After Microsoft posted two Windows Phone update charts, Eric Hautala, General Manager, Customer Experience Engineering (wait – they’re ENGINEERING this customer experience?  That explains a lot!) also posted on the Windows Phone blog, seeking to explain where the …

Microsoft today, in what must be considered either an attempt at clarification or a perverse form of torture for Windows Phone owners, published a set of charts purporting to show the “status” of the NoDo updates by phone model (…

Bing has updated its m.bing.com mobile browsing experience again, iterating for every platform but Microsoft’s apparently, as browsers with HTML5 support (Windows Phone 7 not among them) get fresh and new content while the built in Bing experience in Windows …

Last week our friend PicturePan2 was here from Shanghai, and I spent more time in shopping malls (looking for the elusive iPad2, long story) than I had in years.  We could have really used Bing’s Shopping Mall maps!  For those …

Microsoft started out touting its “NoDo” updates on a page with the overly optimistic name of http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/features/january-update.aspx, which was quickly changed back when we noted the name on January 5th to “whats-next.aspx”, and ever since then it’s …

We won’t go through all the long and exhausting history of the Windows Phone NoDo update, except to say that we don’t know if Microsoft could have taken the excitement out of a system upgrade any more thoroughly if …

Sorry that circumstances beyond our control (read: busy at real jobs) kept us from posting on this earlier, but we’ve had some recent comments regarding a post that appeared on LiveSide last weekend and then was removed, and we wanted …

Microsoft’s Bing continues to add features to its Travel vertical, this time announcing “Attractions” in a blog post on the Bing Search blog.  Attractions bring together a number of bits of information for some 52,000 attractions around the world, offering …

IE9 was just released this week (you can get it here), and for many there will be a rush to upgrade.  In China, however, it’s a different story.

In preparation for the launch of IE9, a few weeks …

In what may be considered a good sign for the health of the Windows Phone ecosystem, Google has given the new OS a bit of a thumbs up today with the release of a new beta SDK for its mobile …