Just now when writing up the previous post on Bing Streetside coming to UK maps, we noticed something quite interesting: our Bing Maps Streetside has morphed into what Microsoft Research has called “Street Slide”:

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Bing Maps Streetside, which provides an “on the ground” look at mapping locations, allowing you to “walk” certain streets and see stitched together photographic images of the area, has only up until this point been available for certain parts of …

Two years ago, Microsoft acquired TheGreenButton.com, at that time an independent site focused on Windows Media Center, with an active set of forums and users.  The Green Button, according to TheWayback Machine, was most active in 2005, but still …

At the Internet Identity Workshop today in Mountain View, Microsoft has announced that it will support OAuth 2.0 in the next version of Messenger Connect, according to a blog post by Dare Obasanjo on the Windows Live for Developers blog…

As promised, Microsoft is rolling out a security update to Windows Phones today, to update security certificates after Comodo inadvertently signed 9 certificates without properly validating the 3rd party’s identity.  Numerous sites reported that the patch would be pushed out …

A report in The Australian’s business section is reporting that NineMSN, the joint effort by MSN and Australia’s Nine Network, will soon be sporting a new look.  The cleaner look, much like MSN.com in the US, will allow …

A bit of news coming out of the Zune Insider podcast this week: Zune Support pages have been revamped, with a new landing page, easily navigated support categories (Zune software, Zune on Windows Phone 7, Zune on Xbox Live, etc.), …

A few details are starting to filter out about how Nokia actually plans to utilize the Windows Phone operating system in its phones, beginning as early as this year and expected to ramp up significantly in 2012.

We know that …

Bing Shopping is sporting a new look today, according to a post on the Bing Search blog.  The new look features bigger images, Facebook integration (so you can get birthday reminders from within Bing Shopping!), and a new home …

While Bing, or Bing Maps for that matter, don’t have the market share that Google or Google Maps have, Microsoft has been working hard to not only catch up but surpass its competitors in creating high quality photographic maps.

Today, …