Clicking through the Bing Rewards button on the Bing home page today yielded and interesting discovery, a new Bing Advocacy Program:

Open to US residents 13 or over, the program is looking for charter members in a new community …

Although Windows Phone developers and others running pre release versions of Mango have had it for a while, Microsoft today made version 4.8 of the Zune Software available for download.  You can “Check for Updates” via Settings>General (we’re not seeing …

OK so I like Frank Shaw.  I liked him when he worked at Waggener Edstrom, although we never really dealt directly together, and I like him at Microsoft.  I also quite like him as a person, as a writer, and …

LiveSide reader DrWhoFan98 (thanks!) just pointed us to what appears to be a new feature in Hotmail Calendars (previously called Windows Live Calendars), “new reminders”:

The old Calendar options page is pretty basic:

but in the new one (after you’ve …

Today Bing announced a new collaborative app for Windows Phone (or other mobile devices through a mobile web interface) called We’re In.  Simply put, We’re In allows you to invite, and then map the locations of your friends.  What makes …

In less than a month, Microsoft is hosting its BuildWindows conference, promising to pull back the curtains on Windows 8.  Up until then, the company has been unusually quiet, even for them, on a number of fronts, and we’ve assumed …

So, Google announced today that it was acquiring Motorola Mobility, and we’ve been reading every blog post we can find since then to try and make sense of it all.  In fact, we were trying to make sense of …

Bing Shopping, available to US users, has made a number of improvements to the experience recently, according to a blog post on the Bing Search blog.  In addition to expanding the number of available products and adding top brands …

According to Pocket-Lint.com, Microsoft’s latest version of its Windows Phone operating system, code named Mango is set for release on September 1st, just in time for the IFA Consumer Electronics Show in Berlin on Sept. 2-7.

Note that …

In an interview with Forbes, Skype VP/GM of products and marketing Neil Stevens provided for the first time a bit more detail about how Skype will fit in with Microsoft once the 8.5 billion dollar acquisition deal is approved …