Whatdoyaknow? Thought you’ve seen the February release….. well, not quite! There’s a part 2 release of Bing Maps Imagery for February too. And it beats the January one in square kilometers at that! A whopping total of 6.7 million …

With MIX10 little over a week away, Microsoft starts talking about the new Windows Phone Developer Experience.

Charlie Kindel wrote a very lengthy article on why Windows Phone 7 Series is so different. Different from what Microsoft has …

If you missed the webcast yesterday, or just want to watch it again: they are available here. In his speech Steve Ballmer outlined the following 5 dimensions:

• The cloud creates opportunities and responsibilities
• The cloud  learns …

Today, March 4, at 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m. PST you can watch Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discuss what’s ahead for computing, with a focus on how cloud computing will change the way people and businesses use technology. Sounds interesting! …

Autosuggest on Bing now supports query history. That means that if you are performing a search, autosuggest will show you previous search queries in the same color your browser uses to display visited links (purple). It even does so …

Seven new languages have been added to the translation service:

• ROM – Romanian
• NOR – Norwegian
• HUN – Hungarian
• SKY – Slovak
• SLO – Slovenian
• LTH – Lithuanian
• TRK – Turkish

This brings the total of supported languages to 30!…

Piero Sierra, Group Program Manager for Windows Live messenger and Windows Live Mail, wrote a very lengthy article about how the team tries to make the Messenger (IM) experience more meaningful and natural.

Take for example the typing indicator, …

Looks like someone has been very busy taking/leaking screenshots, as even more of them appeared on cnBeta.com. Starting off with a screenshot of all the Windows Live apps containing the Ribbon:

In the above screenshot you see (from top …

Last week at the Mobile World Congres in Barcelona, Microsoft took the wraps off Windows Phone 7 series. If you’ve watched the keynote (also available on demand) you saw that Windows 7 phones have a Bing button …

Remember the Race To Market Developer Challenge? Well, today some of the winners got announced over at The Windows Mobile Developer Blog.

• The winner for most downloaded app is Meon Lite from Manbolo.
• The winner for highest value