Planning a trip? Want to know some more about that city in advance? Check out Bing’s new destination pages.
The new feature assembles all the things you need to know to plan your trip, including flight information, hotels, attractions, …
Bing Visual Search gets a new (HTML5) look
Thanks to a tweet from one of our Twitter followers, we noticed today that Bing Visual Search has a new, non-Silverlight look and feel, featuring (currently) 111 Visual Search Galleries:
Included in the Featured Galleries are Bing Home Page …
A Windows Live Holiday wishlist
Next month we’ll begin our 6th year of covering Windows Live news and information. We’ve seen a lot come and go in the past 5 years (brought home by our recent move to WordPress which caused us to go back …
Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 released
Microsoft Security Essentials, released back in September 2009 as a free replacement for the subscription-based Windows Live OneCare, has been updated to version 2.0 today. The final release carries the build number 2.0.657 and includes new features such as:
- Windows
Hotmail Active Views–interactive email (for some)
While last week’s Reddit question and answer session was skewed heavily toward a desire for Microsoft to stick to standards (and leave all the social networking out), today’s announcement of Hotmail Active Views brings us another improvement to Hotmail that …
Windows Phone 7 codenamed “Mango” update to bring HTML5 and Silverlight support
Mary Jo Foley posted on ZDNet today reporting that Microsoft is currently planning a major Windows Phone 7 update codenamed “Mango”, which may be shipped as Windows Phone 7.5 (it was also reported that Windows Phone 8 is codenamed “Apollo” …
Bing inches upward (with help from Facebook?)
Bing made news today, both for its “fall update” release of new apps for iPhone and Android, partnerships with OpenTable, GrubHub, and FanSnap, and deeper collaboration with Facebook, and also for a new set of search numbers from …
Montage: Search Fun by FuseLabs!
Last week at Le Web conference, Microsoft demoed Microsoft Montage. 
Montage is a shareable, personal, visual album of the web. You are able to design your personal Montage around a topic by adding content that pulls information …
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