Yesterday Google showed off its latest product, dubbed Google Instant (you can check it out using this URL: http://www.google.com/webhp?sclient=psy). If you remember last year Long Zheng worked up a prototype of something quite similar, using the Bing API:…

Pocket-Lint is reporting that Microsoft is set to kick off its launch of Windows Phone 7 with “a lavish event” in New York City on October 11th, to be beamed around the world.  While some are skeptical of the date, …

Outlook Connector, both the 32 and 64bit versions, were updated today, and you can get them here:

• Outlook Hotmail Connector 32-bit
• Outlook Hotmail Connector 64-bit

I had to uninstall the previous version (14.0.5118.4000) to get the new one (14.0.5118.5000) to …

Sad to say that the US education system is in a bit of a sad state currently, but Bing is trying to do something about it, launching a new site and new initiative focused “providing information and resources to learn, …

The Microsoft / Yahoo! Search Alliance is in full swing, with the consolidation of the organic search results completed and paid search expected to be combined by October.  So with that news, as reported by Nick Eaton at the Seattle …

New on the WindowsPhoneUK YouTube channel is a promotional video teaser for Windows Phone 7:

The Revolution is Coming – WindowsPhoneUK

Apparently this is a trailer that was shown prior to a “Secret Cinema” screening of Lawrence of Arabia, where …

As of today, operating system for Windows Phone 7 is complete, and released to manufacturing.  Terry Myerson made the announcement today in a blog post:

Today is the day that the Windows Phone team has been driving towards, and we’re

Sometimes we focus so much on all the latest upcoming news that we forget to talk about some of the cool existing features in Windows Live.  Windows Live Photo Gallery does some pretty amazing stuff, from simple photo fixing, to …

(Hey look, more naming confusion, yay! Yesterday’s Inside Windows Live blog post didn’t mention it, but we just noticed that the “Known Issues” page refers to “Windows Live ActiveSync”, go figure.  Anyway we’ll probably call it EAS for Hotmail …

Just spotted a tweet from our friend Kristen at Bing, pointing to the latest Visual Search for Bing, this time World of Warcraft weapons:

The interactive visual search shows 3000 top WoW items, in twelve zones.  Clicking on any …