Well this is kind of sad.  A notice on Alerts.Live.com today is announcing that Windows Live Alerts will shut down:

Thank-you for your interest in Windows Live Alerts. After much consideration we have decided to discontinue this service as part

The first download numbers for IE9 are in, and according to the Exploring IE blog, over 2 million people worldwide downloaded the IE9 beta.  The blog post compares that with the launch of IE8, where it took 5 days …

Twitter follow recommendations that is. The team calls this People Recommendation:

With Twitter growing to more than 145 million accounts, finding interesting people to follow can be difficult. People Recommendation on Bing Social helps you discover interesting and relevant

Over at meraTechPort, our friend Vasudev put together a nice collection of the latest Bing TV ads for the Australian market, all sporting the tagline “Look less, find more”

Nice job Vasudev!  You can check out all 5 YouTube …

Windows Live Calendar was updated to Wave 4 back in June 2010, but it left many disappointed as the only updates it received since Wave 3 was the addition of a mobile counterpart. While the Calendar backend was …

Microsoft today announced “the further international expansion of Zune”, expanding the Zune software and variations on Zune Marketplace and Zune pass to a number of new markets:

The fall 2010 international expansion of the Zune music and video service

Looks like lots of you are trying out IE9, we’ve had over 2,500 visits from the new beta in the past 2 days, and looking forward to that number growing.  We’ve been fairly impressed with the speed changes, and the …

Now the Windows Phone 7 SDK went RTM, the Windows Phone Training Kit for developers also got updated to the RTM version of the tools.

Due to the size of the Training Kit, and to make it easier for you …

Channel 9 is the developer focused video/forum/news site on MSDN that allows us to peek behind the curtains at the people behind the software at Microsoft.  Today they’ve unleashed a totally rebuilt website, built on ASP.Net MVC with a clean …

In a race to get a post up before the battery dies/wifi craps out/the plane boards, we’ll make this one quick, even though the announcements are significant.

First, some Bing news: Bing has (finally) added public transportation information to Bing …