In a press release today, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Office Web Apps will begin a limited number invitation only Technical Preview.  Office Web Apps will offer lightweight versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on the web through Windows …

Back in August, the Windows Live Messenger team blog posted an announcement regarding a mandatory upgrade to version 14.0.8089, due to security issues.  Beginning on August 25th, Messenger users on 8.1 or 8.5 were reminded to upgrade, but as of …

Today at the TechCrunch 50 conference, Microsoft Senior Vice President Yusuf Mehdi announced a new feature for Bing: Visual Search.

As of this writing, the new search isn’t available yet, but is supposed to be live in beta today…

We’ve been using MoFuse to power our mobile experience for about a year now, and have been very pleased with the service.  Basically MoFuse takes our RSS feed, optimizes it for mobile on a number of devices, and takes care …

While we’re working through getting our new mobile experience at m.liveside.net (not done yet, but getting there) together, we thought it might make a good topic for a poll.  Thanks for responding to our first poll, on how you check your …

We know Wave 4 is coming, and now thanks to WindowsLiveHelp.com, we know at least a few of the changes coming (here already?) to Hotmail.  We don’t appear to be seeing any of them here, yet, do you?

In …

Just saw a tweet that Bing Translator now supports the Thai language, and sure enough, a quick check on our Translator webpage add-in box shows that Thai is at the bottom of our list:

That brings the number of languages …

Microsoft held its annual company meeting earlier today (Wed Sept 10) at SafeCo Field (where the Mariners play major league baseball), and from the tweets and various snippets of posts that filtered out of the stadium seemed to cast Bing …

Yesterday was Labor Day in the United States, the unofficial demarcation between summer and vacation time and fall.  School is starting again all over, football season is just beginning, and traditionally Microsoft gets back from employees gone on summer vacation …

In this second part of our interview with Mike Torres, a PM for Windows Live Movie Maker, we talk a bit more about how WLMM was built: the weekly meetings with teams from Office and Windows about how to best …