Facebook chat became available to Windows Live Messenger 2011 beta refresh users a little over 3 weeks ago, and we’ve seen the number of users connecting Facebook to Messenger growing stronger than ever (over 8 million active users now!). …

For many, Internet Explorer has been much more a beast than a beauty over the last few years, but with a new emphasis on standards, on using the “same markup”, Microsoft has finally come to the table with a newly …

A Spanish-language financial focused website, elEconomista.es, is reporting today that Windows Phone 7, to be announced by Steve Ballmer on October 11th in New York, will go on sale in Spain on October 21st

Ten days later on October

Yesterday Google showed off its latest product, dubbed Google Instant (you can check it out using this URL: http://www.google.com/webhp?sclient=psy). If you remember last year Long Zheng worked up a prototype of something quite similar, using the Bing API:…

Pocket-Lint is reporting that Microsoft is set to kick off its launch of Windows Phone 7 with “a lavish event” in New York City on October 11th, to be beamed around the world.  While some are skeptical of the date, …

Outlook Connector, both the 32 and 64bit versions, were updated today, and you can get them here:

• Outlook Hotmail Connector 32-bit
• Outlook Hotmail Connector 64-bit

I had to uninstall the previous version (14.0.5118.4000) to get the new one (14.0.5118.5000) to …

Sad to say that the US education system is in a bit of a sad state currently, but Bing is trying to do something about it, launching a new site and new initiative focused “providing information and resources to learn, …

Yesterday I attended the very first Open@4 Press Event at Microsoft headquarters here in the Netherlands. Open@4 (the meets start at 4 PM) are informal press meetings to be held quarterly, with a different topic each time. This time the …

The Microsoft / Yahoo! Search Alliance is in full swing, with the consolidation of the organic search results completed and paid search expected to be combined by October.  So with that news, as reported by Nick Eaton at the Seattle …

New on the WindowsPhoneUK YouTube channel is a promotional video teaser for Windows Phone 7:

The Revolution is Coming – WindowsPhoneUK

Apparently this is a trailer that was shown prior to a “Secret Cinema” screening of Lawrence of Arabia, where …