2008

Windows Live For Nokia Now Available In 33 Different Countries

The Windows Live Services for Nokia has just been made available in 7 new countries. It already was available in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, …

Windows Sysinternals: Now Live

The Sysinternals web site was created in 1996 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell to host their advanced system utilities and technical information. Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July, 2006. Whether you’re an IT Pro or a developer, you’ll find Sysinternals …

Microsoft To Offer Multimedia Training On Holland America Cruise Lines

Surely on a cruise from Holland America Cruise Lines you’ll have a good time. But how to pass that on to family and friends? The Seattle Times just posted an article letting us know Microsoft will be offering digital media

Ray Ozzie to keynote PDC 2008 – Register now

The first content announcements for PDC 2008 have just been made, with Ray Ozzie unsurprisingly keynoting this event. Running from 27-30 October in LA, PDC provides a whole range of developer sessions and announcements.

Although the various sessions are still …

BBC and Microsoft run UK developer event – Mashed

If you’re a developer and interested in working with some cool technologies at a BBC hack day, then check out Mashed 08. Being held in London at the Alexandra Palace on June 21-22, this is the BBC’s very own …

Windows Live Agents SDK Released

The Windows Live Agents blog posted a couple of weeks back that a new version of the Platform and SDK was coming soon, and that day is seemingly upon us. In a blog entry that has just gone up …

Why Sinofsky’s head-in-sand approach doesn’t work for Windows Live

What happens when you take the man in charge of the world’s most-used operating system and ask him to talk about the future? Not a lot when that man is Steven Sinofsky.

Ina Fried from Cnet today posted an interview

Virtual Earth Control for Visual Studio 2008 Previewed at Remix Australia

I was very proud to announce and show for the first time in public Microsoft’s upcoming Virtual Earth control for Visual Studio 2008 as part of the Windows Live session at Australia’s remix event. Remix Australia was held last week …

Live Search Books, Academic to shut down

In a memo posted this morning on the Live Search blog by Senior Vice President Search, Portal and Advertising Satya Nadella, both Live Search Books and Live Search Academic will be shut down next week.

Today we informed our partners

Farecast, Product search, mobile demos from Satya Nadella at Advance08

I’ve been getting a little more familiar with the little video camera I picked up a few weeks ago. Today at the Advance08 advertisers summit at Microsoft in Redmond, as part of the keynote with Bill Gates and Satya Nadella, …