What features should be added to Windows Live Writer?

That’s the question Aaron Bregel is asking you:

At the end of every product cycle and after a product has been released to manufacturing or released to web the next logical step is to start to plan for the

By Sunshine in News
December 3rd, 2010 at 6:12 am

Silverlight FireStarter Event: Announcing Silverlight 5

Yesterday at the Silverlight FireStarter Event Scott Guthrie announced Silverlight 5. Not as in “It’s here now, go get it!”, but announced as in telling that a Silverlight 5 beta will be available in the first half of next …

By Sunshine in News
December 3rd, 2010 at 2:48 am

Xbox Live Rewards

Microsoft has launched a reward program for Xbox Live subscribers: Xbox Live Rewards

Players can earn reward points for tasks such as purchasing or renewing an Xbox Live Gold membership, buying Marketplace content, taking surveys and participating in Xbox promotions. …

By Sunshine in News
December 2nd, 2010 at 6:19 am

Get into shape with MSN/fitbie

MSNWhilst everybody is getting more and more into the Holiday spirit, MSN is already one step ahead. They are thinking about getting you into shape (after all those lovely Holiday meals?)! In partnership with Rodale, the authoritative source for fitness, …

By Sunshine in News
December 2nd, 2010 at 5:55 am

Windows Live Essentials 2011 QFE released: you can update now

Thanks to a tip from our friends at Wikikou.fr, we learn tonight that there’s been a QFE (Quick Fix Engineering – meaning a bug fix update, not UI changes) for almost all of Windows Live Essentials, updating most of …

By Kip Kniskern in News Timeline
December 1st, 2010 at 8:41 pm

We can has a Windows Phone 7 App

With Windows Phone 7 numbers going through the roof, and the devices being able to be very easily unlocked, we thought now was the best time ever to jump on the huge bandwagon that is Windows Phone 7 …

By ScottIsAFool in Featured Mobile News
December 1st, 2010 at 6:58 am

New Bing shopping feature: Bing Shopping List

Decisions, decisions, decisions. Lots of those have to be made when shopping, and quite often you wish you could just ask your friends and family for advice. Starting today Bing Shopping is making that easier for you to do. They …

By Sunshine in Bing
December 1st, 2010 at 4:54 am

ChevronWP7 pulled

If you didn’t download ChevronWP7 unlocking tool, you are too late now! Today the team discontinued their tool after a discussion with Brandon Watson, Director of Developer Experience for Windows Phone 7:

Through this discussion, we established a mutual

By Sunshine in Mobile
December 1st, 2010 at 4:08 am

New on (US only) Bing.com: Music/overview

Bing continues to blur those 10 blue lines, creating subsites within Bing that are more destinations than portals.  The latest is an Overview page for music artists, containing on a single page a description of the artist, a list of …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
November 29th, 2010 at 4:48 pm

Half a million former Spaces bloggers now on WordPress (plus half a million more)

Microsoft unleashed quite a bombshell last September when it announced that it would be shutting down its blogging platform, Windows Live Spaces, and making a migration to open source WordPress.com available to anyone wanting to continue their blogs.  Since then, …

By Kip Kniskern in News
November 29th, 2010 at 2:27 pm