Zune Marketplace, sign-in down

Some parts of Zune.net, including the Marketplace and (at least here) the ability to sign in to your Zune account from the Zune software are down as of this morning.  A message posted on the Zune support page confirms the …

By Kip Kniskern in News
January 15th, 2011 at 9:32 am

Microsoft-Yahoo! Search Alliance expands to five markets globally

Search AllianceThe Microsoft-Yahoo! Search Alliance had been granted approval by the EU almost a year ago, and back in August 2010, the Search Alliance announced that all Yahoo! organic searches in US and Canada had been transitioned to be "powered by …

By damaster in Bing
January 15th, 2011 at 1:43 am

New Golden Globe commercials: Will Windows Phone get the part?

This weekend marks the Golden Globe awards, film and television awards presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and marking the beginning of the entertainment awards “season”.  Bing and Windows Phone are getting in the act, and will show …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing Mobile
January 14th, 2011 at 9:38 am

Experian: Bing increases 5% in December: is Google feeling some heat?

david-and-goliath1Last fall Google CEO  Eric Schmidt admitted that “our biggest competitor is Bing”, and with the Bing/Yahoo! search alliance firmly in place, numbers for Bing are increasing, or “growing like a weed”, as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
January 13th, 2011 at 11:37 am

Bing Feature Update: Enhanced Auto Search

With the North American International Auto Show just around the corner, the Bing team feels that now is the time to debut their enhanced auto search.

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Simply enter in the make and model and Bing autos will pull together …

By Sunshine in Bing
January 13th, 2011 at 5:12 am

Office 365 for Education pricing details announced

The pricing and plans for Office 365 for Small Businesses and Enterprises were announced back in October last year, however details about Office 365 for Education – the replacement for Live@EDU – was vague. Today Microsoft announced at BETT …

By damaster in News
January 13th, 2011 at 1:16 am

Bing promotes iPhone in latest video

So what IS up with the Bing/iPhone lovefest, anyway?  In this latest video, published today on YouTube (note: so Microsoft promotes 2 competitors with one fell swoop, nice!), this little video vignette follows an iPhone user around as he uses …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
January 12th, 2011 at 11:43 am

Chevron WP7 goes to Redmond

chevronwp7If you remember, Microsoft enthusiasts Long Zheng, Rafael Rivera, and Chris Walsh stirred up quite the hornets nest back last November when they unleashed “ChevronWP7”, a simple tool (accessed through what turned out to be “a coding error”) that …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
January 11th, 2011 at 11:34 pm

Tracking the Floods with Bing Maps

If you want to see on a map where floods have occurred in Australia, check out ninemsn. They have put up a Bing Maps user collection map mapping out where the floods have occurred.
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We’ve all seen it on …

By Sunshine in Bing
January 11th, 2011 at 11:06 am

Windows Phone 7 comes to Windows Home Server Codename “Vail” and Media Center set-top boxes

"My Server" app for Windows Home Server Codename "Vail"It seems like Microsoft’s got big plans for its Windows Phone 7 devices. The Windows Home Server team recently posted a blog post about an upcoming WP7 app called “My Server” which allows you to access your Windows Home Server …

By damaster in Mobile
January 10th, 2011 at 4:44 am