I had an opportunity to sit down with Satya Nadella, Corporate Vice President, Search & Advertising Platform Group, right after he presented at Searchification. We talked about the “super-positive” internal buzz within Microsoft about the new search, some strategies …

With the new Live Search update adding so much, we thought we’d break it down into some smaller posts. First up we are taking a look at two of the four the new vertical search engines that were announced yesterday: …

At Searchification today, Microsoft publically showed for the first time some aspects of Live Search 2.0, including a “quantum leap” in search relevance, with Nadella saying their research shows them equal to Google and ahead of Yahoo in relevance, big …

Just spent the day at SVC, the Silicon Valley Campus of Microsoft in Mountain View, California.  Since there is an embargo until 9pm pdt tonite, I can’t give you any details just yet, and will actually be on an airplane, …

Learning something new is great, which is why I thought Steve Clayton’s post today deserved a mention. In it Steve quotes a member of the Microsoft Research team, who explains how the panoramic stitching feature in Windows Live Photo Gallery …

After the January Effect we spoke about some months back, all has been quiet on the MSN hompeage front for a while now. Today MSN launched a new homepage design for the UK portal. Featuring a new header with a …

On Wednesday, I’ll be at “Searchification” where Microsoft will be presenting their improvements to Live Search, some of which we’ve already seen.  While even the likes of Mini Msft seemed to be pretty impressed by what they saw …

Andrea Jessee, a Senior Program Manager with Microsoft Research Machine Translation Group, has somewhat belatedly but thoroughly posted on the Windows Live Translator beta.

Andrea highlights some of the features of the “Bi-Lingual Viewer” which didn’t get much press when …

A number of changes to MSN Soapbox just occured, most notably that Soapbox is no longer a stand-alone site, but has become a tab at http://next.video.msn.com.

The old url for Soapbox, Soapbox.msn.com, now resolves to show the “Soapbox User …

Users for years have been lamenting the fact that Hotmail was only available as an http protocol, and did not offer POP access.  Well that’s now changed for Hotmail Plus users, and plans are in the works for making …