September, 2009

Windows Live Photos Improvements

As the number of megapixels in cameras increases, and making panorama pictures has been made easy with Windows Live Photo Gallery, it was time for Windows Live Photos to follow suit. Today a new release is being rolled out

Laptop Hunters, Behind The Scenes

Another “Laptop hunters” video appeared. No, not another one looking for a laptop, this time it’s a behind the scenes one.

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Enjoy!

Via: The Microsoft Blog

Using Windows Live: Mail

windows-live-mail-logo Yesterday was Labor Day in the United States, the unofficial demarcation between summer and vacation time and fall.  School is starting again all over, football season is just beginning, and traditionally Microsoft gets back from employees gone on summer vacation …

Share Your Search With Bing And Ping

Searching is one thing, but why do you search? Who do you search for? Is it for you, for a friend, maybe it’s even for a group of friends. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could share the search result

WorldWide Telescope Aphelion Release – Web Version Now Beta

New releases of both the Windows and web Client are now available with many new features and bug fixes. The Windows Client has photo-realistic rendering of the Earth and Sun, as well as shadows of Jupiter’s moons. The new Cosmos …

WL Movie Maker PM Mike Torres Part 2: a LiveSide interview

In this second part of our interview with Mike Torres, a PM for Windows Live Movie Maker, we talk a bit more about how WLMM was built: the weekly meetings with teams from Office and Windows about how to best …

Hotmail DAV Protocol retired; won’t work in Outlook, Outlook Express, or Entourage

Last June, the Windows Live Hotmail team posted on some upcoming changes to the way Hotmail is handled by client email readers, and as of September 1st (yesterday, most places), the old protocol, DAV, (or Web DAV) has been retired

Descent into the video posting maelstrom

maelstrom Yesterday I drove out to Redmond (which can take anywhere from 25 minutes to 2 hours depending on traffic – actually made great time) to meet with Mike Torres and talk a bit about Windows Live Movie Maker, which was …

SxSW 2010 voting closes Friday; thumbs up for Angus and Bing?

sxsw SxSW Interactive, held every year in Austin, Texas (SxSW 2010 is March 17-21) is fast becoming the social networking place to be.  Of course it doesn’t hurt that it’s held in conjunction with SxSW Music, one of the …

Bing Maps Imagery Release, August 2009

The Bing Maps Imagery release of August covers 101,486 kilometers! This release includes imagery of Algeria, Australia, China, Egypt, El Salvador, France, Greece, India, Japan, Kiribati, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Morocco, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, …