Earlier today, reports are coming in that users are getting Hotmail’s Exchange ActiveSync working again. I went in and tried it on my iPod touch, and to my surprise it actually worked perfectly – it synced all my mails, …

Well it looks like Gallery.live.com may be nearing the end of its days.  According to a blog post by Aaron Bregel from the Live Writer team, an email was sent out today (August 10th), informing Writer plug-in authors that they …

A number of sites including Mary Jo Foley’s All About Microsoft, Neowin, and Francisco Martin’s Microsoft Journal are reporting their expectation of a new beta version of Windows Live Essentials 2011 (or Wave 4), due next week (according …

For those of you on the Wave 4 beta of Windows Live Messenger, if you’re lucky you might’ve noticed something different today – an icon to connect LinkedIn to your Windows Live service. If you scroll all the way …

Running Windows 7?  Want a fresh new Bing background delivered via RSS every week for 3 months?  Check out Bing Dynamic:

Switch it up! Receive a new photo from Bing every week for three months, with this Windows 7

A couple of days ago Robert Scoble posted on his visit to Vexcel, the wholly owned Microsoft facility that helps to produce Bing Maps imagery, where he toured the 5 petabyte data storage containers used by Bing Maps. He …

Back in June, at the same time as the initial rollout of Hotmail (which ended up taking until last week), a number of you were able to access Exchange ActiveSync for Hotmail.  Just as a refresher, here’s an explanation that …

We told you this week about a new look for Bing Maps, which at first glance gave the maps a cleaner look, removed the white “glow” from around place names, added a “Dynamic” map type, and well, apparently a …

The Microsoft-Yahoo! Search Alliance continues to progress, and in a post on the Yahoo! Search Marketing blog, it looks like the organic (non-paid) phase of the transition is just about complete.  From the blog post:

Yahoo! organic (non-paid) search

As you may remember, last year we switched our comment system to Disqus, and we’ve been really impressed with the difference it’s made.  We’re getting lots more comments than ever before, from a wider range of readers, and it’s …