As we posted last week, the beta will indeed become public sometime tomorrow. Piero Sierra just announced it on Inside Windows Live:

Tomorrow, hot on the heels of the Hotmail roll-out, the new Windows Live Essentials becomes available

Here is the full session about Windows Phone 7’s marketplace at TechED 2010. In this video you can see the Marketplace application on a real LG Panther phone, a beta version of the Trial API and more information about unlocking …

According to Francisco Martin Garcia, we’ll see the beta of Windows Live Essentials next Thursday/Friday (24/25 June). He also notes that the final is delayed by half a month.

Let’s hope he is right, we’ve waited long enough now!  …

We already mentioned it briefly here, The King Of Bing Maps Contest. This week Chris Pendleton wrote a bit more about it and said that, on top of the prizes, he’ll promote the winner and his/her app:

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David Dennis over on Windows Live Inside just announced that you can now access and manage your Windows Live Calendar from any web-enabled mobile phone.

You can browse upcoming events and see when you’re free so you can quickly add …

Bing has struck a deal with Opera: Bing will be one of the default search engines. This already holds true in the beta version that got released today.
Using Bing as your search provider is as easy as clicking …

We’ve already shown you various ways to watch the Stadiums, now you can also watch the emotions unfold in GoalMap2010.

There is nothing in the world that triggers as much emotion as a goal on the world stage.

Want to talk to a friend about your search results, for example something you found about the World Cup? It’s possible now. Bing has gained yet another way to share search results and that’s through, you guessed it, Messenger!

You …

You know those lines of text that gets added when you send messages from Hotmail? They are called taglines.

Brian Hall writes:

When Hotmail first started in the mid-90s, taglines helped people to discover our then revolutionary new

Yay, it’s here, the new World Cup map app! Chris Pendleton just posted about it on the Bing Maps Blog:

The New World Cup map app highlights all the different countries participating in the 2010 FIFA World Cup