July, 2009

Microsoft to launch new music streaming service “this month”

According to a report in the UK Telegraph, Microsoft is set to launch a new music service this month.  The new service “will offer users the chance to stream music for free and also download to own”.  According to …

Localised Bing background images arrives in Australia, Japan

Last week we reported that the full version of Bing will arrive in Australia, Canada, China, Japan and UK soon, today we see the beginning of this series of update. The Australian and Japanese version of Bing homepage had …

Microsoft Silverlight 3 And Expression 3 Will Be Unveiled At A Virtual Launch Event On July 10, 2009

Even though Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow RC (not final), are already available for download since yesterday, Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 will be unveiled at a virtual launch event today!

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Currently if you go …

Bing! Instantly Find Answers And Add Them To Your Email

“Quick Add” has come to Windows Live Hotmail. Well, in Australia, Canada, China, India, US, and the UK that is…

With Hotmail’s quick add feature, now enhanced with Bing, you can easily search, find, and insert content from

Microsoft SQL Services Is Now Microsoft SQL Azure, More Software + Services News Next Week At WPC09

MsftSQLAzure Microsoft is updating the branding for SQL Services and SQL Data Services. From now on SQL Services will be called Microsoft SQL Azure and SQL Data Services will be called Microsoft Azure Database:

This name change doesn’t reflect a

Deep Zoom Composer – June Preview Features Explained

The latest release of Deep Zoom Composer contains a lot of new features, but how do they work? There is nothing in the documentation due to time constraints. Luckily Janete Perez has written some blog posts highlighting some of these …

New Laptop Hunters Ad – Meet Matt And Olivia

A new laptop hunter add appeared. This time with Matt and Olivia who are looking for a laptop with a large screen, long battery life and the ability to share pictures for under $700.

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That rules out a Mac, …

More markets to get full version of Bing: beta tag coming off?

Ars Technica is reporting that the full version of Bing will arrive in Australia, Canada, China, Japan, and the UK “in the next few weeks”.  Emil Protalinski at Ars Technica does not provide any attribution or link to a source …

Live Messenger Web Toolkit goes multi-lingual

Siebe announced yesterday on the Messenger Developer blog that the UI Controls now available in over 40 languages!

Hello! Hallo! Guten Tag! Buenos días! Hola! Alo! Hallå!

It’s just a selection of some of the languages the UI controls are

Bing Translator: Hebrew Added, What Do You Want To See Next?

Hebrew has just been added to the list of supported languages of Bing Translator. You can use it in the translator but also in the IE8 activity, with the widget, with the messenger bot, inside Office