Or at least it is here.  We told you this weekend about a new feature (and a name change) for Windows Live/Hotmail Calendar, and it looks like the weather bits are live:

The Hotmail Calendar now features a 5 day …

We know that at some point a new version of Windows Live Essentials is coming.  For one thing, it’s in beta, and fortunately for us Windows Live applies the beta tag a bit more judiciously than some other services *cough* …

Well this is kind of sad.  A notice on Alerts.Live.com today is announcing that Windows Live Alerts will shut down:

Thank-you for your interest in Windows Live Alerts. After much consideration we have decided to discontinue this service as part

The first download numbers for IE9 are in, and according to the Exploring IE blog, over 2 million people worldwide downloaded the IE9 beta.  The blog post compares that with the launch of IE8, where it took 5 days …

Windows Live Calendar was updated to Wave 4 back in June 2010, but it left many disappointed as the only updates it received since Wave 3 was the addition of a mobile counterpart. While the Calendar backend was …

Microsoft today announced “the further international expansion of Zune”, expanding the Zune software and variations on Zune Marketplace and Zune pass to a number of new markets:

The fall 2010 international expansion of the Zune music and video service

Looks like lots of you are trying out IE9, we’ve had over 2,500 visits from the new beta in the past 2 days, and looking forward to that number growing.  We’ve been fairly impressed with the speed changes, and the …

Channel 9 is the developer focused video/forum/news site on MSDN that allows us to peek behind the curtains at the people behind the software at Microsoft.  Today they’ve unleashed a totally rebuilt website, built on ASP.Net MVC with a clean …

In a race to get a post up before the battery dies/wifi craps out/the plane boards, we’ll make this one quick, even though the announcements are significant.

First, some Bing news: Bing has (finally) added public transportation information to Bing …

Been asking a few question from our Twitter account about IE9, as with one dead laptop battery, spotty hotel internet (we’re at Starbucks now),  and holding some great conversations with Softies and others on IE, Windows Phone 7, San …