Next month we’ll begin our 6th year of covering Windows Live news and information.  We’ve seen a lot come and go in the past 5 years (brought home by our recent move to WordPress which caused us to go back …

While last week’s Reddit question and answer session was skewed heavily toward a desire for Microsoft to stick to standards (and leave all the social networking out), today’s announcement of Hotmail Active Views brings us another improvement to Hotmail that …

Bing made news today, both for its “fall update” release of new apps for iPhone and Android, partnerships with OpenTable, GrubHub, and FanSnap, and deeper collaboration with Facebook, and also for a new set of search numbers from …

Good news for Windows Live users, and Windows Live plugin writers, a new page, apparently a replacement for Windows Live Gallery (gallery.live.com) has appeared, at http://plugins.live.com.  The new page will serve as a host for plugins for Windows Live …

Australia’s  biggest telco is considering migrating customers of its BigPond Internet service provider division from their own in house versions of email, photos and online storage to Windows Live, according to a post on Australian tech site Delimiter.

Delimiter …

We spotted a tweet today about a Hotmail “Ask Me Anything” session today hosted on Reddit.com, and while we weren’t able to attend, it looks like our friends from Hotmail got quite a bit of attention, and some direct …

A post today on the Windows Phone blog makes a couple of announcements: first, that developers will now be paid their first installment in the 4th week of January, instead of sometime in February as initially announced:

We are pleased

Well this one is even more exclusive than the usual Bing “US only” announcement, but quite cool anyway: in a blog post today, Bing Maps has announced “Mall Maps”, which feature individual store locations inside of (mostly Washington State, …

Today IE announced its Tracking Protection technology in a blog post on the IE Team blog.  Along with it came posts from MS Advertising and MS on the Issues, touting the privacy protections, opt-in model, and open specifications …

This morning the IE team announced a new set of functionality to the upcoming Release Candidate of IE9, Tracking Protection and Tracking Protection Lists.  In short, Tracking Protection offers users (and very interesting that the IE team blog chose to …