Microsoft and AT&T Windows Phone 7 Press Conference: Watch the webcast live!

On Monday, October 11, Microsoft and AT&T are holding what has been described as a “launch party” for Windows Phone 7 at an event in New York City:

On October 11, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Ralph de la Vega,

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
October 8th, 2010 at 11:07 am

Directions on Microsoft: Matt Rosoff moves on

If you’ve ever been to Microsoft, the lobby of most if not all of the buildings on campus contain some nice artwork, some comfortable chairs and couches, and a stack of copies of Directions on Microsoft.  The “independent IT …

By Kip Kniskern in News
October 7th, 2010 at 1:48 pm

Windows Live/Bing Photo Contest (US Only)

To celebrate the release of Windows Live Essentials, there’s a joined Windows Live/Bing Photo Contest to highlight Windows Live Photo Gallery.

Photo Gallery is the best place on your PC to organize, edit and share your photos and

By Sunshine in Bing
October 7th, 2010 at 5:14 am

Is Firefox adding Bing as a default search engine?

Tonight, Robert Scoble tweeted a single sourced rumor that Mozilla is announcing that Bing will be added as a default search engine in Firefox, as early as tomorrow (Wed Oct. 5).  To add some credence to the rumor, on Sept …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
October 6th, 2010 at 12:54 am

Hotmail gets the Jump List

When the IE9 beta launched last month, one of the features the IE9 team showed off was Pinned Sites and Jump Lists, using Hotmail as an example.  Only the Jump List for Hotmail wasn’t quite yet ready.

Our friend Vasudev

By Kip Kniskern in News
October 5th, 2010 at 11:17 pm

Windows 7 Family Pack makes a comeback!

So now the new Windows Live Essentials has been released, you want to give it a go. But then you realize it will only run on Vista or Windows 7 and you have….Windows XP! Now what? You can of …

By Sunshine in News
October 4th, 2010 at 5:04 am

Bing xRank is no more!

Thanks to a tip from Pradeep, Microsoft has confirmed with SearchEngineLand.com that Bing xRank has been discontinued. In fact, if you visit http://bing.com/xrank now, it will redirect to the Bing homepage. Here’s a screenshot of Bing xRank from the Wikipedia

By damaster in Bing
October 3rd, 2010 at 8:50 am

WordPress progress: 50,000 (+1, hopefully) converted

This week Joe Wilcox at BetaNews hit Techmeme with news that a mere fraction of the millions of potential Spaces migrations might actually happen, as many Spaces blogs haven’t been kept current, and Microsoft played a bit of a game …

By Kip Kniskern in News
October 2nd, 2010 at 11:33 am

Congratulations Sunshine and PicturePan2: Windows Live MVPs!

Today is an award day for the Microsoft MVP program, and we’re very proud to announce that our own Sunshine, Cornelia Koopmans, and our good friend PicturePan2, Yan Zhu from LiveSino.net, have been awarded Windows Live MVPs for …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
October 1st, 2010 at 11:44 am

Windows Live Messenger for Zune

Just released on the Zune App Marketplace: Windows Live Messenger for Zune: 
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Today a new app for Messenger, one of the most requested apps for the device, was released on the Zune marketplace. The app supports your regular Messenger …

By Sunshine in News
September 30th, 2010 at 4:49 pm