IE9 and SunSpider – the plot thickens

Last week Internet Explorer released the latest Platform Preview (#7), and boasted of some new SunSpider test results to go along, showing IE9 PP7 as the fastest browser available in terms of JavaScript, according to the SunSpider results.  Just to …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
November 22nd, 2010 at 9:58 am

Find Windows Phone 7 Apps with Visual Search [Updated]

We already told you that you can find and download iPhone apps via Visual Search. Now you can also find your Windows Phone 7 Apps the same way via the Bing Visual Search Gallery for Windows Phone 7 apps.

By Sunshine in Bing
November 19th, 2010 at 4:20 am

Another new look for Bing Maps

Bing Maps has rolled out a new look today to coincide with the “AJAX V7 Control”, eliminating the need for Silverlight to view enhanced Bird’s Eye map views.  Silverlight remains a big part of Bing Maps, powering Map Apps, …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
November 18th, 2010 at 9:06 pm

(Too much?) Information on Windows Phones and SD Cards

Samsung-Focus-openbackBy now if you’ve been following the antics of Windows Phones, you’ve heard about the intricacies of Windows Phones and SD cards, and the warnings to wait until “Windows Phone 7 compliant” cards are made available to (at …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured Mobile
November 18th, 2010 at 10:03 am

IE releases Platform Preview 7

The IE9 team has announced today that they’ve released a new Platform Preview (meaning no UI), dubbed “PP7”, on the 1 year anniversary of the first introduction of IE9 at PDC 09.  Since then, and specifically with the release of …

By Kip Kniskern in News
November 17th, 2010 at 10:03 am

Windows Live FrameIt shutting down December 15

Now that Windows Live Wave 4 has been fully rolled out, it’s quite obvious that some services never made the cut with no mention of any updates whatsoever – one of this is Windows Live FrameIt. It appears that …

By damaster in News Timeline
November 17th, 2010 at 5:03 am

Windows Phone 7 development for beginners

No knowledge of C#, Silverlight or mobile development and developing Windows Phone 7 applications sounds appealing to you? No worries, you can still learn!

Channel 9 has just started a new series that teaches beginning developers with little programming experience …

By Sunshine in Mobile
November 17th, 2010 at 4:23 am

Windows 7 + Windows Live: to the Cloud!

There’s a new Windows 7 + Windows Live website showing off Windows Live’s capabilities in the cloud.

There’s lots to explore on the site! As you can see the site is divided in 3 sections:
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By Sunshine in News
November 16th, 2010 at 6:18 am

Office Web Apps integration coming to Facebook Messages

A big announcement today over at Facebook, with news of their new Messages functionality, including the news that users of Facebook Messages will be able to view Office documents by opening them in Office Web Apps from within Facebook:…

By Kip Kniskern in News
November 15th, 2010 at 2:46 pm

Games, games, games…

Coming today to Windows Live Messenger 2011 in the US, UK, France, Canada, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, and Turkey: The Messenger Game Tab. Games Tab
The games tab UI will be localized in all of these markets, but …

By Sunshine in News
November 15th, 2010 at 7:32 am