Last week Steve Ballmer announced that Ray Ozzie would be stepping down from his position as Chief Software Architect at Microsoft, and today , Ozzie published a memo he wrote to “Executive Staff and direct reports”, entitled “The Dawn …

Ken Levy was a Visual FoxPro MVP, went to work for Microsoft where we met him, left again, and has been busy on a number of projects ever since.  One of those projects is “CodeCast”, a podcast for …

Windows Phone 7 became available for sale today (Oct. 21) in Europe, Australia and elsewhere (US sales are set to begin on Nov 8), and at least some Australian consumers had a hard time finding the new phone to buy, …

Microsoft announced today a beta trial of a new hosted suite of services, dubbed Office 365.  The new suite combines Office Web Apps, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and Lync Online into a single bundle either for small businesses (less …

We’re still working through some details of our move to WordPress, but there’s more to LiveSide than just new themes, and we’ve got some interesting tidbits to report.  This one comes to us from our friend Nikhil in India, who …

In an email to employees today, CEO Steve Ballmer has announced that Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie is leaving Microsoft:

…Ray and I are announcing today Ray’s intention to step down from his role as chief software architect. He

Boy this is a little nerve-wracking!  This morning we switched our blog over to WordPress, running a self-hosted site on our Windows Server.  We’ve been working behind the scenes for the last few weeks, and still have some work to …

A pair of blog posts on Inside Windows Live today are announcing that Messenger Connect, the set of development tools that allow you to bring Windows Live Messenger functionality into your website, has gone final.

First, Jeff Kunins announced that …

Microsoft has been strangely quiet about a Windows Live Messenger app for Windows Phone 7, with no mention early on, and a conspicuous absence in a blog post the other day by Windows Live Corporate VP Chris Jones.  Now …

Just in from Microsoft, the official announcement:

Today, in partnership with Facebook, Bing announced new social search features that provide a more personal search experience based on an individual’s Facebook network. In the offline world, we know people rely on