2010

What you’re saying about #NewHotmailHere

As the blog post on Inside Windows Live said, the Hotmail rollout is really picking up steam!  Thanks to all of you who have taken the time to tweet #NewHotmailHere (or #NoHotmailYet) to @liveside.  Here’s a sampling …

Comparison shopping with the Bing iPhone App

The latest version of the Bing for iPhone (and iPod Touch) app features visual scanning of barcodes and cover art. What would you do with that you say? Well, how about compare prices or read reviews? Andy Chu from the …

#NewHotmailHere sightings around the world – Hotmail Wave 4 rollout expanded

Windows Live HotmailWe’ve been noticing a significant increase in the number of #NewHotmailHere tags on Twitter since Monday morning, as well as receiving many tips and comments from our readers about sightings of the new Hotmail. (Thanks to everyone who tipped us! …

No official list of Windows Phone 7 device makers

We reported last Friday that there would be 5 hardware partners with Windows Phone 7 handsets ready at launch. Turns out later that day Microsoft “turned back” on what was said.

"Microsoft has not made an official announcement on …

Loose lips sink ships

This week it’s TechReady at Microsoft in Seattle, a semi-annual event (this is TechReady 11) where Microsoft product teams show off their new stuff internally, a kind of a top secret product fair.

Microsoft employee and blogger M3 Sweatt, (Chief …

Hotmail Wave 4 Conversation View: gone missing (updated: it’s back)

For those of you lucky enough to have Hotmail Wave 4, apparently one of the new features – Conversation View, has been at least temporarily disabled.  MVP Vasudev tweeted about it:

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Speech recognition in Windows Phone 7

Microsoft acquired TellMe back in March 2007, and the speech recognition features that came with it have been finding their way into a number of Microsoft products, from Windows 7 to the Bing for Mobile app, and soon, of …

5 Hardware partners have Windows Phone 7 handsets available at launch

Greg Sullivan, senior product manager for Microsoft, told Pocket-lint that Dell, Asus, LG, HTC, and Samsung will have Windows Phone 7 handsets available at the launch later this year.

That’s (at least) five launch handsets, some of which, Microsoft has …

Bing Homepage Visual Search Gallery

On the Bing homepage you can take a look at the previous 7 days worth of homepage images by clicking the arrows. But what if you want to view images from further back?

Starting today, there is something for that

Windows Phone 7 and Windows Live Calendar: What you can and can’t do

calendarsSo many developers have gotten their hands on one of the Windows Phone 7s given out by Microsoft, and our friend Paul Thurrott is one of them. While Thurrott is writing his new book on WP7, he’s been updating his