In a blog post today, The Bing Team has announced that Facebook Like results for any of the URLs returned by the Bing algorithmic search results will now be included in US search results:

If your friends have publicly liked

Our friend Tom Warren at WinRumors.com has been busy scouring the interwebs for Windows Phone news, with updated information on some Windows Phone update problems, and an early draft of some upcoming Windows Phone commercials. 

We told you yesterday that …

Just received some new information about Bing Tiles, coming from a Microsoft spokesperson, and they were kind enough to send over some screenshots.  As you can see, the Tiles appear on the right, as Stefan Weitz whiteboarded, and …

The Windows Live Team sent out an email reminder today that Windows Live Spaces will be closing for good on March 16th.  The timing has been announced before, but it’s getting down to crunch time if you’re still using Spaces …

For the first time, an update for Windows Phone is being gradually pushed out to users beginning today.  The update doesn’t do much except “update the updater”, which apparently needs to happen before the long awaited “NoDo” update arrives in …

Microsoft announced today that “Facebook chat is available to Hotmail customers worldwide, wherever Facebook is available”.  Hotmail began integrating Facebook chat into Web Messenger last September, but it was only available in 6 regions.  A few weeks ago, Facebook chat …

The first Windows Phone update is going to be pushed out to WP7 users beginning today, according to a blog post on the Windows Phone blog:

Starting today, some of you might see something new on your Windows Phone:

The sharp eyes of Robert McLaws have just spotted a new page on IE9’s website www.beautyoftheweb.com: a teaser for something (epic! – oooh!) coming, and soon (at www.beautyoftheweb.com/#/unpluggedteaser)

Just checked, and as of this writing there’s nothing on …

Travis Pope, who runs ZuneSpring.com and is a Zune MVP, picked up on an announcement on the Zune Insider podcast from yesterday: Zune HD is coming to Canada.  The podcast, hosted by Matt Akers and Jessica Zahn from Microsoft, …

Microsoft just released the Release Candidate (RC) build of their upcoming Internet Explorer 9 on February 10, their official team blog is already gearing up for their next event – a special party to be held during the South by …