How to quickly change your Windows Live Essentials 2011 Beta Refresh Language Setting?

Windows Live EssentialsWhen we first revealed the download links to the new Windows Live Essentials 2011 Beta Refresh, we started off by providing the English version link first. Many of you have asked for the links for the different language versions, …

By damaster in News
August 18th, 2010 at 12:11 pm

New features for the Bing Webmaster Tools

As a direct response to feedback received since last month’s launch, the Bing Webmaster Tools gained some new features.

Data Export Capability
You can now download and export data from Bing Webmaster Tools about your registered sites. You …

By Sunshine in Bing
August 18th, 2010 at 11:05 am

Microsoft Yahoo! Search Alliance transition starts: US search market share to be at 31.6%

A blog post on the adCenter Blog at Microsoft Advertising reports that the transition of organic (algorithmic, or non-paid search results) search results from the Yahoo! search engine to Bing has begun.  Once the transition is complete, according to …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
August 18th, 2010 at 8:30 am

Windows Live Essentials Beta Refresh day one recap

What a fun day!  This morning at about 7:30 am Pacific Daylight Time, ace LiveSide contributor damaster found that the download link he had been tipped to earlier was now working, and he worked feverishly to post at the same

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 18th, 2010 at 8:10 am

WL 2011 Beta Refresh “No Internet Connection” error: fixed

(via meraTechPort, thanks Vasudev!)

So you rushed to download and install Windows Live Essentials 2011 Beta Refresh, only to get to 98% installed and fail, doh.  The problem was that although the final version of WLE 2011 will support …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 18th, 2010 at 5:58 am

Facebook launches “Places” (powered by Bing Maps)

In what would seem to be a major coup, Bing Maps will be the map provider for the newly announced Facebook Places, on Facebook.com.  The location service for Facebook, which will allow you to check in and share your …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
August 18th, 2010 at 5:03 am

Windows Live Essentials Beta 2: All the good stuff (FB chat, geotag to Bing Maps, more)

Explanation:  This post was written under embargo, before the links to what was apparently the Beta Refresh became available earlier today.  According to a Microsoft spokesperson, those links point to a download that “is not the right build; the …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 17th, 2010 at 8:00 pm

Big day for Microsoft games: Microsoft Flight, Age of Empires Online; Xbox Live for Windows Phone 7 titles revealed

A couple of big announcements coming in from Gamescom 2010 in Cologne, Germany, one of which is the unveiling of the first (of many more to come, we expect) titles for Xbox Live on Windows Phone 7, Microsoft announced two …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 17th, 2010 at 3:18 pm

New SkyDrive logo confirmed – more new logos coming?

Windows Live SkyDriveLast month we revealed what was thought to be the new SkyDrive logo which quietly appeared on the Windows Live Preview promotional website. Today, the same logo appeared on Microsoft Australia’s ninemsn.com.au website, which confirms that this is …

By damaster in News
August 16th, 2010 at 12:25 pm

Bing: iPhone App Mania indeed

Last we heard the Bing for iPhone app was at about 4.3 million downloads (should be significantly more than that by now, is there a way to track iPhone app downloads?), and based on that success it looks like Bing …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
August 16th, 2010 at 7:45 am