WMPowerUser.com just posted a transcript of an interview done with Brandon Watson, Director of Developer Experience for Windows Phone 7 platform at Microsoft. While nothing specific was announced (as expected), Brandon Watson pointed developers to wait for the MIX 11 …

The Bing Developer team recently posted on their blog announcing that the "Bing Box" functionality on bing.com/siteowner will be discontinued on April 4, 2011. Websites that attempt to query the Bing Box will be redirected to a 404 page. Rather, …

Recently a new third-party Windows Live Messenger app was released on the Windows Phone Marketplace – called Li’Messenger. This app is created by C&R Holdings Limited and is completely free (and free of ads!) for WP7 users to download. …

Guess the previous tip we received about the launch date for IE9 RC on January 28 did not eventuate, despite Microsoft had been hyping up the launch a few days earlier saying that "an announcement will be made soon". Just …

Microsoft silently updated their Windows Live Solution Center website today to have a more consistent look with their Windows Live properties. While not exactly adopting the "Wave 4" header used on the Windows Live web properties, it definitely uses the …

That’s exactly what Microsoft’s latest commercial is about – a documentary about the making of a recent flash mob in Seattle. In the two-minute video, it featured Microsoft’s most popular consumer brands, including Windows Live, Windows Phone 7, Video Kinect …

Microsoft FUSE Labs just rolled out an update to their Docs.com service, touted a “major backend update” with performance and stability improvements. In addition, this update also introduced support for 30 different languages (dialects) which allows users to …

Back in May 2010, just before the launch of Windows Live Essentials 2011 (Wave 4), Microsoft released a small QFE update for Windows Live Essentials Wave 3 which bumped the version number to 14.0.8117.416. The release targeted several bug fixes …

The Microsoft-Yahoo! Search Alliance had been granted approval by the EU almost a year ago, and back in August 2010, the Search Alliance announced that all Yahoo! organic searches in US and Canada had been transitioned to be "powered by …

The pricing and plans for Office 365 for Small Businesses and Enterprises were announced back in October last year, however details about Office 365 for Education – the replacement for Live@EDU – was vague. Today Microsoft announced at BETT …