Today, Facebook launched a new application, dubbed Facebook Stories, to highlight shared stories about people who have reconnected with friends and family via Facebook. As a part of the application, Bing Maps powers the location data for published stories. …

My eye just caught the following news item:

Jul 21, 2010 (DMEUROPE via COMTEX) — Microsoft Germany has announced a new exclusive service for Windows Live users enabling free mobile internet access. With immediate effect, members of the Windows

Today, the Bing Webmaster Tools gets an update. What’s new in the updated Bing Webmaster Tools? Everything. With your feedback in mind, the Bing Webmaster Team decided to hit the reset button and rebuild the tools from the ground up.…

This summer, all you Tour de France fans can get live tour updates via geo-tagged tweets straight from the course in France and around the world on a Bing Twitter Map hosted by Team Radioshack and LIVESTRONG.com.

For the …

This week PCMAG.COM gave Windows Live Movie Maker Wave 4 Beta an Editors’ Choice Award.

With Microsoft Movie Maker Wave 4 Beta, the Windows Live team has done the seemingly impossible—they’ve made video editing simple, yet powerful enough to create

Bing’s Tuesday homepage was a tribute to a celebration in Japan.
It was there for a reason, as the team blog explains:

We were celebrating as Bing Japan removed its beta tag, launched a new product feature and

There’s a new Bing’s Best themepack available, Bing’s Best: Japan. This pack contains 18 images from Bing Japan.

You can download it by clicking the image above or from the Personalization Gallery.…

The Windows Phone Developer Tools went beta, and that could only mean that there would also be a Beta Refresh of the Training Kit. You can download a local copy of the training kit, or you can go …

Microsoft Research and NASA are providing an entirely new experience to users of the WorldWide Telescope, which will allow visitors to interact with and explore our solar system like never before. Viewers can now take exclusive interactive tours of …

The Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta has gone beta. This Beta release represents the near final version of the tools for building applications and games for Windows Phone 7. 

The Windows Phone engineering team has been keeping a tight schedule:…