While it’s been exciting to track the #NewHotmailHere sightings and from what we can tell from the comments on Twitter and here on this blog, most of you are pretty excited about the new Hotmail.  For some, however, things aren’t …

Even though the Zune HD app upgrade path to Windows Phone 7 is a dead end, it’s nice to see a couple of new apps appear ready for download to Zune HDs this week.

The first, following in the footsteps …

If you have a WordPress blog and want to map out some information for your blog readers, then you can make use of the Bing Maps for WordPress plugin:

Bing Maps for WordPress allows you to create maps easily

Bing continues to (dare we say it?) innovate, and while some of the improvements aren’t earth-shattering, and indeed some bits of news aren’t even included in Bing (yet), we wanted to make sure to note them here even in the …

As the blog post on Inside Windows Live said, the Hotmail rollout is really picking up steam!  Thanks to all of you who have taken the time to tweet #NewHotmailHere (or #NoHotmailYet) to @liveside.  Here’s a sampling …

The latest version of the Bing for iPhone (and iPod Touch) app features visual scanning of barcodes and cover art. What would you do with that you say? Well, how about compare prices or read reviews? Andy Chu from the …

We’ve been noticing a significant increase in the number of #NewHotmailHere tags on Twitter since Monday morning, as well as receiving many tips and comments from our readers about sightings of the new Hotmail. (Thanks to everyone who tipped us! …

We reported last Friday that there would be 5 hardware partners with Windows Phone 7 handsets ready at launch. Turns out later that day Microsoft “turned back” on what was said.

"Microsoft has not made an official announcement on …

This week it’s TechReady at Microsoft in Seattle, a semi-annual event (this is TechReady 11) where Microsoft product teams show off their new stuff internally, a kind of a top secret product fair.

Microsoft employee and blogger M3 Sweatt, (Chief …

For those of you lucky enough to have Hotmail Wave 4, apparently one of the new features – Conversation View, has been at least temporarily disabled.  MVP Vasudev tweeted about it:

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