Windows Live (you know, the Facebook chat client) gains a Senior Vice President

Congratulations go out today to Senior Vice President of Windows Live, Chris Jones.  Jones has been a Corporate Vice President for Windows Live, but his status was updated today on the Microsoft executives page (thanks for the tip, you know …

By Kip Kniskern in News
February 2nd, 2011 at 9:26 pm

Bing/Google: The Battle at Bigthink.com recapped

bigthinkSorry to say we missed all the commotion today, but apparently there was quite a donnybrook between Google and Bing, featuring a whole cast of characters, name calling, accusations, dueling blog posts, and tweet battles.  Whew,  if this keeps up, …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing Featured
February 1st, 2011 at 11:14 pm

Bing Travel Update: improved destinations and hotel pages

Bing team is rolling out two new improvements to one of those Bing vertical search engines – Bing Travel, specifically, to Destination and Hotel pages which are parts of Bing Travel.

First is Bing Destination. Bing Destination landing …

By Picturepan2 in Bing
February 1st, 2011 at 12:49 am

Windows Phone data problems traced to Yahoo! mail app (we knew that)

within-windowsA small percentage of Windows Phone users (man, that must be a REALLY small number) apparently have been seeing abnormal data usage on their Windows Phones, and today our pal Rafael Rivera from Within Windows posted on some experiments he …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
January 31st, 2011 at 11:10 pm

Rumor: Windows Phone 7 update Feb. 7?

no-donutsA rumor has started, apparently from some French Windows Phone enthusiast websites, that the by now long awaited Windows Phone 7 update, code named “nodo” (for no donuts) may appear as early as Monday, February 7.  …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
January 29th, 2011 at 8:21 pm

Li’Messenger released for Windows Phone 7 – and it’s better than the “official” Messenger app?

Recently a new third-party Windows Live Messenger app was released on the Windows Phone Marketplace – called Li’Messenger. This app is created by C&R Holdings Limited and is completely free (and free of ads!) for WP7 users to download. …

By damaster in Mobile
January 29th, 2011 at 4:36 am

Internet Explorer 9 RC launch party on February 10

Guess the previous tip we received about the launch date for IE9 RC on January 28 did not eventuate, despite Microsoft had been hyping up the launch a few days earlier saying that "an announcement will be made soon". Just …

By damaster in News
January 29th, 2011 at 4:09 am

New Windows Phone update KB published, update coming soon?

Microsoft has published a rather daunting looking Knowledge Base article on troubleshooting Windows Phone 7 update problems, presumably getting ready for the hopefully soon to arrive update to the new phones.  The update is widely expected to add copy/paste functionality …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
January 28th, 2011 at 1:08 pm

Microsoft touts data security on “Data Privacy Day”

data-privacy-dayToday is “Data Privacy Day” (what, you didn’t take the day off?), and Microsoft is celebrating by rolling out a blog post on how much they’ve been doing lately to protect our accounts, especially in Hotmail.

The blog post, on …

By Kip Kniskern in News
January 28th, 2011 at 10:05 am

Microsoft posted its earnings report early (who knew?)

seleritycorpAlongside the news of Microsoft’s second quarter earnings (yup, they’re still making boatloads of money, except for Online Services – MSN and Bing – which are still losing boatloads) came an interesting little twist.  A small, ahem, “low latency, …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
January 27th, 2011 at 10:37 pm
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