Office Live Workspaces, announced on Monday and set to go into beta in December, will provide workspace manipulation and storage from within Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and integration with Outlook), and a web browser interface with a viewer for …

Today I saw a somewhat interestingly timed post about MSN’s profitiability, or lack of. The analysis is based on the Online Services Business (OSB), which is split out as one of the reportable segments in Microsoft’s annual and quarterly company …

The Live Search team posted today to welcome in their new colleagues from Madison, Wisconsin, Jellyfish.com.  According to the Jellyfish website, Jellyfish is a “new kind of search engine” (aren’t they all?):

What is Jellyfish.com?

Jellyfish is a new

Some big news just dropped in my inbox, as Office Live has been renamed, to Office Live Small Business, and a new offering, Office Live Workspaces has just been announced.

First of all, nothing about what was up until now …

One of the four “verticals” of the new Live Search 2.0 is Health,  available at https://health.live.com.  Actually the first of the new features of the service is just that, an encrypted entry into search about health information, using the …

I had an opportunity to sit down with Satya Nadella, Corporate Vice President, Search & Advertising Platform Group, right after he presented at Searchification. We talked about the “super-positive” internal buzz within Microsoft about the new search, some strategies …

At Searchification today, Microsoft publically showed for the first time some aspects of Live Search 2.0, including a “quantum leap” in search relevance, with Nadella saying their research shows them equal to Google and ahead of Yahoo in relevance, big …

Just spent the day at SVC, the Silicon Valley Campus of Microsoft in Mountain View, California.  Since there is an embargo until 9pm pdt tonite, I can’t give you any details just yet, and will actually be on an airplane, …

On Wednesday, I’ll be at “Searchification” where Microsoft will be presenting their improvements to Live Search, some of which we’ve already seen.  While even the likes of Mini Msft seemed to be pretty impressed by what they saw …

Andrea Jessee, a Senior Program Manager with Microsoft Research Machine Translation Group, has somewhat belatedly but thoroughly posted on the Windows Live Translator beta.

Andrea highlights some of the features of the “Bi-Lingual Viewer” which didn’t get much press when …