Well it took a few days, and I actually got an email saying it would be a few more, and hey watch this video while you’re waiting, but then an invite was waiting for me in another account this evening.  …

Live Search Maps announced via their blog today that a new Chinese version is now available, at www.ditu.live.com (ditu (地图) means maps in Chinese, according to our friend PicturePan2, who was of course already all over this news and has …

Some interesting information from Vincent Tao, Senior Director of Virtual Earth and Live Local Search at Microsoft, from an interview by Brady Forrest at O’Reilly Radar.  While maps.live.com is fully available in China, the ditu.live.com version does not presently …

Microsoft today announced that it had acquired MultiMap, “one of the United Kingdom’s top 100 technology companies and one of the leading online mapping services in the world.”

The acquisition gives Microsoft a powerful new location and mapping technology

Phil Holden points out that a new version of Windows Live Messenger is available for almost all  phones, by accessing MSN Mobile, for both WAP 1.x and WAP 2.x phones.  If you’ve use MSN Mobile on your phone you should be …

Microsoft is today announcing the launch of mobile advertising on its range of MSN Mobile services in US, with mobile advertising already existing on MSN sites for users in Japan and some European countries. Advertisers will be able to extend their ad …

Microsoft announced today that it is rolling out entry into the beta of Office Live Workspaces, a new service that will allow document storage in the cloud from within Office applications.  You can sign up for the beta, and …

We love product team surveys. Not only do they give users the chance to give feedback on a wide range of areas, they often contain leading questions about where the product could be heading. Today’s product team survey is brought to …

Last night Yahoo launched a new beta, its WPF powered IM client – Yahoo Messenger for Vista. A demo was shown at CES in January 2007, however performance was noted to be poor and as a result there has been a 12 month …

Ben Romano, a Tech writer for the Seattle Times, has an interesting tidbit in Tech Tracks today, that MSN and Windows Live product teams will not be moving from their home in what’s known as Red West, a Microsoft …