This is the fifth article I have written on a technique to add high performance shape rendering to the Virtual Earth map control. Every article has been an evolution introducing new technologies, extending the functionality and optimising the algorithm. Although …

Apparently the shroud of secrecy that surrounds Windows Live and Wave 3 doesn’t extend to help files, as our friend Picturepan2 at LiveSino.net discovered as he was snooping around doing some investigative reporting.  While Microsoft has maintained that FolderShare …

With the amazing 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony just finished, Live Search has updated their first background image on the homepage for the Olympics, as reported yesterday. Now available at Live Search’s Chinese market, here’s what it looks like, …

Sunshine posted today on the improvements to My.Live.com, and we’d say they’ve done an excellent job!

We highly recommend that you set up a My.Live.com page, and add your favorite (ahem) technology blog, and other blogs to your content.  …

 My.Live.com just got an important update:

• New Header, with links to Home, Hotmail, Spaces, Onecare and MSN. The Orb gives access to even more, just like on all other Windows Live sites
   
• Usability Improvements
  A confirmation

The Live Search Webmaster Center, which was launched in beta last year is no longer in beta! And that’s not all! The Webmaster Tools got a big update as well. At the Webmaster Center you will be able …

With the 2008 Beijing Olympics due to begin in less than 24 hours, Live Search decides to join the game by providing the following Olympics-related features, all set to go live by Friday 08/08/08:

• The Live Search homepage, with

Windows Live Translator is coming to Office 2003 or 2007 as a Research pane option.  According to the MSR-MT Team Blog, the new feature will be coming out soon as an automatic update to Office:

We have officially handed

Today while trying to retrieve my documents stored on Windows Live SkyDrive, I came across a pop-up window asking me to fill out a little survey on how to help Microsoft to “improve SkyDrive” in the future. Half-way through …

I logged into my developer blog today (although we have had a couple of reports of sightings prior to this) to discover a message waiting for me which shows that Microsoft are starting to really push the linked Windows Live …