TechCrunch interviews IE9 GM Dean Hachamovitch–Neowin tells all

We’re about to head out for the IE9 Beta launch, but just to whet your appetite TechCrunch has posted a short interview with Dean Hachamovitch, where he talks about some of the new features of IE9, specifically the ability …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 15th, 2010 at 4:42 pm

IE9 Beta launch today: Tune in!

Today is the day! Today IE9 Beta will be launched, and there are two ways for you to tune in:

1. Tune in to the web cast at 10:30 am PST to learn more about what’s next with IE9 beta, …

By Sunshine in News
September 15th, 2010 at 11:51 am

IE9 Beta launch: is your mind melting?

Back at the hotel after a full day of IE9 goodness, hope you all have had a chance to download and install the bits on your Vista or Windows 7 machines.  Long Zheng has a nice slideshow up to complement …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 15th, 2010 at 6:17 am

Windows Live Messenger for iOS gets an upgrade – now with Facebook Chat and more!

Facebook Chat support in Messenger for iOSFollowing the release of Windows Live Messenger for iOS back in June, three months later and Microsoft had just announced on the Inside Windows Live team blog the first upgrade to Windows Live Messenger for iOS app – version …

By damaster in News
September 14th, 2010 at 12:15 pm

Windows Live Messenger iPhone App updated

The Windows Live Messenger iPhone App has been updated. Since launch, the Messenger app has reached #1 in the iTunes app marketplace at some point in time in over 50 countries, and has had nearly 7 million downloads worldwide. …

By Sunshine in News
September 14th, 2010 at 11:59 am

New LifeCam Studio: 1080p; optimized for Windows Live 2011

lifecamstudioWith at least an RC for Windows Live Essentials 2011 rumored to be coming at any time, Microsoft is adding some pretty cool new hardware optimized for Windows Live 2011: the LifeCam Studio.  In a press release issued

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 13th, 2010 at 10:56 pm

IE9 Beta launch: are you excited?

On Wednesday (11am PDT GMT-7)we’ll be in San Francisco for “Beauty of the Web”, the beta launch of Internet Explorer 9.  IE9 promises to bring modern standards compliant browsing to a Microsoft browser for the first time, in addition to …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 13th, 2010 at 9:31 pm

MSN Launches Interactive Guide to the Battle of Britain

Today MSN launched the Interactive Guide to the Battle of Britain. The application was build by Microsoft-partner Shoothill and has 3 major components:

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1. Photo and Document Archive
A DeepZoom Composition with historic documents and photos

2. TimeMap
Shows …

By Sunshine in Bing
September 13th, 2010 at 2:55 pm

Windows Phone Live: Overview of the upcoming “Find My Phone” feature

Back in July 2010, Microsoft announced that a new and free companion service – Windows Phone Live, will be available to all Windows Phone 7 customers. Soon after, showed you one of the first screenshots of this new service,  …

By damaster in Mobile
September 11th, 2010 at 12:17 pm