October, 2010

Windows Phone Press conference; Zune 4.7 available

Steve Ballmer has just taken the stage, and we’ll be updating this post with Windows Phone 7 news throughout the morning.  While the opening remarks get going, one bit of news from earlier this morning, the Zune software has been …

Windows Phone 7: the fun begins

At 9:30am Eastern Daylight time, Microsoft is set to take the wraps off its long awaited Windows Phone 7, and we’ll be getting up early to follow along as Steve Ballmer and Ralph de la Vega of AT&T announce the

Windows Phone Live teased in Windows Phone 7 video

While we’ve seen plenty of screenshots showing what the “Find My Phone” feature of the upcoming Windows Phone Live service looks like, there had been almost no leaks of the actual Windows Phone Live interface. Well this seems the case …

Microsoft shutters Live Labs

On Friday afternoon word got out that Microsoft has shuttered Live Labs, the incubation project that brought us PhotoSynth, SeaDragon, Pivot, and more, “transitioning” the group to Bing.  The Live Labs website has been shuttered, too:

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Live Labs’ founder Dr. …

Microsoft and AT&T Windows Phone 7 Press Conference: Watch the webcast live!

On Monday, October 11, Microsoft and AT&T are holding what has been described as a “launch party” for Windows Phone 7 at an event in New York City:

On October 11, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Ralph de la Vega,

Directions on Microsoft: Matt Rosoff moves on

If you’ve ever been to Microsoft, the lobby of most if not all of the buildings on campus contain some nice artwork, some comfortable chairs and couches, and a stack of copies of Directions on Microsoft.  The “independent IT …

Windows Live/Bing Photo Contest (US Only)

To celebrate the release of Windows Live Essentials, there’s a joined Windows Live/Bing Photo Contest to highlight Windows Live Photo Gallery.

Photo Gallery is the best place on your PC to organize, edit and share your photos and

Is Firefox adding Bing as a default search engine?

Tonight, Robert Scoble tweeted a single sourced rumor that Mozilla is announcing that Bing will be added as a default search engine in Firefox, as early as tomorrow (Wed Oct. 5).  To add some credence to the rumor, on Sept …

Hotmail gets the Jump List

When the IE9 beta launched last month, one of the features the IE9 team showed off was Pinned Sites and Jump Lists, using Hotmail as an example.  Only the Jump List for Hotmail wasn’t quite yet ready.

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Windows 7 Family Pack makes a comeback!

So now the new Windows Live Essentials has been released, you want to give it a go. But then you realize it will only run on Vista or Windows 7 and you have….Windows XP! Now what? You can of …