Author Archive

Windows Phone 7 available in Canada same time as US: WMPowerUser.com

wmpoweruserlogoWMPowerUser is doing a great job of covering the latest Windows Phone 7 news (we’ve got them in our Windows Phone Blogs We Like section, and hey they even have their own WP7 app!), and today they have some …

No EAS for Androi… Oh Look, Bing Mobile for Android (Verizon)! (Updated)

While official support for Exchange ActiveSync for Android phones is apparently “months” away (unofficially some Android phones, specifically 2.2, and specifically not 2.1, may work), Bing Mobile hopefully will be able to divert your attention today by announcing Bing for

Exchange ActiveSync now available

OK it’s official, Hotmail Exchange ActiveSync is now available, according to a blog post on Inside Windows Live.  The setup details are the same as we’d posted earlier, here they are:

Server / URL

m.hotmail.com

Username

Enter full email

Messenger Connect discontinues .Net Library

An email sent to beta testers and posted on the Messenger Connect forums announced today that Microsoft is discontinuing the Messenger Connect strongly typed .Net Library, instead offering samples of code which work directly with Messenger Connect web services, using …

Windows Live Activity Streams

This week Rob Dolin wrote up a good summary of Windows Live Activity Streams, the information you see on Windows Live Home, in the expanded Messenger window, and soon on Windows Phones. 

Today we added a “Share with Messenger” …

A new (old) name for Live Sync: Live Mesh !?!

We’ve been hearing rumblings about a Live Sync name change, and sure enough, today on the Inside Windows Live blog Microsoft is announcing that Live Sync will be renamed as…Windows Live Mesh.

Geez we’re not going to even bother …

Exchange ActiveSync, coming on Monday August 30: our recap

One of the most hotly anticipated features of Windows Live Wave 4, judging by the interest here and elsewhere, is Exchange ActiveSync for Hotmail.  The long promised feature first surfaced here thanks to an alert LiveSide reader back in June, …

A sneak peek at IE9 UI: What do you think?

This morning Mary Jo Foley caught Microsoft’s Russian subsidiary’s website showing off what looks like our first glimpse at the new IE9 UI:

ie9-ui

The single image (since taken down, of course) shows a simplified look, with a combined search/address …

Office Web Apps updated: Print from Word Web App; Excel Charts and AutoFill; more

Windows Live Essentials isn’t the only suite to be updated recently, a blog post on the Office Web Apps blog (and featured on Inside Windows Live) points out a number of new features for Office Web Apps.  Like Essentials, …

Yahoo! organic search in US, Canada now “Powered by Bing”

The Microsoft-Yahoo! search alliance continues to move forward on schedule, and today Microsoft Senior Vice President Satya Nadella announced “a great milestone for Bing and Yahoo!”, as all (organic, meaning non-paid) searches on Yahoo!, in the US and Canada, in …