April, 2009

How many Softies use Live Search?

In a blog post today, Ina Fried at CNET News quoted a Microsoft employee who recalled hearing some sobering statistics about Google vs. Live Search usage within Microsoft:

At a company meeting about a year ago, one Microsoft worker recalls

What in the world is Tegra?

Tegra is Nvidia’s 1st foray into the mobile computing realm. Nvidia is the company that makes the awesome video cards for your desktops and laptops. Most higher end machines use some type of powerful GPU made by ether Nvidia or ATI. …

Virtual Earth API, 3D updates

Last fall Virtual Earth released version 6.2 of their API, including the Virtual Earth AJAX control, and late yesterday it has been updated, according to a blog post on Chris Pendleton’s Virtual Earth Evangelist’s blog.

Today we released

Live ID goes down around the world (back now)

A problem with Live ID apparently caused Hotmail, Xbox Live, Zune Marketplace, and other users around the world to be without those services for at least an hour this evening (Seattle time).

A comment on our first story blames the …

The Zune HD is real!

A few hours ago engadget leaked screenshots from a video for the Zune HD. Microsoft’s  4th generation of its vastly under loved Zune media player. I can confirm that those are in fact real screenshots of the “Zune HD” (not …

The Internet, Where Do We Spend Our Time? Internet To Overtake TV In June 2010

What is driving time online? What do we do on the Internet? Ever wondered about that? Microsoft has been studying a number of European statistics coming from their own services as well as external data and found the following:

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Content …

Mac’s Are For Kids? New Laptop Hunters Ad

Microsoft just aired the newest version of its popular “Laptop Hunters” ad. So far we’ve seen Lauren & G buy HP’s. Now we are bumping up a style and price level to Sony’s VIAO line up.

 In the spot “Lisa …

Windows Live sign in problems

Windows Live seems to be experiencing wide ranging issues this evening (GMT –8 here), including problems signing in to Messenger, Zune Marketplace, and especially Hotmail.  In trying to sign in to one Hotmail account here, a strange message appears instead:…

Live Search for Blackberry updated

Word is getting out that Live Search for Blackberry was updated recently, and now supports many more Blackberry devices, including the Bold, the Curve 8900, and the Blackberry Storm.  If you have a Blackberry (or another mobile device that …

Office Live Workspace Provides Resumé Help (For College Students) On Facebook

So you’ve graduated, or are close to graduating, and on your way of landing that first job. But to do so you need to write something lots of people dread: a resumé! To help you with that the Office Live