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Microsoft, the mobile market, and KIN: off to a bad start

Well it didn’t take long for someone to show Microsoft and Verizon just how badly they’ve botched the pricing plans for the KIN.  Barely 12 hours after Microsoft and Verizon announced that it will cost at least $70/mo + …

IE9 Platform Preview Two now available

The second platform preview of the upcoming Internet Explorer 9 is now available, stiill with the Test Drive page, but with lots of new demos in the categories of Speed, HTML5, and Graphics

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Looks like IE9 is moving up …

KIN embargo lifts, pricing is a shocker

KINlogo Lots of news just got released about Microsoft’s new KIN phones, including pricing.  Engadget has written up a long (an none too impressed) review of the new phones, and sums up the pricing in a nutshell:

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Outlook Connector v. 14.0 released

microsoft-office2010 The latest version of the Outlook Connector, which makes it easy (possible) to manage your Hotmail e-mail, calendar, and contacts from within Outlook, is now available for download.  A couple of blog posts have announced the new Connector today (May …

Windows Live Wave 4 beta available June 21, says Microsoft France

Our new friends at Wikikou.fr, a French Windows Live Messenger enthusiast site, have pointed us to what appears to be a definitive time frame for when we’ll see Windows Live Wave 4: on June 21.  Wikikou.fr points to …

Windows Live Wave 4: Can it change “hearts and minds”?

Finally, it looks like Windows Live Wave 4 is just around the corner.  Microsoft last week began to talk publically about Messenger Wave 4, notably in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and in Amsterdam, where Messenger usage is heavy, to put it …

Windows Live on an iPhone: video demo

Sunshine told you about last week’s Next Web conference session on Windows Live Wave 4, and now a video of the Windows Live Messenger app for iPhone from that session is up on the web:

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Steve Ballmer takes the wraps off Wave 4, in Brazil!

Today in a speech to students at the Universidade de Sao Paulo in Brazil, Microsoft CEO is publically showing Windows Live Wave 4 for the first time.  Luckily we already know about much of what is being shown, but it’s …

Bing offers up two more TV ads

Bing got quite a lift when it was initially announced from a series of ads decrying link overload and declaring Bing to be “the decision engine” from Microsoft.  Then last month a new set of ads started appearing in the …

Microsoft-bound: local boy does good

jobvenn We’re very pleased to be able to announce that one of our own, LiveSide co-founder Harrison Hoffman, has accepted a position at Microsoft, and will be moving to the Seattle area this summer to begin working as a Product …