Obviously this should come as no surprise to Microsoft watchers, but the Zune  players were finally laid to rest today in a notice on Zune.net:

We recently announced that, going forward, Windows Phone will be the focus of our

Following the announcement of the new features coming to Hotmail Wave 5 this morning, Microsoft (in conjunction with SEVEN) released the official Windows Live Hotmail app for Android phones in the Android Market. According to the app’s entry, …

We’re down here in San Francisco, at the Robert Fountain Studio, with Chris Jones, the Corporate VP of Windows Live Engineering, to talk about Hotmail, where it’s been and where it’s going, and to get a first look at a …

Our friend Long Zheng spotted news of an upcoming Nokia Maps app for Windows Phone, apparently coming to (at least) Nokia Windows Phones when they begin to show up sometime shortly after Nokia World at the end of this …

Our friend (and now MVP colleague) Travis Pope just alerted us that the Windows Live Gallery (gallery.live.com), at one time a  repository for gadgets, emoticons, and plugins for Spaces, Writer, Messenger, and more, is no longer, not that it comes …

There’s been quite a few news about Nokia recently. First we have information about a Nokia “Sabre” Windows Phone device, and next we have Nokia “Ace”. Today Long Zheng from iStartedSomething noticed a private marketplace listing for the official …

LiveSide.net and the MVP program have a long history.  Before there was a Windows Live MVP program, a group of beta testers who came to be known as the MSN (and later Windows Live) Butterflys served to test and give …

Yesterday we just posted details about an upcoming Nokia Windows Phone codenamed Nokia Sabre, and today MyNokiaBlog received an anonymous tip about another Nokia Windows Phone device codenamed Nokia Ace. Specifications about Nokia Ace, as well as the previously …