2009

MSN Web Messenger to retire

Joining Windows Live OneCare, Microsoft Money, and Encarta, MSN Web Messenger is slated to retire on June 30, 2009.  Its replacement, Windows Live Web Messenger, accessible through Hotmail, has been available for a couple of months now, and after June …

Live Mesh: Version Update For Windows (June 25, 2009)

Over on the Live Mesh Team Blog the following just got announced:

Live Mesh for Windows 9.4014.7 has been released. It will automatically update. No action is required on your part. See the following sections for details, and thanks for

Kayak and the Philanthropist: Bing backlash?

By all early accounts, and granted it is VERY early, Bing is doing well.  The buzz seems strong, the numbers are good, and if nothing else people are taking a look at Bing where they didn’t pay Live Search any …

Microsoft Security Essentials Beta Full?

If you thought let’s download Microsoft Security Essentials today, you are too late! Well, at least for now if you wanted the US-EN version:
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We are not sure about the availability in Israel, the People’s Republic of China or Brazil …

The BBC Goes Big On Bing Maps

BBC The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) sure loves Bing Maps. They didn’t publish one, not two, not three but eleven Bing map applications so far!

There’s allsorts varying from an overview of the Berkshire Floods to an Irish Language Map

Microsoft Security Essentials Beta Available Now, Capped At 75,000

MSE_5F00_thumb_5F00_63FCB6FA[1] Microsoft Security Essentials (Morro) Beta is now available for download, as announced earlier.

However take note of the following:

  • The beta is only available to those in the US, Israel (English only), People’s Republic of China (Simplified

Japanese Rookies

Remember the Rookies? After the US and the UK, Japan has now entered the Rookies campaign.
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The children in these series are the children of actual Microsoft Japan employees!

Enjoy!

Via Rob Margel

Bing: The “Old New Thing” *

* (apologies to Raymond Chen)

Another day, and another A-List blogger “discovers” the “launch” of a Bing feature, which of course has been in Live Search for ages.  This time it’s Jason Calacanis, who posted news of the

Deep Zoom Composer – June 2009 Preview Available

The Deep Zoom Composer June 2009 Preview is now available for download. The Deep Zoom Composer now uses way less memory than it did before, so you can work with more images in your composition. Furthermore there are new ways …

Bing Maps: A revealing discussion on Ch. 9

Charles Torre and Erik Meijer spent an hour talking to Bing Maps infrastructure architect Gur Kimchi for an episode of Expert to Expert on Channel 9, and crammed a lot of information and a few juicy tidbits into the …