It’s still Sunday night here on the West Coast, early Monday morning in the east but still far too early for AT&T stores to open for the first day of Windows Phone sales in the US, but the AT&T website …

At this week’s 18th annual ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, one of the submissions from Microsoft Research may provide better driving directions for Bing Maps, by following taxis to learn the best routes around …

It started with a post this morning on the Bing Maps blog (well really started last night when Bing Maps developers were alerted to the upcoming changes via email): an announcement on the end of Bing Maps 3D, and an …

Microsoft announced today a new feature for Hotmail, called EASI ID, allowing you to set up your favorite email address to use Hotmail and get the benefits of features like Sweep, or sending 10GB of (50MB each) pictures in one …

LiveSide reader Alex alerted us to a problem with Windows Live Calendar that apparently started within the last 24 hours or so, where users have found all their Calendar appointments for most of the month of November and the early …

One thing we learned this week at PDC, Microsoft is All In, all over the place.  This year, they’ve been All In with Azure and the cloud..

“For the cloud, we’re all in,” said Ballmer during an address and

FourSquare and Windows Live Photo Gallery have teamed up in a bit of a pilot project to help you find great places to take photos, starting in 3 US cities: New York, San Francisco, and Seattle.

Start by following Windows …

This morning Dean Hachamovitch announced a new tech preview of IE9, complete with CSS3 2D Tranforms, “and a whole lot more”.  However, like the IE9 tech previews before it, this latest preview is meant to show off some new tests …

We’re sitting in the Microsoft Conference Center listening to Steve Ballmer, Dean Hachamovitch, Scott Guthrie, Bob Muglia and others talk about the latest in Microsoft’s developer platforms, including IE9, WP7, and Azure

A new platform preview of IE9, Platform Preview …

Maybe because we don’t have to travel for this one, or because we’re not expecting big Windows Live news, but this PDC has kind of snuck up on us.  Starting Thursday morning in Redmond, Microsoft will be hosting the first …