Compete.com released their version of March US search market share numbers on Friday, showing a surprising surge for Live Search, up nearly 4 percentage points from February (a notoriously slow, and short, month), and up .7% year over year.  …

Where there’s smoke, there’s bound to be fire, and yesterday’s leaked warning shots across Jerry Yang’s bow resulted in a letter today from Steve Ballmer to Yahoo!, saying in effect: take the offer we have on the table, …

MediaWeek is reporting on the unveiling of “an ambitious slate of original programming created for its multiple web platforms, including the MSN portal, MSNBC.com and Xbox Live” before a group of ad agency and marketing types at a Digital Showcase …

As most will know by now, Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web, an Adobe Flash competitor. Mary Jo Foley discovered a Microsoft …

We just can’t get enough of Ray Ozzie’s latest project Live Mesh, so much so that when we saw what could be the current logo on the dogfood mobile login page, we just had to share. It reminds …

OneCare, the anti-virus/tune-up/back-up all in one program, has just opened up a public beta of version 2.5 (current released version is 2.0.2500.22, on my machine, anyway).  Anyone can go to Microsoft Connect and sign up and try the new beta, …

In what can only be described as a bizarre and non-sensical decision, Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on Windows Live Writer. Our insider sources tell us that because of the long delay between builds for the final release …

It’s true, not an April Fools joke after all. Windows Mobile 6.1 just got announced at CTIA in addition to the new version of Internet Explorer Mobile:

LAS VEGAS— April 1, 2008 —Windows Mobile is improving smartphones to

This morning in Las Vegas, at the CTIA Wireless 2008 convention, Microsoft President – Entertainment & Devices Division Robbie Bach is announcing a set of new features for Windows Live Search for Mobile, available soon if you have WLS …

Because a large population is still using IE6 and web developers are struggling to get their sites IE6 compliant, Ron Goff and Kevin Thompson of the Conveyor Group started a campaign:

Save The Developers – Say No to IE 6