For those of you on the Wave 4 beta of Windows Live Messenger, if you’re lucky you might’ve noticed something different today – an icon to connect LinkedIn to your Windows Live service. If you scroll all the way …

Running Windows 7?  Want a fresh new Bing background delivered via RSS every week for 3 months?  Check out Bing Dynamic:

Switch it up! Receive a new photo from Bing every week for three months, with this Windows 7

A couple of days ago Robert Scoble posted on his visit to Vexcel, the wholly owned Microsoft facility that helps to produce Bing Maps imagery, where he toured the 5 petabyte data storage containers used by Bing Maps. He …

Back in June, at the same time as the initial rollout of Hotmail (which ended up taking until last week), a number of you were able to access Exchange ActiveSync for Hotmail.  Just as a refresher, here’s an explanation that …

We told you this week about a new look for Bing Maps, which at first glance gave the maps a cleaner look, removed the white “glow” from around place names, added a “Dynamic” map type, and well, apparently a …

The Microsoft-Yahoo! Search Alliance continues to progress, and in a post on the Yahoo! Search Marketing blog, it looks like the organic (non-paid) phase of the transition is just about complete.  From the blog post:

Yahoo! organic (non-paid) search

As you may remember, last year we switched our comment system to Disqus, and we’ve been really impressed with the difference it’s made.  We’re getting lots more comments than ever before, from a wider range of readers, and it’s …

With Windows Live Wave 4, along with a bunch of improvements, there were a few setbacks, noticeably with the absence of Twitter as a Windows Live Profile partner.  Unfortunately, due apparently to some changes in Twitter’s terms of service, Windows …

Thanks to Steve Clayton for keeping us up on the latest Live Labs news (you can follow Live Labs on Twitter – hey they’re hiring!), as they release a new project –Zoom.it.  Zoom.it is a simple way …

We told you last night about the new Lavender look to Bing Maps, and the new Dynamic map type with clickable place names.  Today, as expected (we love how Bing keeps pushing out the blog posts!!!), Chris Pendleton goes …