Depending on which count you use, Windows Phone Marketplace has just, or is just about to top the 5,000 app milestone.  A steady stream of apps continue to be approved each day (with a bit of slowing over the holidays, …

LiveSide received an email today from Product Manager (Evangelism) for Windows Live Harrison Hoffman today (gee that name sounds familiar!), wishing us, and by extension you, a happy holiday season.  Harrison lets us know that Windows Live will be at …

In the first release of any sales numbers so far, Microsoft today in a press release interview of Mobile Communications Corporate Vice President Achim Berg, announced that 1.5 million Windows Phones have been sold from manufacturers to mobile operators …

Planning a trip? Want to know some more about that city in advance? Check out Bing’s new destination pages.

The new feature assembles all the things you need to know to plan your trip, including flight information, hotels, attractions, …

Thanks to a tweet from one of our Twitter followers, we noticed today that Bing Visual Search has a new, non-Silverlight look and feel, featuring (currently) 111 Visual Search Galleries:

Included in the Featured Galleries are Bing Home Page …

Next month we’ll begin our 6th year of covering Windows Live news and information.  We’ve seen a lot come and go in the past 5 years (brought home by our recent move to WordPress which caused us to go back …

Microsoft Security Essentials, released back in September 2009 as a free replacement for the subscription-based Windows Live OneCare, has been updated to version 2.0 today. The final release carries the build number 2.0.657 and includes new features such as:

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While last week’s Reddit question and answer session was skewed heavily toward a desire for Microsoft to stick to standards (and leave all the social networking out), today’s announcement of Hotmail Active Views brings us another improvement to Hotmail that …

Mary Jo Foley posted on ZDNet today reporting that Microsoft is currently planning a major Windows Phone 7 update codenamed “Mango”, which may be shipped as Windows Phone 7.5 (it was also reported that Windows Phone 8 is codenamed “Apollo” …

Microsoft just brought us a major update for Bing today, and in particular for Bing Mobile for iPhone and Android, we’re getting updates such as OpenTable and Grubhub ordering and reservation, Streetside imagery, “check-in” functionality, and real-time public transit information. …