Yesterday was the Silverlight 4 Launch. Launch, where are the bits? I don’t see them! That’s right, there aren’t any until tomorrow, April 15th. Bit strange no, a launch without the actual product…

Anyways, nothing we can do about …

Yesterday, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and .NET framework 4. A little warning for those of you using the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP:

If you install the retail (RTM) release of Visual Studio 2010 on the same machine

The following 20 countries will gain access to the Microsoft Windows Azure platform this week in the mentioned currencies:

• Australia $ AUD
• Brazil $ USD
• Chile $ USD
• Colombia $ USD
• Costa Rica $ USD
• Cyprus € EUR
• Czech Republic

There’s been a lot of posts about the work being done on spam prevention lately on Inside Windows Live, and now the Hotmail Team found that spammers are abusing Hotmail’s automatic vacation reply feature. To prevent spam they’ve …

This week Bing shopping got some updates. On the left side there’s a list of product categories, which you can click to go to the part of the “catalogue” to find the product you are looking for.
 
All very …

Are you on Windows 7 and like the Bing homepage images? You can have the best of them as wallpapers for your desktop! The first Bing’s Best theme pack was so popular, the team decided to release a second Bing …

Email is very important, online you can’t go without it. As Dick Craddock, one of the Hotmail engineering team leads, says: “Email is your online identity.”

Hotmail has lots of users. There’s over a billion inboxes that generate over 2 …

Have you seen the Windows Phone 7 Series demo apps during the MIX10 keynote? Want to see them again? The Windows Phone Developer blog has a post up with videos of all the demos shown during the keynote:…

Bing Maps got some updates in March, with promises of more to come. Here are the changes already implemented:

Walking Directions – Walking Directions allows you to calculate directions between two points in a way that would allow you to …

Have you been developing Windows Phone 7 apps/games yet? Or don’t you know where to start? Charlie Kindel wrote up a nice summary post to help you out.

Your first stop should be MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network for those of