Windows Live QnA

Windows Live QnA Beta is the place where you can ask your questions and get answered by experts, you can also help others by answering others questions. This is a lot similar to Yahoo! Answers.

Try the Windows Live QnA Beta.

Get the latest info on Live QnA.

11 March 2008 in Beta Testing & Live & Web Services | Comments (0)

Windows Live FolderShare

Windows Live FolderShare is the revamped newer version of FolderShare. Windows Live FolderShare helps you to sync the folders between multiple computers.

All you need to do is to download and install the Windows Live FolderShare Client in your PCs and access your files from any computer on the Internet. . FolderShare can sync files up to 2 GBs in size and works on both Windows and Mac.

Windows Live FolderShare is in Beta so you can report the bugs you come across here.

Keep updated on the lastest on Windows Live FolderShare from the Team Blog.

Alternative Windows Live FolderShare Client download link.

11 March 2008 in Beta Testing & Live & Web Services | Comments (0)

Microsoft Live Volta

 Microsoft Live Labs hs announced the Volta technology preview, a developer toolset for building multi-tier web applications using existing and familiar tools, techniques and patterns. Volta’s declarative tier-splitting enables developers to postpone architectural decisions about distribution until the last possible responsible moment. Volta enables new end-to-end profiling and testing for higher levels of application performance, robustness, and reliability. Using the declarative tier-splitting, developers can refine architectural decisions based on this profiling data. This saves time and costs associated with manual refactoring. In effect, Volta extends the .NET platform to further enable the development of software+services applications, using existing and familiar tools and techniques.

You architect and build your application as a .NET client application, assigning the portions of the application that run on the server tier and client tier late in the development process. You can target either web browsers or the CLR as clients and Volta handles the complexities of tier-splitting. The compiler creates cross-browser JavaScript for the client tier, web services for the server tier, and all communication, serialization, synchronization, security, and other boilerplate code to tie the tiers together. In effect, Volta offers a best-effort experience in multiple environments without requiring tailoring of the application.

Learn more about Microsoft Live Volta.
Download Microsoft Live Volta

27 February 2008 in Beta Testing & Developer Tools & Live | Comments (1)

Pre-register for Microsoft Office Live Workspace

Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta is your online place to save, access, and share documents and files. Use it to group related information for work, school, or personal projects.

Microsoft Office Live Workspace is free and there might be additional features that are charged.  View the FAQs.

Learn more about Microsoft Office Live Workspace.

Pre-register for Microsoft Office Live Workspace.

21 February 2008 in Live & Office & Web Services | Comments (0)

Microsoft Live Listas

Listas is a tool for the creation, management and sharing of lists, notes, favorites, and more. It allows you to quickly and easily edit lists, share them with others for reading or wiki-style editing, and discover the public lists of other users. We encourage you to try using it for meeting notes, bookmarks, shopping lists, to plan a night out, or whatever other creative ways you can think of.

You can even create lists from all the things you find on the web, like search results, wish lists, videos, or all or part of virtually any page with the Listas Toolbar for Internet Explorer.

 Try Listas.

2 January 2008 in Live & Web Services | Comments (0)

Windows Live SkyDrive gets Bigger

SkyDrive is the online file storage service from Micrsooft. It is a features of the Microsoft Live Service.

The storage space is now doubled from 512 MB to 1GB.

The new features include RSS feeds of particular folder to track the files uploaded in it, you can invite your friends to view the files.

The SkyDrive provides you features to make your uploaded files public or personal or by invitation.

Headout to http://skydrive.live.com/ to get your own SkyDrive account.

13 October 2007 in Live & Web Services & Websites | Comments (0)

Microsoft Live Deepfish

Deepfish is a new type of mobile browser, which provides a full ‘as designed’ view of web pages on mobile devices. The unique user interface loads an overview image of the entire page layout and allows a user to zoom in and out on the parts of the page they are interested in. Deepfish loads the overview image first and then the more detailed sections are loaded as requested or in the background as the overview is browsed, resulting in a much faster page load experience as well. All together, it provides a more intuitive, desktop-like experience than traditional mobile browsers.

Learn about Deepfish.

8 March 2007 in Live | Comments (0)

Microsoft Live Seadragon

 Seadragon is an incubation project resulting from the acquisition of Seadragon Software in February. Its aim is nothing less than to change the way we use screens, from wall-sized displays to mobile devices, so that visual information can be smoothly browsed regardless of the amount of data involved or the bandwidth of the network. The Seadragon team is currently tuning its DirectX implementation, making the most of the new Windows Media Photo format, and cranking on the Photosynth Technology Preview.

Learn about Seadragon.

27 February 2007 in Live | Comments (0)