2010

First Windows Phones on sale in Spain (Europe?) October 21?

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

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Windows Live Web Services refreshed – Service Status, Devices, LinkedIn connected service now available!

So yesterday we saw Microsoft (temporarily) updated the Hotmail Calendar service with the new features like weather updates. It seems like that’s just the beginning of a new wave of updates coming to the Windows Live web services. If you …

Google’s Eric Schmidt: “Our competitor is Bing”

The Wall St. Journal has posted an interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and when asked which of the two (Apple or Facebook) he considered to be the biggest threat, Schmidt had some very interesting things to say…about Bing:

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Video: Windows Phone 7 versus Windows Mobile 6.5.5

We’ve already shown you 3 comparison videos (Windows Phone 7 vs iPhone 4 and Android) in a previous article, but today another interesting one turned up that we didn’t want to hold back from you. Here it is, a …

Yes VB Developers, you may develop apps for Windows Phone 7

The biggest wish/request from the WP7 Dev Community for Windows Phone 7 Tools and platform has been granted:

You can now download the Visual Basic CTP for Windows Phone Developer Tools. Provided in this download are all the templates,

Office Web Apps: 20 million strong, now with new features

Office Web Apps, only a little more than 100 days old, already has had 20 million users view, edit, and share Office documents on the web.

Today they’re releasing a number of new features, including embedded Excel and PowerPoint docs, …

More Hotmail updates coming up!

The still fairly new Hotmail has gotten a string of smaller updates. Some were planned, like push email, calendar, and contacts through Exchange ActiveSync, but others were the results of feedback received and acted on during the rollout: right-click …

Bing Rewards launches as US preview

Out of the ashes of Bing cashback rises Bing Rewards, a new program launched today in the US that offers up merchandise rewards or a chance to donate credits to education charities for using the Bing Bar:

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Hotmail Calendar: now live with weather

Or at least it is here.  We told you this weekend about a new feature (and a name change) for Windows Live/Hotmail Calendar, and it looks like the weather bits are live:

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The Hotmail Calendar now features a 5 day …

Rumors are flying! WLE 2011 release (RC?, Final?) Sept. 30?

We know that at some point a new version of Windows Live Essentials is coming.  For one thing, it’s in beta, and fortunately for us Windows Live applies the beta tag a bit more judiciously than some other services *cough* …