First, thanks again for all of your feedback. There's nothing like receiving comments and ideas directly from some of our 115 million monthly Spaces users worldwide. 

Based on what we've heard from you, here's the latest round of changes we've made:

• You now have the ability to remove updates from specific people in the what's new area of your Spaces home page. 

At the bottom of your (signed-in) Spaces home page, you now have an “Options” link. 

Clicking “Options” will take you to a “What’s new Options” page where you can choose who of your Spaces friends and Messenger contacts show up on your home page.

• We've added back your list descriptions for all lists when they are displayed in the narrow column
• The font for custom lists is no longer bold by default
• We changed the Sponsored Results module to reflect the transition of our partnership with Kanoodle
• We've made some additional smaller changes which you won’t see but which will further improve the Spaces service

We hope you enjoy these changes.   As always, keep the feedback coming. We are listening.

- Chris
Product Manager, Windows Live

Congratulations to our colleagues on the IE team on the release of Beta 1 of Internet Explorer 8!  Whether it’s IE, FireFox, Opera, Safari, or other browsers, it’s always exciting to see new versions of browsers released.   

The Beta 1 of IE8 is intended primarily for developers (not necessarily consumers or enterprises), so I don’t expect everyone to go download it immediately.  But if you do decide to download the Beta 1 of IE8, and you notice any issues with Windows Live Spaces or Windows Live Events we wanted to give you a way to view existing bugs and report any additional bugs.

The IE8 team has set up a bunch of ways to provide feedback to them and they outlined them on their team blog:

So, what do you do if you believe you have an issue that the IE team needs to know about? Here are the steps we encourage you to take:

1. Read the IE8 Release notes – we try to outline most of the known issues in this document at the time of release. 
2. Visit the Internet Explorer 8 Technical Beta program on Connect (http://connect.microsoft.com) and view bugs in the database. Note: you must register on the Microsoft Connect to search for your issue
3. If you find your issue, please rate it (vote for it). This will help us understand how many people find this issue important
4. If you don’t find your issue, you can visit the IE beta newsgroup and post your issue there. Members of the technical beta will be monitoring this newsgroup and can file a bug about the issue on your behalf in the technical beta

I just wanted to make sure that you were aware of the best ways to get help if you have problems with the Beta 1 version of IE8 on any of the Windows Live Services.  You can of course always leave us feedback and comments here on the Space Craft, but in order to ensure that they are addressed correctly, we recommend following the steps listed above.

--Rob
Program Manager, Windows Live