Microsoft and BCE Inc., owner of Bell Canada, will shut down Canada’s most popular portal site, sympatico.msn.ca, on Tuesday.  Each company will then launch their own Canadian sites, MSN.ca, and sympatico.ca.   The two have been in partnership …

Those who remember back in last year’s PDC 2008 Microsoft announced that they will officially support OpenID in their Windows Live ID service. Almost 10 months later of testing with the CTP, the Windows Live ID team has finally updated …

From the Messenger team’s blog post today, Microsoft has announced that all users of Windows Live Messenger will be prompted to upgrade their client to the latest version (14.0.8089.726) in the following months, if not weeks, depending on your current …

Want to get in on all the iPhone app glory, but with the goodness of Bing?  Now you can, using the Bing iPhone and Mac SDK, available on CodePlex as open source under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL).  According to …

As part of the upcoming release of Exchange Server 2010, a new version of Outlook Live for Windows Mobile became available today.  This new Outlook Live, formerly Exchange Labs and code named Skyline (not the Outlook Live that preceded …

Ken Levy, who left Microsoft just a bit over a year ago after working on the Windows Live Platform team, and “kick starting” Dev.Live.com, has been doing (among lots of other things) a podcast for Code Magazine online.  In his …

We missed commenting on this earlier in the week when it came out, but Yahoo! made an announcement regarding its newly revamped set of services, including Yahoo! Mail, Messenger, and search.  Featured among the changes are:

• a new streamlined design

OnlineColleges.net, a website ranking and reviewing online colleges, has put together a list of 50 tips for students and librarians using Bing.  Broken down into categories such as “Finding Information”, “Research and Collaboration”, and “Images and Video”, the site …

Just as the Live Framework CTP, this one will also disappear. It lasted little over a year. On the question what will happen with the Virtual Earth/Bing Maps ASP .NET Control, Chris Pendleton posted the following:

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The Windows Live Mail team has posted on their blog today about what was updated and fixed in the latest release (build number 14.0.8089.0726) that came along with the new Windows Live Movie Maker. Here’s a few of the …