Get breathtaking views of the United States delivered to your desktop with this free Windows 7 theme that captures the best of Bing Maps aerial photography. Once downloaded, this dynamic theme updates automatically through an RSS feed. For more …

As announced last week, Microsoft released version 1.2 of the Windows Azure toolkit for Windows Phone at TechEd North America 2011.

Additions to the toolkit:

• Support and tooling for the Access Control Service 2.0
• Support for Windows Azure Storage

Well it looks like Bing gave up on trying to squelch the news and just went ahead and officially announced tomorrow’s today’s big announcement– Bing is now quite the Social animal, thanks to an expanded partnership with Facebook via the …

This morning, a press release was published to the Microsoft News Center, and Tom Warren from WinRumors.com was quick enough to grab the url.  The release (and Tom’s tweet with the url) was quickly pulled, but thanks to Bing cached …

We told you this weekend about some “unofficial” news about Windows Phone coming from WPDevPodcast, and now a post on the Windows Phone Blog has made some of of that news official.

While we should be hearing a lot …

A post over at Search Engine Land today expresses shock over the notion that Nokia will power, if not outright replace, the back end infrastructure for Bing Maps. Search Engine Land contributing editor Greg Sterling had lunch with a person …

Last week, (right after they interviewed Brandon Watson), the Lowdermilk boys over at WPDevPodcast posted on some new features for Windows Phone coming in Mango, including Bing Audio and Bing Visual.  Well, they’re at it again!

This time, they’ve got …

by Travis Pope, Zune MVP

For three years I’ve listened to tech luminary Paul Thurrott on his Windows Weekly Podcast tell us about the future of computing and cloud integration. I laughed at his repeated attempts to convince the wider …

Yesterday Ad Age posted that Bing, next Tuesday, will be launching the inclusion of Like buttons on search results.  Ad Age says:

The updated service, which launches Tuesday, will incorporate data from the largest social network, which has become a

With all the news on Windows Phone and Windows 8 recently, things had been quite quiet on the Windows Live front. But that doesn’t mean the Windows Live teams have been resting. Bits and pieces have surfaced from the recent …