In this release over one million square kilometers of new imagery got added. This is a very special release because, for the first time ever, Enhanced Bird’s Eye imagery got added outside of the United States!

Bird’s Eye: Italy –

Jeff Kunins, the Group Program Manager for social networking across Windows Live, wrote an interesting post about the history of Windows Live Messenger on the Inside Windows Live blog. 

He tells us that the instant messaging category got …

The second part of the January Bing Maps imagery release (total January release: over 1 million sq. km.) has just been released. This time containing 446,000+ square kilometers of new ortho imagery for:

• Brisbane (Australia)
• Brisbane International Airport Area (Australia)

The Windows Azure platform is now generally available in the following 21 countries:

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the United States.

Support …

Haitian Creole has just been added to the list of available translations for the Bing Translator and other Microsoft Translator powered services (including the Messenger Translation Bot):

In the current crisis in Haiti there are a number of initiatives

We already told you that Bing maps published new imagery for Haiti after the earthquake. But what about the imagery from before?

Well, they haven’t been put to waste, they got put in a new map app!

Now …

Need to bake a cake? Wondering how to prepare steak? Bing now provides detailed recipe results.

The results are pulled from a number of popular recipe websites (delish.com, MyRecipes.com, epicurious.com, etc.) and you can sift through them by cuisine, course, …

The Bing team has been working hard to improve search. One of the results is an improved autosuggest. Autosuggest helps you to find what you are looking for faster, often only a couple of keystrokes (first letters) suffice, autosuggest will …

This month’s Bing Maps release is so big they broke it in two. The January 2010 Part 1 release is 558,000 square kilometers of imagery consisting of:

• Germany’s Ruhrgebiet
• Belgium
• Luxembourg
• Vancouver – Sea to Sky Hwy to Squamish

Haiti got struck by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake last week (Jan 12). Many heartbreaking photos and videos can be seen all over (Internet, television, newspapers). If you wish to see an all-over picture of the disaster: Bing maps has …