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Hotmail DAV Protocol retired; won’t work in Outlook, Outlook Express, or Entourage

Last June, the Windows Live Hotmail team posted on some upcoming changes to the way Hotmail is handled by client email readers, and as of September 1st (yesterday, most places), the old protocol, DAV, (or Web DAV) has been retired

Descent into the video posting maelstrom

maelstrom Yesterday I drove out to Redmond (which can take anywhere from 25 minutes to 2 hours depending on traffic – actually made great time) to meet with Mike Torres and talk a bit about Windows Live Movie Maker, which was …

SxSW 2010 voting closes Friday; thumbs up for Angus and Bing?

sxsw SxSW Interactive, held every year in Austin, Texas (SxSW 2010 is March 17-21) is fast becoming the social networking place to be.  Of course it doesn’t hurt that it’s held in conjunction with SxSW Music, one of the …

WL Movie Maker Program Manager Mike Torres – a LiveSide interview

wlmm Windows Live Movie Maker version 1.0 for Vista and Windows 7 was released nearly two weeks ago, and we gave you an early glimpse of it when it first came out (and even before that).  Today we were able to …

Popfly RIP (but you can get the game engine from CodePlex)

popflyRIP Popfly, the game creator mashup experiment from Microsoft, closed its doors for good last Monday, but as a “parting present”, the Popfly creators have put the Game Engine portion of Popfly up on CodePlex.  Most of the …

Live Mesh incompatible with Apple Snow Leopard 10.6

livemeshblog Apple released Snow Leopard 10.6, the latest upgrade to its OS,  last week, and the list of incompatible apps keeps growing.  The latest is unfortunately Live Mesh.  From the Live Mesh blog:

With the recent Apple announcement regarding the

New Bing TV ad for Cashback: First Stop – Bing

TechCrunch has the first Bing Cashback TV ad up on YouTube, a pretty straightforward ad introducing Bing Cashback to the masses.  TechCrunch’s Jason Kincaid says:

“most people probably had never even heard of the program until now. This is the

MSN and Bell Canada to close Sympatico.MSN.ca on Tuesday: creating own separate sites

msnca Microsoft and BCE Inc., owner of Bell Canada, will shut down Canada’s most popular portal site, sympatico.msn.ca, on Tuesday.  Each company will then launch their own Canadian sites, MSN.ca, and sympatico.ca.   The two have been in partnership …

Bing SDK for iPhone and Mac released as open source

Want to get in on all the iPhone app glory, but with the goodness of Bing?  Now you can, using the Bing iPhone and Mac SDK, available on CodePlex as open source under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL).  According to …

New version of Outlook Live for Windows Mobile available – for some

outlooklivelogo As part of the upcoming release of Exchange Server 2010, a new version of Outlook Live for Windows Mobile became available today.  This new Outlook Live, formerly Exchange Labs and code named Skyline (not the Outlook Live that preceded …