Microsoft has rolled out a new offering which bundles its Windows Live web services together. Chris Jones,Vice President of Windows Live Team, has announced the release of new Windows Live Suite on Windows Live Wire Blog.Windows Live Suite is a set of Windows Live online services bundled into a single download, its latest effort to compete with Google Inc's growing array of applications delivered over the Web. Included in the suite, which will allow for a single installation of any or all of these Windows Live services, are: Windows Live Mail (the desktop client) Windows Live Messenger Windows Live Photo Gallery Windows Live Writer Windows Live Toolbar Windows Live OneCare Family Safety The suite of ...

In the press release of 26th June, Microsoft promised to release a single installer which will give customers the option of an all-in-one download for the full Windows Live suite of services, and added Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta and Windows Live Folders Beta ( later on renamed to skydrive) to the managed beta testing of Windows Live Suite. According to reports of NYTimes, Microsoft will release the Windows Live Software suite sometime this week NYTimes Reports,This week, it plans to turn that strategy upside down, making available free software that connects its Windows operating system to software services delivered on the Internet, a practice increasingly referred to as “cloud” computing. The initiative is part of an effort to connect Windows more seamlessly to a growing ...

  Microsoft has launched an experimental demonstration site Tafiti that combines Live Search with Microsoft Silverlight. The demonstration is to show the strength of Windows Live Suite (especially Live Search) and Microsoft Silverlight (latest release to counter Adobe Flash) Tafiti uses MS Silverlight 1.0 RC and AJAX to provide rich, cross-platform user experiences and leverages the following Microsoft services on the backend: Live Search for Web, Books, Blogs, News, and Images Live ID Live Spaces What Microsoft means by Tafiti? Tafiti, which means "do research" in Swahili, is an experimental search front-end from Microsoft, designed to help people use the Web for research projects that span multiple search queries and sessions by helping visualize, store, and share ...

Microsoft has launched the new Windows Live Home beta portal. At the moment it offers only basic functionality, ie minimal integration and access to the Windows Live services. It is featuring modules that allow you to monitor and access the Windows Live services that matter to you. A few examples of this cross-service integration are: Providing access to your emails and contacts through Windows Live Hotmail Showing the upcoming calendar items from your Windows Live Calendar Allowing blog and photo publishing direct to your Windows Live Space Showing the status of Windows Live OneCare installed on your home pc Screenshot of Windows Live Home Beta Portal Interestingly, the background of the webpage changes according to the weather and time.  ...

The code name shuffle of Microsoft. Microsoft's long-rumored online storage offering which has been in beta for a little while, has once again changed it name. Originally code-named Live Drive, it became Live Folders and today got its final name, Windows Live SkyDrive. Microsoft's Live strategy has always been confusing.  Live Vs not-Live in Microsoft's array of online services is still not clear to me. Recently they changed the name of their next Windows operating system as well, originally code-named Windows Blackcomb, which became Vienna and now Windows 7. There is also a significant update to the service, extending the basic functionality that was criticised somewhat at the start of the initial beta. New features include: Drag and drop ...

Google's magic may be working in US,Canada and Europe but doesn't work quite well in Rest of the World. Earlier this month, internet research firm comScore released a new study that put Google a few steps behind the competition in Asia-Pacific, and now it says that Google are also trailing in Latin America. Internet Research Firm comScore has today released the first report on Latin American Internet usage, based on data collected through the comScore World Metrix audience ratings service. Google tops Yahoo! but trails to Microsoft. The study says, Microsoft sites received over 47 million unique visitors, while Google traffic was close to 46.5 million. Yahoo, who was leading in Asia Pacific region is well behind with just  35 million unique visitors.  ...

All the media attention of Windows Vista release is nearly over, now it's time to turn our attention on next Windows release, which is currently renamed to "Windows 7". The next version of windows was originally codenamed as Blackcomb and then renamed to Windows Vienna, before being renamed to "Windows 7". The geeks are still in dilemma whether it is "Windows Seven" or Windows "7". At Microsoft’s Global Exchange (MGX) annual sales conference in Orlando this week, Microsoft shared a bit information on Windows "7". Among the information shared was that Microsoft is anticipating that it will take at least three years from now on to release the next version of Windows, which means it will be shipped in 2010. The specific release date will be determined later on ...

Microsoft Corporation has chosen Bangalore, the silicon valley of India, for its first-ever exclusive and independent educational venture in the world. The university may train around 1000 students and may well be India's first ever university run by a multinational company. Although Microsoft has a special focus on higher education initiatives in other countries, but India will be the first country where it would have a wholly-owned university.According to the sources of Timesofindia, A couple of months ago, a team from Microsoft approached the Karnataka government with a proposal and  conducted another project presentation at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, US. Microsoft will now come back with a formal request and proposal with details on the project outlay, land required to set up the university, via-media (a ...

  Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim Helu has overtaken Microsoft founder Bill Gates as the world's richest man, a Mexican financial journalist who has been tracking the mogul's wealth said today. Recent gains in his shares of the America Movil group are largely responsible for his recent increase of wealth, boosting his fortune to an estimated $67.8 billion compared with $59.2 billion for the Microsoft mogul Forbes magazine's list of The World's Billionaires has always ranked Bill Gates as the richest person in the world since 1995. First time, In the 12 years there will be a change in the top position. Forbes magazine reported on its Web site in April that Carlos Slim Helu had moved past U.S. investor Warren ...

Ever since Microsoft started Windows Live Suite last year, they have been keeping a steady pace of new services integrations in the Windows Live Suite. Lot of online products and services have rolled out and become popular with millions of people worldwide, which includes Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Spaces, Windows Live OneCare and others. The new arrivals in the managed beta testing of Windows Live Suite is Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta and Windows Live Folders Beta. Windows Live Photo Gallery Windows Live Photo Gallery beta is an improvement on the initial version of Photo Gallery they shipped with Windows Vista and now available for Windows XP SP2 as well. Here are the list of some new features that you will see in ...