On July 30, Microsoft started rolling out a new home page for Reside Lookup and it is generating out there one more update towards the check edition of its Live Mesh collaboration/synchronization support.The new Reside Search homepage includes background rotating images with “interactive hotspots” embedded in those images that direct users to vertical search results related to that image.Microsoft is rolling out the new house page over the next 24 hours in the U.S.,
Cheap Windows 7, with other markets to follow “in the future.From a posting about the new home page on the Reside Lookup team blog:“Our goal for the residence page is to find the best way to enhance users; sense of discovery, surprise, and delight while balancing engineering realities for a great user experience.“Extensive user research and exploration of many concepts with our customers pointed us in the direction for this design. We want the web page to be a great place to start a search and also to intrigue and inform as well. We think hotspots will help users discover parts of Reside Search they might not know while not distracting from the core purpose of the page — searching.“We think the new design is a great start, but there;s more to come,
Microsoft Office 2010 Home And Stude/nt, with lots of interesting directions that we;ll be exploring in our next releases of the house web page.”(As LiveSide.Net noted recently, Microsoft also is working on a redesign of the MSN property web page.)Also around the Live front, Microsoft is delivering some minor fixes towards the Reside Mesh tech preview build that it first introduced in April, said the company via an e-mail message that went to Live Mesh testers today.Among the new Reside Mesh updates (delivered via Reside Mesh software build 0.9.3103.9 and Live Desktop build 0.9.3103.9) are: Improved peer-to-peer synchronization performanceA higher limit around the total number of customers now allowed to be part of the Tech Preview. No much more waiting list in the U.S.,
Microsoft Office Home And Business 2010, UK, Australia and New ZealandNo limit about the number of Live Mesh invitations readily available to Tech Preview participants in those same countries Microsoft is close to releasing the Mac client version of the Reside Mesh Tech Preview. On July 29,
Office Enterprise 2007, the company accidentally made live the Web page notifying testers of the Mac client;s availability, but subsequently pulled the web page down.When I asked yesterday about the availability of the Live Mesh Mac client, I received this answer from a Microsoft spokeswoman:“The download page that you reference below was inadvertently posted today, however as noted around the web page, Mac support is a critical piece of the Live Mesh support and the team continues to make progress in delivering that functionality. There is minimal support now,
Microsoft Office 2007 Standard, but we are not sharing further details on Mac support at this time.”There;s still no word on when/if Microsoft is going to rebrand Reside Search. In my view, until it does, the company can make all the changes in the world to the residence page but it won;t matter, as many (I;d say most) potential users still have no idea that Microsoft;s dedicated lookup site is www.live.com.