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226 days ago
I'm both excited and a bit nostalgic to be writing this blog entry letting our users know that The Space Craft (the official Spaces Team blog), is merging with the Windows Live team blog. In some ways, this is a formalization of changes that started years ago as the team that built MSN Spaces expanded and partnered with other teams to help build Windows Live web services including Home, Profile, Photos, Events, Groups, and of course Spaces. ;) For Spaces fans, here’s a quick history of our service: MSN Spaces launched in fall/winter 2004-2005 with support for blogs, photos, and lists. It was also integrated with MSN Messenger so that when a friend posted new content, a green star ("gleam") would show next to that person's name. In January 2006, support was added for searching Spaces, people, and blogs with the help of the (then MSN) Search team. (I joined the Spaces team in March of 2006.) In summer ...
296 days ago
Hey everyone, In case you didn’t see the post on the Windows Live team blog, we made a change to the Spaces header last night as a direct result of the feedback that we received from you in the blog comments and the Feedback page. For more information, check out the Windows Live team blog. Thanks. Please keep the feedback coming! -Chris
359 days ago
There have been a number of questions about the new version of Windows Live web services over the past two days. We really appreciate the feedback and will be taking it into account as we plan and build future versions. We’ve taken some of the most frequently asked questions and answered them here. Top 5 questions: Why did I have problems accessing Windows Live pages yesterday, including Spaces, Profile, and Photos? Yesterday some users intermittently got errors when they tried to access Windows Live web pages. We tracked the problem down to a load issue with some of our DNS servers, and the problem was resolved at around 1:00 PM PST. We’re sorry that some of you had problems accessing our sites, and we want to reassure you that we take the availability of our service very seriously. We’re constantly working to improve the quality and availability of our service – we want you to be able to rely on our service. What is the story with privacy? The privacy and ...
361 days ago
The updates to Spaces, SkyDrive, and Events, as well as the brand new Profile, Groups, and Photos experiences have just been released. We can’t wait for you to try them out! We’ll be talking in more depth about all of the cool new stuff in the coming weeks, and we’ll be answering a list of frequently asked questions later this week. But if you want more info about the release, you can check out these blog posts: The pre-release announcement on the Windows Live team blog and our announcement here on The Space Craft The web release post on the Windows Live team blog, which provides details about the new header, the Home page, the new Photos experience, the new Profile, Groups, Events, and SkyDrive Our in-depth post about the updates to Spaces Details about “what’s new” and “web activities,” which help you keep in touch and up-to-date with what your friends are up to The full scoop on the new ...
367 days ago
