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As it is in Beta, Windows Live Academic currently index content only related to computer science, physics, electrical engineering, and related subject areas. It has more than 6 million records from approximately 4300 journals and 2000 conferences for the three subjects.

Welcome to Windows Live Academic
Academic search enables you to search for peer reviewed journal articles contained in journal publisher portals and on the web in locations like citeseer.

Academic search works with libraries and institutions to search and provide access to subscription content for their members. Access restricted resources include subscription services or premium peer-reviewed journals. You may be able to access restricted content through your library or institution.

We have built several features designed to help you rapidly find the content you are searching for including abstract previews via our preview pane, sort and group by capability, and citation export. We invite you to try us out - and share your feedback with us.

Windows Live Local : A simple superb creation from Microsoft. It is based on the Microsoft Map ,but a bit more interesting. The service will initially target San Francisco and Seattle only due to the massive number of images needed to support make it work .
It offers fabulous views , a Race car , Sports car and simple walking view. The zoom can be controled by scroller of the mouse . While at some level it offers few superb snaps of the city on the above portion of the map.

When in the Car mode, browse through the page while dragging the car or use arrow keys, when the head light is switched on the image infront of the car, will be shown in the above portion. Its like playing a game. :)

Simply Marvelous !

Looks like with increasing number of low cost WYSIWYG editors, FrontPage is not much of use. Microsoft acquired FrontPage in the mid-1990s.

FrontPage does serve as the foundation for two different Web-design programs: SharePoint Designer 2007, which is intended for organizations using the SharePoint server-based Web-development platform; and Expression Web Designer, which appears to be outside of the Office application family (it isn’t included in any of the Office 2007 bundles, nor is it listed as a standalone Office app the way Project and Visio have been and will continue to be in the new release).

[Via PCworld]

This just in, One more “Live” is out for Beta from Microsoft, Microsoft Office Live

A collection of free services (advertising-supported) will provide a small business with the core requirements for establishing an online identity. Services include a company domain name; five e-mail accounts using that company domain name, each with 2 GB of storage; a Web site with 30 MB of file storage space; an easy-to-use, drag-and-drop design tool for creating a compelling, professional-quality Web site; and the Microsoft Office Live Site Reports tool for monitoring and analyzing Web site traffic.

Maybe MSN is trying to target corporates more, as the “search” I think is not doing that well. ^_^

Microsoft’s new beta web 2.0 service Fremont, on Live.com will be launching in the next few weeks. The final name is TDB, but the current project name is “Fremont” fremont.live.com .This product represents a unique offering by Microsoft to address the person-to-person marketplace. As per this post Fremont enhances your ability to :
- Connect with those you trust – your messenger buddies and your coworkers,
- Locate items in your neighborhood or across the country through integration with MapPoint and Windows Liveâ„¢ Local (formerly Virtual Earth),
- List easily, instantly, and for free.

Recently launched service by Microsoft, domains.Live.Com is very useful tool Microsoft will host email and instant messaging for you in a domain you own. (more…)

Microsoft is getting prodcutive these days , with start of kahuna to ajax used live.com it is getting the touch of perfection. Competitors seriously need to look out especially I think Yahoo! as their work is not that impressive compared to Google and MSN, these days.
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