Channel 9 is the developer focused video/forum/news site on MSDN that allows us to peek behind the curtains at the people behind the software at Microsoft.  Today they’ve unleashed a totally rebuilt website, built on ASP.Net MVC with a clean …

In a race to get a post up before the battery dies/wifi craps out/the plane boards, we’ll make this one quick, even though the announcements are significant.

First, some Bing news: Bing has (finally) added public transportation information to Bing …

Been asking a few question from our Twitter account about IE9, as with one dead laptop battery, spotty hotel internet (we’re at Starbucks now),  and holding some great conversations with Softies and others on IE, Windows Phone 7, San …

IE9 BOTW…

We’re about to head out for the IE9 Beta launch, but just to whet your appetite TechCrunch has posted a short interview with Dean Hachamovitch, where he talks about some of the new features of IE9, specifically the ability …

Back at the hotel after a full day of IE9 goodness, hope you all have had a chance to download and install the bits on your Vista or Windows 7 machines.  Long Zheng has a nice slideshow up to complement …

With at least an RC for Windows Live Essentials 2011 rumored to be coming at any time, Microsoft is adding some pretty cool new hardware optimized for Windows Live 2011: the LifeCam Studio.  In a press release issued …

On Wednesday (11am PDT GMT-7)we’ll be in San Francisco for “Beauty of the Web”, the beta launch of Internet Explorer 9.  IE9 promises to bring modern standards compliant browsing to a Microsoft browser for the first time, in addition to …

For many, Internet Explorer has been much more a beast than a beauty over the last few years, but with a new emphasis on standards, on using the “same markup”, Microsoft has finally come to the table with a newly …

A Spanish-language financial focused website, elEconomista.es, is reporting today that Windows Phone 7, to be announced by Steve Ballmer on October 11th in New York, will go on sale in Spain on October 21st

Ten days later on October