In an effort to try and find some more information on Windows Live Events and Calendar, I looked through the Spaces help file, to see if that’s been updated with the information soon to hit the press… when I found this.

I personally think it’s a typo, and that Windows Update will not become Windows Live Update. I ran this by one of the guys at LiveSide to see what they thought - they thought pretty much the same as me. Could be something, most likely not. For a start, Windows Update is a computer based service, although runs as an online service. Now that Windows Vista has been released, the website version of Windows Update has now been ported to a Control Panel application, so it’s very doubtful that this is anything in-particular.

But just thought I’d bring it to light anyway

Brandon: Good point! In fact, if I was reading this, I couldn’t have put it better. Thanks for noting this, we’ll adjust accordingly and definately in future. We here at liveandbeyond.com listen and take heed to the blogosphere  

See this? This is the new Windows Live Home (http://home.live.com). For a while now it’s had the basic services, but now it seems to be adding icons for the Windows Live Calendar and Windows Live Events services, which are due to be launched almost imminently. 

With a bit of trickery, you can now access some parts of the new Windows Live services (Events and Calendar) from the main http://home.live.com address. Here’s how:

Make sure you are logged out from Windows Live ID. On the middle-right, you’ll see links to the different services. There’s a jump in the URL format, so obviously replace some numbers in the URL:

It’ll then ask you to sign in, and take you to an Access Denied page on Spaces, thus confirming that Windows Live Events is a Windows Live Spaces application.

Here’s the message you’ll most likely receive:

LiveSide will probably report on this soon - we’ll try and let you know what’s happening as soon as we get it.

I have seen so many crap YouTube video’s reaching the front-page which advertise stupid websites in the video. It doesn’t look like Google is going to fix the problem so lets exploit it and then maybe they will fix it.

First,

Download ClickWhen from Lifehacker

Then, upload your video to YouTube and go to the video page.

For e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbmIYBmYF3o

Now install and run the ClickWhen software.

Although I’d love to take credit for writing about SkyDrive… I’ll let Chris take it. Go check out Windows Live SkyDrive over at LiveSide.

Check out Windows Live SkyDrive
Read SkyDrive blog
LiveSide’s post

Note: Yes we’ve been away - we’ve either been very (extremely) busy and/or been on holiday. Sorry about the gaps, but it’s hard juggling a full working life and maintaining this and every other bloody blog in the Universe.

OK so this week has seen the release to a small group of testers (including myself, HA!) of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 beta. It’s around 550MB in size and seems to be only available for the x86 processor (at the moment…). Indeed, the build string as pointed out on a number of websites is 6001.16549(longhorn_sp1beta1.070628-1825). There are two kinds of testers - random ones selected from the Windows Vista beta of which have filed an extraordinary amount of bugs during the beta, and a number of participants from the Visual Studio 2008 beta so that certain things can be tested, of which Vista SP1 being a prerequisite.

Also around the same time, Windows XP Service Pack 3 being around 330MB in size, of which we don’t have access to I’m saddened to say, fixes around 900 bugs and problems with the existing Service Pack 2. The build string is 5.1.2600.3180 (xpsp.070718-2058) - according to Bink, people seem to think that the timing of these two beta’s being released, is that the final versions of the products will be released simultaneously.

From working at Microsoft myself - I can tell you, this is unlikely, as target dates are very rarely met.

Some sources: Bink.nu