2010

XNA Game Studio 4.0 unveiled at GDC

The big news for Windows Phone 7 Series is still to come at Mix next week, but today at the Game Developer’s Conference, Microsoft unveiled XNA Game Studio 4.0, part of a comprehensive plan to get app development for …

Bing Earth Day homepage contest, students (US) only!

The next Bing homepage contest got announced at NCCE Seattle. This time the Bing team asks students in the United States to submit photos to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. The contest kicks off on March

Introducing the new Windows Live Solution Center – now expanded beyond Hotmail support

Windows Live Solution Center Back in 2008, Microsoft introduced the Windows Live Solution Center (WLSC), originally intended to focus on problems and solutions specifically for Hotmail. Today upon visiting the website, it seems like Microsoft recently updated Solution Center to support all Windows …

TechFest 2010: Next generation Image Composite Editor with Multi-Image Fusion technologies

Last week we presented you with one of TechFest 2010’s new research projects: OneAlbum. Today we’ll introduce you to another piece of new technology from Microsoft Research labs – Image Composite Editor (ICE) with Multi-Image Fusion. To some of …

More Wave 4 screenshots on LiveSino.net, only this time they’re blocked in China!

This morning our friend Picturepan2, as he likes to be called, posted a couple more Wave 4 screenshots, which to be honest are pretty much just more of the same (although the Windows Live Photo Gallery image manipulation is …

Bing to “take on Goliath” in the UK with new ad campaign

Microsoft is readying a new ad campaign for its “decision engine”, Bing, in the UK, set to begin soon and run through June, according to NewMediaAge:

The TV campaign will run regularly for a month and then in two-week

Windows Live Wave 4 at Mix? Follow our liveblog and find out

Back in November at PDC, Ray Ozzie announced onstage that Microsoft would share more about the latest from Windows Live “in the Mix timeframe”.  Since then, we’ve been getting some peephole views of what’s to come, but when are we …

Gary Flake’s TED talk on Pivot now available

A few weeks ago Microsoft made quite a splash at TED, with talks by Blaise Aguera y Arcas on some amazing stuff to come for Bing Maps, Bill Gates on energy, and Dr. Gary Flake from Live Labs …

Windows Phone 7 cross platform game coding, playing

More and more is revealed about coding for Windows 7 series phones. We don’t even have to wait for MIX10 to catch a glimpse! WMPoweruser.com discovered a video from TechEd Middle East showing off a game being started on the …

Keep up with the latest Windows Phone news, tweets (all on LiveSide!)

The news around Windows Phone 7 Series is really starting to heat up: today Sunshine pointed to a video coming from TechEd Middle East, where Eric Rudder showed a game played on a PC, then a Windows Phone, then on …