We’ve only got 2 weeks to go before Mix, when we’ll be hearing a LOT more about Windows Phone 7 Series and what it means for the mobile marketplace (and the Zune Marketplace).  Today, however, to go along with a …

Autosuggest on Bing now supports query history. That means that if you are performing a search, autosuggest will show you previous search queries in the same color your browser uses to display visited links (purple). It even does so …

Seven new languages have been added to the translation service:

• ROM – Romanian
• NOR – Norwegian
• HUN – Hungarian
• SKY – Slovak
• SLO – Slovenian
• LTH – Lithuanian
• TRK – Turkish

This brings the total of supported languages to 30!…

Picturepan2 was digging around on MicrosoftTranslator.com and noticed a new URL, for www.microsofttranslator.com/m/, which takes a word or phrase and translates it on a mobile device.  We haven’t seen this before, although the Indic Language Input Tool beta has …

Following our last post on the new Windows Live Wave 4 header, showing you some of its new functionalities and the organisation of services, this time we will show you several of the new themes that will come with …

Piero Sierra, Group Program Manager for Windows Live messenger and Windows Live Mail, wrote a very lengthy article about how the team tries to make the Messenger (IM) experience more meaningful and natural.

Take for example the typing indicator, …

This week, Cryptome.org, a website that has taken to publishing “secret” guides for law enforcement agencies attempting to gain information held by internet companies such as Microsoft (with Hotmail, Live ID, etc.), Yahoo!, and others, was apparently served a DMCA …

Charlie Kindel, the “Partner Group Program Manager for the Windows Phone Application Platform & Developer Experience” (now there’s a mouthful!), announced a new blog right after Windows Phone 7 was revealed at MWC, and his first in-depth post admits that …

Following our Part 1 coverage on LiveSino.net and cnBeta.com’s leak of new Windows Live Wave 4 screenshots, this time we’ll take a glimpse at the next version of Windows Live SkyDrive, Family Safety, Sync and Movie Maker. We’ll examine …

Looks like someone has been very busy taking/leaking screenshots, as even more of them appeared on cnBeta.com. Starting off with a screenshot of all the Windows Live apps containing the Ribbon:

In the above screenshot you see (from top …