The Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Movie Maker team (and as it happens one of LiveSide’s oldest friends, from back in the MSN Spaces days), Mike Torres, posted on Windows Live Wire today with a status update for …

Bing launched this week, revealing the new name and “decision engine” tagline,  a new more organized layout for search results, tighter integration for verticals like Shopping (including Bing cashback), Travel (including the Farecast technology for predicting airfares and now hotel …

Now Bing has its own YouTube Channel, complete with 2 new ads.  These are variations on a “search overload” theme, much more focused than the initial ad we posted last night.  Here are the two ads up so far …

At SMX Advanced, Danny Sullivan spent an interesting 45 minutes talking with Qi Lu about Bing.  For his first time in public, Lu was engaging but serious about the job ahead, while seeming relaxed and comfortable onstage with Sullivan.  They …

Thanks to one of our alert readers, we get our first look at a Bing commercial:

More information on the Bing Virtual Presskit page on Microsoft Press Pass

Of course it’s a natural that we’d get the cute little “Bing” …

In a blog post on Windows Live Wire, Microsoft has announced that it will discontinue the DAV protocol for accessing Hotmail on September 1, 2009.  DAV (or WebDAV) is an older protocol, not suited to large inboxes, and …

Receiving word from multiple sources, including some of our friends in China, that a number of websites in China are blocked, including Bing.com, Microsoft’s newly rebranded “decision engine”.

Danwei.org, P2P.net, and our friends at LiveSino.net have reports on …

Well the rebrand is thorough, we’ll say that.  Live Search Club has been renamed to Club Bing, with the highly unfortunate url of www.clubbing.com (just please no baby seal games, mmmkay?).  The “club”, basically a blatant attempt to drive up …

Yesterday’s Microsoft Press Conference at E3 included a lot of news on Xbox, including some news about Zune video streaming, but did Amazon.com just make a little announcement of their own?  In a listing for the upcoming Zune HD, …

OK so the official start of summer isn’t for a few weeks, but Microsoft is facing its most important period in perhaps its entire 30 year history, as initiatives in all its important consumer and online services come together.  How …