A couple of weeks ago we started noticing an interesting referrer popping up in the stats for some of our posts. Turns out Microsoft moved their Wave 3 services from the dogfood servers onto beta servers, and as a result some MSFT employees were clicking through to us from http://home-beta.live.com. You wont be able to sign in to any of the beta sites yet if youre not on the approved list (the betas havent started yet if youre worried), but heres a few gems we learnt while digging around.
Note as the new sites are locked down, these are just features weve spotted/inferred from looking around the existing sites that are running side-by-side. Whats great is that now new features can be tested before being rolled out to the general public, something which Spaces has needed ever since one of its updates rendered the service unusable for several weeks.