February, 2011

Office Web Apps continue to expand global availability

Office Web Apps continue to expand global availabilityStarting today, Office Web Apps become available in 150 new countries including India, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand and more. So people in these countries can use Office Web Apps to view, edit and share Office documents on …

Matt Cutts is pissed: Should Microsoft respond?

It’s pretty apparent that Google thinks they caught Bing with their hand in the cookie jar, and they’re not happy.  Or at least Matt Cutts isn’t, although if you believe the likes of Kara Swisher at All Things D, …

New from Hotmail: Email Alias

Well this is kinda cool – today Hotmail unveiled a nifty new tool to manage your mail, the Hotmail Alias.  Here’s how it works.  First, log in to your Hotmail account and right click the inbox settings icon (the wheel/gear …

Windows Home Server RC Preview released with a replacement for Drive Extender (sorta)

whsEven though Windows Home Server isn’t specifically a Windows Live product, it does fall within the consumer space, we happen to like it, and we like to keep you up to date on what really is an essential component of …

“Google vs. Bing” now up on BigThink.com

Yesterday, amid all the hubbub about Google calling Microsoft “cheaters”, and Microsoft firing right back, came a Bing sponsored conference in San Francisco held by BigThink.com.  The four hour conference was supposed to be a discussion about the future …

Windows Live (you know, the Facebook chat client) gains a Senior Vice President

Congratulations go out today to Senior Vice President of Windows Live, Chris Jones.  Jones has been a Corporate Vice President for Windows Live, but his status was updated today on the Microsoft executives page (thanks for the tip, you know …

Bing/Google: The Battle at Bigthink.com recapped

bigthinkSorry to say we missed all the commotion today, but apparently there was quite a donnybrook between Google and Bing, featuring a whole cast of characters, name calling, accusations, dueling blog posts, and tweet battles.  Whew,  if this keeps up, …

Bing Travel Update: improved destinations and hotel pages

Bing team is rolling out two new improvements to one of those Bing vertical search engines – Bing Travel, specifically, to Destination and Hotel pages which are parts of Bing Travel.

First is Bing Destination. Bing Destination landing …