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FourSquare teams up with Photo Gallery: tips on great photo spots

FourSquare and Windows Live Photo Gallery have teamed up in a bit of a pilot project to help you find great places to take photos, starting in 3 US cities: New York, San Francisco, and Seattle.

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Running IE9 Tech Preview 6 with full UI

This morning Dean Hachamovitch announced a new tech preview of IE9, complete with CSS3 2D Tranforms, “and a whole lot more”.  However, like the IE9 tech previews before it, this latest preview is meant to show off some new tests …

PDC keynote: IE9, WP7, Azure

We’re sitting in the Microsoft Conference Center listening to Steve Ballmer, Dean Hachamovitch, Scott Guthrie, Bob Muglia and others talk about the latest in Microsoft’s developer platforms, including IE9, WP7, and Azure

A new platform preview of IE9, Platform Preview …

PDC 10 on tap

pdc10Maybe because we don’t have to travel for this one, or because we’re not expecting big Windows Live news, but this PDC has kind of snuck up on us.  Starting Thursday morning in Redmond, Microsoft will be hosting the first …

Messenger for Mac 8 out of Beta

Today Messenger for Mac 8 came out of beta! It will be available (soon) as part of the Office for Mac 2011 suite, and is also available as a free standalone download.

Messenger for Mac 8 is free and …

Some details about the upcoming Hotmail full-session SSL feature

By now you should all have the latest Hotmail update announced back in September 2010. As we mentioned last week, unfortunately the long-awaited full-session SSL (or HTTPS) feature did not make the cut in this update. We know that …

Talking Windows Live with CodeCast

Ken Levy was a Visual FoxPro MVP, went to work for Microsoft where we met him, left again, and has been busy on a number of projects ever since.  One of those projects is “CodeCast”, a podcast for …

Office Live Small Business, Live@edu are now Office 365

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Microsoft announced their new Office 365 cloud service yesterday which combines Microsoft Office 2010, Office Web Apps, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and Lync Online into a single bundle for small businesses, enterprises, and educational institutions. Digging deeper into the FAQs …

Windows Live has a new big brother: Office 365

10-19Office_lgMicrosoft announced today a beta trial of a new hosted suite of services, dubbed Office 365.  The new suite combines Office Web Apps, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and Lync Online into a single bundle either for small businesses (less …

Docs.com updated: Search Improvements, PDF, User Generated Templates

Last week, Microsoft FUSE Labs had made some significant improvements to Docs.com since their August update as stated on their recent blog post. Here’s what was updated in the recent release:

Full Text Search and Social Document Ranking

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