Things at LiveSide have been a little quiet lately, as we enjoy the holiday season, and frankly enjoy a little break as Windows Live news has slowed until the new year. News, and our snooping around it, will pick up soon, but for now we're enjoying...

Posted Dec 28 2007, 05:34 AM by LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews

Filed under: Messenger

Yahoo launches Messenger for Vista [Updated]

Last night Yahoo launched a new beta, its WPF powered IM client - Yahoo Messenger for Vista . A demo was shown at CES in January 2007, however performance was noted to be poor and as a result there has been a 12 month delay in getting the first beta out...

Posted Dec 06 2007, 02:47 PM by LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews

Filed under: Windows Live, Beta, Messenger, Yahoo

Messenger 9 Beta appears to be up and running

Well it didn't take long for information to start appearing about the Messenger 9 Beta - a poster over on the WinBeta Forums has posted a welcome email and some screenshots. According to the post, the email says, in part: Congratulations and welcome...

Posted Nov 28 2007, 06:09 AM by LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews

Filed under: Beta, Windows Live Messenger, Messenger

An easy way to add friends - Invite2Messenger

Today, Microsoft Netherlands released Invite2Messenger which allows new Windows Live Messenger users to send out invitations to their contacts from Hotmail, Outlook, Outlook Express, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail. Existing Messenger users can also use the website...

Posted Nov 27 2007, 09:13 PM by LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews

Filed under: Windows Live, Messenger