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Windows Home Server “Vail”: a Windows Live connection?

After Mary Jo Foley noted that copies of a new version of Windows Home Server, code named “Vail” were floating out there on the interwebs, there was quite a little flurry of activity as enthusiasts jumped at the chance to …

What’s a Zune phone?

Long Zheng was quick to dig around in last night’s updated Zune software, and quick to find reference to a %phone% (good work, btw!), and this just a day after Microsoft denied publically to Mary Jo Foley that the Zune …

My.live.com to be discontinued on March 15th

We’ve had numerous questions posed to us over the last few months about the status and future of My.live.com, the personal home page that started out as an Atlas framework (now ASP.net Ajax) project managed by Sanaz Ahari and the …

Para Fuera, the life of Dr. Richard Bing

Last October, Bing Director Stefan Weitz wrote about an encounter with a Dr. Richard Bing, who had contacted Mich Mathews, SVP of Marketing, since they had “used his name for our new search engine”.  Weitz and Sean Carver went …

Windows Phone teaser for Mix10

A (very) short post on the Mix10 news blog promises not only news, but sessions for “the next generation of Windows Phone”.  Here’s the short, but sweet, post:

Yes, at MIX10 you’ll learn about developing applications and games for

(Zune, Pink, Danger) Phone rumors heat up: #tmdp

Engadget has been following some very interesting tweets recently, most of them coming “from Danger”, a Twitter source that isn’t used by an existing Danger product (Sidekick uses “from Sidekick”), and the tweeters have been tagging some of their …

Bing: the default search engine on iPhone?

bing_iphone Business Week is reporting tonight that Apple and Microsoft are in talks to replace Google as the default search engine on the iPhone with Bing, as Apple and Google become increasingly more competitive: 

A deal between Apple and Microsoft may

“The Year of Windows Live” – Our interview with Ryan Gavin and Walter Harp

Windows Live Wave 4 is coming, soon, and even though the folks at Microsoft aren’t quite ready to talk about what’s new, we took a few minutes today to speak with Ryan Gavin, Sr. Director of Windows Live Program Management, …

Bing Maps out of beta

Chris Pendleton has been a busy guy today, posting on Destination Maps and Local Events, and to top it off his latest post announces that the Bing Maps Silverlight site is now out of beta:

First off, if

An early peek at Windows Mobile 7: “built from scratch”

WMPowerUser has been following a very interesting Twitter conversation with Eldar Murtazin from Mobile-Review.com, who has apparently scored an early look at an as-yet unreleased phone running an early build of Windows Mobile 7, if you can believe him …