Lots of news about Bing this week, and no, there still haven’t been any announcements about Bing HTML5, even after Build.  Everyone from disgruntled former employees to CNN Money to Google exec Eric Schmidt have been weighing in on the …

A couple of weeks ago, on September 8th, a number of Windows Live Services, including Hotmail and SkyDrive, became unreachable via their respective domain names for a period of from less than two hours to many hours, depending on how …

Arriving in Anaheim earlier this week, we simply weren’t quite prepared for what we heard in our day long “reviewer’s workshop” on Monday, in the keynotes, and in getting someh hands on time with Windows 8 running on a touch …

Our friends from WP Dev Podcast are right up the street about to begin live podcasting our little Build soiree, the Build Blogger Bash.  Check it out and see you there!

This week at Build, we’ve heard about changes upcoming to the way mail and messaging will work in Windows 8, perhaps putting a Windows Live Messenger client and Windows Live Mail out of business, once you’ve moved over to …

Welcome back!  Damaster has been doing great at keeping you up with the Windows Live news from Build, and we’re back with the Day 2 keynote, which is expected to be focused on cloud services, the new Visual Studio tools, …

Here we go again!  This time, we’re in Anaheim, California, for the unveiling of Windows 8.  We’ve been waiting a long time for this, and now finally Microsoft is ready to take the wraps off its touch centric, Metro-styled app …

We’ve received a couple of tips in the past 24 hours or so pointing us to what looks to be another new feature for Hotmail: an inline audio player, and with a little help from our friend F Martin Garcia…

Microsoft’s highly anticipated Build conference, this year’s version of PDC, WinHEC (and Mix?), all rolled into one, gets started next week with keynotes on Tuesday and Wednesday, starting at 9am PDT (GMT –7).

We’ll be there, of course, liveblogging one …

Earlier this evening (Pacific Daylight time), Hotmail, SkyDrive, all the .live.com services, MSN.com, Office 365, and live@edu addresses went down, according to various reports around the web.  Downrightnow.com, a “crowd powered” service monitoring service, pins the service disruption as …