Video: Windows Phone 7 versus Windows Mobile 6.5.5

We’ve already shown you 3 comparison videos (Windows Phone 7 vs iPhone 4 and Android) in a previous article, but today another interesting one turned up that we didn’t want to hold back from you. Here it is, a …

By Sunshine in Mobile
September 24th, 2010 at 6:32 am

Yes VB Developers, you may develop apps for Windows Phone 7

The biggest wish/request from the WP7 Dev Community for Windows Phone 7 Tools and platform has been granted:

You can now download the Visual Basic CTP for Windows Phone Developer Tools. Provided in this download are all the templates,

By Sunshine in Mobile
September 23rd, 2010 at 8:56 pm

Office Web Apps: 20 million strong, now with new features

Office Web Apps, only a little more than 100 days old, already has had 20 million users view, edit, and share Office documents on the web.

Today they’re releasing a number of new features, including embedded Excel and PowerPoint docs, …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 23rd, 2010 at 6:50 pm

More Hotmail updates coming up!

The still fairly new Hotmail has gotten a string of smaller updates. Some were planned, like push email, calendar, and contacts through Exchange ActiveSync, but others were the results of feedback received and acted on during the rollout: right-click …

By Sunshine in News
September 23rd, 2010 at 6:37 pm

Bing Rewards launches as US preview

Out of the ashes of Bing cashback rises Bing Rewards, a new program launched today in the US that offers up merchandise rewards or a chance to donate credits to education charities for using the Bing Bar:

Once you

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
September 22nd, 2010 at 6:06 pm

Hotmail Calendar: now live with weather

Or at least it is here.  We told you this weekend about a new feature (and a name change) for Windows Live/Hotmail Calendar, and it looks like the weather bits are live:

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The Hotmail Calendar now features a 5 day …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 22nd, 2010 at 5:22 am

Rumors are flying! WLE 2011 release (RC?, Final?) Sept. 30?

We know that at some point a new version of Windows Live Essentials is coming.  For one thing, it’s in beta, and fortunately for us Windows Live applies the beta tag a bit more judiciously than some other services *cough* …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
September 21st, 2010 at 9:44 pm

Windows Live Alerts to shut down September 30

AlertsWell this is kind of sad.  A notice on Alerts.Live.com today is announcing that Windows Live Alerts will shut down:

Thank-you for your interest in Windows Live Alerts. After much consideration we have decided to discontinue this service as part

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 21st, 2010 at 8:31 pm

The IE9 early returns are in: 2 million downloads in 2 days

The first download numbers for IE9 are in, and according to the Exploring IE blog, over 2 million people worldwide downloaded the IE9 beta.  The blog post compares that with the launch of IE8, where it took 5 days …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 21st, 2010 at 7:37 am

Bing Social now with recommendations!

Twitter follow recommendations that is. The team calls this People Recommendation:

With Twitter growing to more than 145 million accounts, finding interesting people to follow can be difficult. People Recommendation on Bing Social helps you discover interesting and relevant

By Sunshine in Bing
September 20th, 2010 at 11:12 pm