PDC 10 on tap

pdc10Maybe because we don’t have to travel for this one, or because we’re not expecting big Windows Live news, but this PDC has kind of snuck up on us.  Starting Thursday morning in Redmond, Microsoft will be hosting the first …

By Kip Kniskern in News
October 26th, 2010 at 10:59 pm

Microsoft Tag in Visual Search makes downloading iPhone Apps easy!

How do you find that top iPhone app you are looking for? There are over 300,000 iPhone Apps to wade through today! Fear not, Bing is making it easy on you. They’ve created the top iphone app gallery in

By Sunshine in Bing
October 26th, 2010 at 2:42 am

Is Ray Ozzie going down fighting?

Last week Steve Ballmer announced that Ray Ozzie would be stepping down from his position as Chief Software Architect at Microsoft, and today , Ozzie published a memo he wrote to “Executive Staff and direct reports”, entitled “The Dawn

By Kip Kniskern in Opinion
October 25th, 2010 at 11:37 pm

Messenger for Mac 8 out of Beta

Today Messenger for Mac 8 came out of beta! It will be available (soon) as part of the Office for Mac 2011 suite, and is also available as a free standalone download.

Messenger for Mac 8 is free and …

By Sunshine in News
October 25th, 2010 at 1:21 pm

Some details about the upcoming Hotmail full-session SSL feature

By now you should all have the latest Hotmail update announced back in September 2010. As we mentioned last week, unfortunately the long-awaited full-session SSL (or HTTPS) feature did not make the cut in this update. We know that …

By damaster in News
October 25th, 2010 at 7:04 am

Talking Windows Live with CodeCast

Ken Levy was a Visual FoxPro MVP, went to work for Microsoft where we met him, left again, and has been busy on a number of projects ever since.  One of those projects is “CodeCast”, a podcast for …

By Kip Kniskern in News
October 23rd, 2010 at 9:50 pm

Windows Phone Developer Tools updated

The Windows Phone Developer Tools just received an update.

The October 2010 Update includes:

  • Windows Phone Capability Detection Tool – Detects the phone capabilities used by your application. When you submit your application to Windows Phone Marketplace , Microsoft performs
By Sunshine in Mobile
October 22nd, 2010 at 6:54 am

Windows Phone 7 for sale (if you can find one)

Windows Phone 7 became available for sale today (Oct. 21) in Europe, Australia and elsewhere (US sales are set to begin on Nov 8), and at least some Australian consumers had a hard time finding the new phone to buy, …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
October 21st, 2010 at 10:35 pm

Windows Phone 7 Launch: Connector for Mac, Messenger, Adobe Reader, and YouTube

The first Windows Phone 7 device went on sale in New Zealand earlier today, and should now be available to customers in 10 other countries. Coinciding with the launch today is the availability of the “official” Windows Live Messenger

By damaster in Mobile
October 21st, 2010 at 5:16 am

Windows Phone 7 devices available to the public

The first Windows Phone 7 devices are in the hands of consumers now: the launch has started. New Zealand was first (hey they are ahead in time – time zones) and today people in Australia, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, …

By Sunshine in Mobile
October 21st, 2010 at 5:03 am