We have also released a new gadget developer SDK at microsoftgadgets.com. The SDK has a lot of good information about how to develop a gadget. We have also published a full list of our public APIs . Please give us feedback on how we can improve this SDK...

We had a new release yesterday where we fixed some major performance issues. We also fixed a bug with IE. We were using quite a few transparent .PNG files on the page. In IE6, this is rendered using an ActiveX object. For some reason, (mostly timing issues...

We just released some new updates to Live.com. Sanaz just posted about the changes in our team blog . We have done some work to improve performance. One of the things Sanaz hasn't mentioned is compression. We have turned on compression which improves...