Some 90,000 Microsoft employees are currently testing a new version of Live Search under the name Kumo (well, some of them are testing it, the other half are using Google, apparently).  Expected to be released (or at least announced) …

This morning a couple of tweets by “OfficeTheMovie”, which has now been confirmed to be not coming from Microsoft (the Office 2010 Twitter account is @office2010themovie), got everyone all atwitter about the possibility of a Zune phone launch …

A new Zune ad campaign featuring financial planner Wes Moss attempts to hit iTunes users right where it hurts: in the pocketbook.  The ad, appearing on the Zunepass.net website, calculates the costs for filling an iPod from iTunes versus using …

Another week, another incremental Live Mesh update, this time all the way from 0.9.3424.31 to 0.9.4014.4.  According to a blog post on the Live Mesh blog, the changes deal mostly with web browser issues:

Fixes

· Updated date/time stamp UI

Sometimes on Twitter Search  you see a bunch of re-tweets, a “twitmeme”, if you will.  Right now a big one is “Microsoft embraces Open Source Big Time for Kumo” (eh, what?, more on that later).  Another one that caught our …

Just out is the official Facebook for Windows Mobile app, available for installation on Windows Mobile 6 phones.  Features include:

• Send messages to any of the people in your Friends list.

• Take pictures and videos on your phone, then

MSN is rolling out a new version of City Guides (http://cityguides.msn.com/), “one step in MSN’s long term plan for Local”, for 30 US cities to start (Edit: 30 cities will receive customized pages; all US cities will get …

Remember back last March when we told you about Virtual Earth/PhotoSynth integration via GeoSynth?  A UK blog, PocketLint, posted a story we picked up on the integration, allowing public Photosynths to be embedded in Virtual Earth maps.  Well now, according …

We reported last week on a countdown clock that a Neowin member spotted while at Microsoft, and yesterday Live Search Tech Evangelist Nathan Buggia tweeted that the internal Kumo trial will soon come to an end:

In preparation for what …

Yesterday marked the second round of layoffs at Microsoft, as some 3,000 employees found themselves among the ranks of the unemployed.  We’ve been trying to piece together some more detailed information about what was cut, and as usual Mini-Microsoft has …