Now Windows phone 7 RTMed and the launch isn’t that far away anymore, let’s have a look again at what we can expect. And by look, I do mean look. I’ve gathered some videos* for you to look at.…
The history of Windows Live Mesh
You might’ve heard that Microsoft recently decided to rebrand Windows Live Sync to Windows Live Mesh. But what was the story behind this great file synchronisation tool? We’ll give you a brief summary of the history behind Windows Live …
Windows Phone 7 RTMs
As of today, operating system for Windows Phone 7 is complete, and released to manufacturing. Terry Myerson made the announcement today in a blog post:
…Today is the day that the Windows Phone team has been driving towards, and we’re
Double Rainbows with Photo Stitch “What does it mean?”
Sometimes we focus so much on all the latest upcoming news that we forget to talk about some of the cool existing features in Windows Live. Windows Live Photo Gallery does some pretty amazing stuff, from simple photo fixing, to …
“Windows Live ActiveSync” update: No HTML mail in WM 6.xx, and our own FAQ
(Hey look, more naming confusion, yay! Yesterday’s Inside Windows Live blog post didn’t mention it, but we just noticed that the “Known Issues” page refers to “Windows Live ActiveSync”, go figure. Anyway we’ll probably call it EAS for Hotmail …
Play World of Warcraft? Bing introduces “a great new weapon”
Just spotted a tweet from our friend Kristen at Bing, pointing to the latest Visual Search for Bing, this time World of Warcraft weapons:
The interactive visual search shows 3000 top WoW items, in twelve zones. Clicking on any …
Windows Phone Marketplace App Categories
Microsoft has finalized the list of categories of apps it will offer on its Windows Phone Marketplace. App categories organize applications so that users can more easily find what they are looking for.
For Windows Phone 7, there will be …
Windows Phone 7 available in Canada same time as US: WMPowerUser.com
WMPowerUser is doing a great job of covering the latest Windows Phone 7 news (we’ve got them in our Windows Phone Blogs We Like section, and hey they even have their own WP7 app!), and today they have some …
No EAS for Androi… Oh Look, Bing Mobile for Android (Verizon)! (Updated)
While official support for Exchange ActiveSync for Android phones is apparently “months” away (unofficially some Android phones, specifically 2.2, and specifically not 2.1, may work), Bing Mobile hopefully will be able to divert your attention today by announcing Bing for …
Exchange ActiveSync now available
OK it’s official, Hotmail Exchange ActiveSync is now available, according to a blog post on Inside Windows Live. The setup details are the same as we’d posted earlier, here they are:
…Server / URL
m.hotmail.com
Username
Enter full email
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