Next generation “touch-first” Windows Live apps in the works

We’ve seen Microsoft’s next generation operating system Windows 8 a few months ago, featuring a brand new “immersive” interface that makes it really intuitive to use on touch-based devices such as tablets. As mentioned during D9, they designed Windows 8 …

By damaster in News
July 21st, 2011 at 6:47 am

Windows Live Mesh for Mac

Got Mac and want Live Mesh to keep your files and folders synched? Download the new version now.
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Windows Live Mesh for Mac brings Live Mesh and the previous version of Windows Live Sync together into one product. With Windows …

By Sunshine in News
July 21st, 2011 at 2:43 am

Here we go again, Bing changes spotted in the wild

Looks like the on again off again Bing HTML5 rumors may be on again, along with some other quite interesting changes some are reporting seeing to the Bing home page.

First, the home page changes.  Rafael Rivera posted today on …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
July 20th, 2011 at 9:07 pm

Devs getting lots of love today: Azure, Mango, Windows Live announcements

A trio of announcements for developers (and developer wannabes) today coming from various parts of Microsoft, all intending to make it easier to write and deploy your apps.  We’ll start with Windows Live, because, well, we’re LiveSide!

Dare Obasanjo posted

By Kip Kniskern in Developer Mobile
July 20th, 2011 at 10:18 am

Microsoft talks more about Twitter integration on Windows Phone “Mango”

We reported a few weeks ago that Microsoft had been testing Twitter integration on Windows Phone “Mango” and Windows Live internally. Today, the Windows Phone team posted several new videos on their YouTube account, with various program managers talking …

By damaster in Featured Mobile
July 20th, 2011 at 3:27 am

Gigwalk to bring 3D Panoramas to Bing–from your iPhone

Gigwalk-logoBing is partnering with a new 9 week old company, Gigwalk, “the first on-demand mobile workforce” to bring 3D Photosynth panoramas of retail stores and restaurants into Bing Maps.  Gigwalk uses a mobile workforce of iPhone users who download

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
July 19th, 2011 at 10:51 am

ITC ruling against HTC’s Android may push OEMs to adopt Windows Phone; Huawei now interested

Apple vs HTCThe U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) recently ruled against HTC that it had infringed two patents belonging to Apple Inc., according to reports from AllThingsD.com. At least one of the patent, 5,946,647, appears to be related to Google’s …

By damaster in Featured Mobile
July 19th, 2011 at 6:33 am

Nokia WP7 Sea Ray video emerges

The guys at WPCentral have spotted a Youku (a Chinese version of YouTube) video showing Nokia’s first Windows Phone device, code named Sea Ray.  The video shows a little unboxing ceremony, (note the actual hardware buttons for home, search, and …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
July 18th, 2011 at 11:17 pm

Games for Windows Marketplace now on Xbox.com; wild rumors on Xbox and Windows 8 integration, and more

Two weeks ago we reported that Games for Windows Marketplace is slated to be migrated to Xbox.com, potentially being the first step for the convergence of Xbox LIVE across the Xbox 360, Windows Phone, and the Windows PC. Today, …

By damaster in Featured News Opinion
July 18th, 2011 at 8:01 am

Twitter and Microsoft: What’s the deal?

twitter-bird2A post at All Things D yesterday revealed that, after Twitter and Google parted ways (at least temporarily) recently, things maybe aren’t going so well in negotiations to renew the relationship between Twitter and Bing.

Bing, like Google, signed a …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
July 16th, 2011 at 12:45 pm