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All these Mango features, wow: What’s next, a gold plated Windows Phone?

We have to say we’re a bit overwhelmed by the size and scope of the Mango release announcements from yesterday, everything from a new web based Windows Phone Marketplace to a redesigned SkyDrive (can’t wait to hear more from Windows …

A new SkyDrive, PDF tools, Twitter for Windows Live: lots of juicy bits from Mango

OK so we’re a little upset we weren’t able to make it to New York today for the Mango announcements, but we’ve been making up for it by keeping a close eye on all the tidbits coming out today, and …

The one where we gather up all the Mango news in one post

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While there were few surprises in today’s Mango announcement if you’ve been following the news, it was fun to see everything presented at once, officially.  It’s a pretty impressive showing, and if Microsoft can keep its promises, all current Windows …

Windows Phone Mango live webcast

OK while we sort out our Romanian translations (Google pegs the release as this “summer”, and Bing as “autumn”, for example), we’re getting set to watch the webcast, and you can too:

Here’s the url for the Microsoft News Center

Steven Sinofsky to appear at All Things D’s D9 conference

sinofskyIn a somewhat rare appearance outside of Microsoft environs, Steven Sinofsky has just been announced to appear at next week’s D9 conference, put on by the Wall Street Journal’s All Things D blog.

Sinofsky, President of Windows and Windows …

Wild Rumor Department: Zune to become Xbox Live, more, announcement coming May 24th?

We’ve been hearing lots of rumblings about the future of Zune services, and a couple of tweets from @MSNerd has brought some new, although totally unsubstantiated (read: wild rumor) bits of “information”.  MSNerd tweeted a “wee little rumor” that Zune …

New Bing-Facebook ads debut on Bing’s Facebook page

Today saw the “premiere” two new Bing ads, posted on Bing’s Facebook page.  The ads, of course, celebrate Bing’s new relationship with Facebook “Likes”, which itself debuted earlier this week.  The first one has a group of Facebook …

No more Silverlight for Bing Webmaster Tools?

webmaster-toolsBarry Schwartz at Search Engine RoundTable has noticed something interesting, although there doesn’t seem to be any official news about it (although Webmaster Tools PM Duane Forrester retweeted the news): Bing Webmaster Tools, which up until recently required …

Angry Birds, a “Must Have Game”, but not until June 29

angry-birdsAt Mix, Joe Belfiore announced that the popular birds vs. pigs game Angry Birds would be coming to Windows Phone on May 25th (a week from today).    However in what can’t be much of a surprise, Angry Birds, like seemingly …

Bing goes Social–new Bing Bar, more, available now

Well it looks like Bing gave up on trying to squelch the news and just went ahead and officially announced tomorrow’s today’s big announcement– Bing is now quite the Social animal, thanks to an expanded partnership with Facebook via the …