 06:44 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: LivedotCom

• Register your @live.xx email now!

  Microsoft just enabled the @live.xx signup! Go grab yours now! http://get.live.com/getlive/overview for the local domains (eg @live.co.uk) or use the following link for @live.com - @live.com signup . So far the list of confirmed available aliases is:... Posted Nov 06 2007, 10:19 PM by Chris with | with 76 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, LivedotCom, Featured

• Microsoft launches new Windows Live Home beta

  Yet another bolt out the blue ( maybe not ), Microsoft just launched the new Windows Live Home beta portal. At the moment it offers only basic functionality, ie no integration, just access to all the Windows Live services. Funnily enough, it also links... Posted Aug 09 2007, 11:26 PM by Chris with | with 19 comment(s) Filed under: LivedotCom, Home

• @live address questions answered

  Jacky Mok, another Product Manager for Windows Live in Toronto, has posted some information on the upcoming @live addresses , which he says will be available "in the fall", along with "a rich family of products" around the same time... Posted Jun 23 2007, 10:18 PM by Kip Kniskern with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: Hotmail, LivedotCom

• Mail gadget for Live.com is back

  After having to pull the gadget because of some security issues, the Live.com blog has just announced that it's back. The gadget adds a view of your Windows Live Hotmail account to a Live.com page. You must be using Windows Live Hotmail to use the gadget... Posted May 18 2007, 08:46 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Hotmail, LivedotCom

• The end of start.com

  Well this is kind of sad. Sanaz Ahari announced on the Start.com blog today that in one week (May 22, 2007), start.com will redirect to live.com, ending a most unique and fun project. "This is a bittersweet moment as I reflect on what start.com accomplished... Posted May 16 2007, 02:27 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: LivedotCom

• Mix 07 Set to begin: what to expect

  Mix 07, the Microsoft sponsored web developers conference in Las Vegas begins with registration tonight and the Ray Ozzie/Scott Guthrie keynote set for 9:30 PDT tomorrow (Monday April 30). So what to expect? Well lots of news and in depth coverage of... Posted Apr 29 2007, 05:38 PM by Kip Kniskern with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Spaces, Messenger, Maps, LivedotCom, Mix 07, Ray Ozzie

• (Hot)mail coming to Live.com again soon?

  Live.com has offered, among many others , a gadget to put your Windows Live Mail on a Live.com page. Problem is that the gadget hasn't worked for quite some time, and now we have an explanation, and a reason for hope that it will again. According... Posted Apr 24 2007, 08:08 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Hotmail, Gadgets, LivedotCom, Mail

• Live.com Sharing enabled

  Tonight brings an update to the Live.com home page, allowing for sharing of Live.com collections, which we recently posted about . By clicking on the new "Share" button on Live.com: You can share your Live.com collections, either by email or by posting... Posted Feb 16 2007, 08:24 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Live, Gallery, Collections, LivedotCom

• Live.com Product Tour

  Thanks to Brandon for pointing out the Live.com Product Tour , a marketing effort that includes some simple how to's on setting up Live.com and some truly awful videos. Not big news, to be sure. Expect something with a little more substance coming... Posted Dec 03 2006, 09:48 PM by Kip Kniskern with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: LiveSide, LivedotCom