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CommentMonday, August 7, 2006

Microsoft Fixing Windows Live Spaces Issues

After relaunching MSN Spaces as a Windows Live-branded service with updated features, a combination of issues caused plenty of problems for users.

Last week's debut of Windows Live Spaces, the blogging service operated by Microsoft, developers were dismayed to find a number of nasty problems crop up on the site.

The development team acknowledged the issues on The Space Craft blog in a next-day entry. "There was a period of over 12 hours where Spaces at best were extremely slow to render, if they rendered properly at all," they noted.

A series of specific issues have elicited the focus of the developers, who noted that the gotchas did not show up until the new Windows Live Spaces moved into production:

Stats page not working
Legacy emoticons not rendering correctly
Some issues with Email publishing
Some issues with Friends Explorer and Firefox

We are also monitoring page-loading performance. We do cache of a lot of client side script so first load will take longer than subsequent loads.
Spaces blogs can have a number of modules, including Gadgets from its gallery. Microsoft is pushing the social networking aspects of Live Spaces pretty hard; the available Friends module can show the user's Live Contacts and display when friends have updated their Spaces.

Microsoft has placed a lot of faith in ventures like the Windows Live initiative. A comment from Steve Berkowitz, former Ask.com CEO turned senior vice president of the Online Services Group at Microsoft, illustrated why in a statement released by the company:

"Windows Live and Internet-based ad-funded software and service are critical to driving growth for the company, and we are energized about the continued investments we're making to help provide consumers with a seamless and safer online experience."

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David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business.

windows live mail

When i open my hotmail homepage to view my email, quite a few times i have to refresh the page for all of the banners to load up in order to have control to open and delete mail, otherwise the banner loads and like freezes continueously. Thats when i refresh and instantly everything ok. This started about 2 weeks ago. What causes this?

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