Today on the Windows Phone blog, Aaron Woodman, Director of the Mobile Communications Business division, made an announcement of a new companion service coming for Windows Phone 7 named Windows Phone Live. As the name suggests, this will …

(UPDATE: just added a poll in the right sidebar: “How was your Essentials install?”, vote please!)

(apologies to those of you who not only saw, but responded to an earlier version of this post that I somehow published …

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

We’ve been taking a little Twitter poll this weekend, asking our Twitter followers to reply to us @liveside with #NewHotmailHere or #NoHotmailYet, and the preliminary results aren’t too encouraging: 32 negatives with not a single positive response.

To be …

According to a blog post at the official Brazilian Windows blog, Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 starts rolling out today to the 47 million Hotmail users worldwide. (Thanks for the tip Anderson C.!) Here’s what the translated version of …

Microsoft announced that they will end the Bing Cashback program on July 30 at 9:00 pm PST.

Dear valued cashback customer:

We are writing to notify you that the Bing cashback program will be discontinued, and the last day to

Some new improvements to Docs, the FUSE Labs from Microsoft Research project that allows you to upload, share, and edit Microsoft Office documents on Facebook, has received a bit of an update.  From docs.com:

Docs Site Update!! Thank you

We’re very pleased to be able to announce that one of our own, LiveSide co-founder Harrison Hoffman, has accepted a position at Microsoft, and will be moving to the Seattle area this summer to begin working as a Product …

There are going to be some changes to Bing. Today at SES New York the Bing team shared their plans to begin testing some new Bing features as they are moving into he next wave of innovation rolling out later …

Mix 10 starts on Monday morning (at 9am Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7), as Daylight Savings Time starts in the US on Sunday March 14), and we’ll be there to liveblog the event (we’ll have a post up on Monday with …