Bing Travel goes natural, Bing Images gets Visual Search-style revamp

The Bing team posted on their blog today announcing a new feature update for Bing Travel – the addition of natural language search. When you type in a query such as “Flights from Boston to Los Angeles in June”, …

By damaster in Bing
December 14th, 2010 at 1:08 am

A (new?) home for Windows Live plugins: plugins.live.com

Good news for Windows Live users, and Windows Live plugin writers, a new page, apparently a replacement for Windows Live Gallery (gallery.live.com) has appeared, at http://plugins.live.com.  The new page will serve as a host for plugins for Windows Live …

By Kip Kniskern in News Timeline
December 13th, 2010 at 8:44 pm

Australia’s biggest telco switching email to Windows Live?

Australia’s  biggest telco is considering migrating customers of its BigPond Internet service provider division from their own in house versions of email, photos and online storage to Windows Live, according to a post on Australian tech site Delimiter.

Delimiter …

By Kip Kniskern in News
December 12th, 2010 at 9:00 pm

Two Windows Phone 7 updates coming in early 2011

Rumours around the web are saying to watch out for two of the upcoming conferences – Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, and Mobile World Congress in February – for announcements on the first and second major update to Windows …

By damaster in Featured Mobile
December 11th, 2010 at 2:29 am

Hotmail on Reddit: some brutally honest feedback

We spotted a tweet today about a Hotmail “Ask Me Anything” session today hosted on Reddit.com, and while we weren’t able to attend, it looks like our friends from Hotmail got quite a bit of attention, and some direct …

By Kip Kniskern in News
December 9th, 2010 at 9:15 pm

Windows Phone Marketplace reporting changes: will we see some actual usage numbers soon?

A post today on the Windows Phone blog makes a couple of announcements: first, that developers will now be paid their first installment in the 4th week of January, instead of sometime in February as initially announced:

We are pleased

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By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
December 9th, 2010 at 11:16 am

Bing introduces Mall Maps

Well this one is even more exclusive than the usual Bing “US only” announcement, but quite cool anyway: in a blog post today, Bing Maps has announced “Mall Maps”, which feature individual store locations inside of (mostly Washington State, …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
December 7th, 2010 at 7:37 pm

Some more on Tracking Protection

Today IE announced its Tracking Protection technology in a blog post on the IE Team blog.  Along with it came posts from MS Advertising and MS on the Issues, touting the privacy protections, opt-in model, and open specifications …

By Kip Kniskern in News
December 7th, 2010 at 7:03 pm

IE9 Tracking Protection: a built in IE9 ad blocker?

StopThis morning the IE team announced a new set of functionality to the upcoming Release Candidate of IE9, Tracking Protection and Tracking Protection Lists.  In short, Tracking Protection offers users (and very interesting that the IE team blog chose to …

By Kip Kniskern in News
December 7th, 2010 at 1:08 pm

Office Web Apps available in 15 more countries

The Office Web Apps (on Windows Live SkyDrive and Hotmail) became available in 15 new countries including China, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and Turkey.

These additions bring …

By Sunshine in News
December 7th, 2010 at 10:24 am
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