Windows Live Movie Maker receives PCMAG.COM Editors Choice

This week PCMAG.COM gave Windows Live Movie Maker Wave 4 Beta an Editors’ Choice Award.

WL Movie MakerWith Microsoft Movie Maker Wave 4 Beta, the Windows Live team has done the seemingly impossible—they’ve made video editing simple, yet powerful enough to create

By Sunshine in News
July 15th, 2010 at 12:51 pm

Bing Japan out of Beta

Bing’s Tuesday homepage was a tribute to a celebration in Japan. Japan Fireworks
It was there for a reason, as the team blog explains:

We were celebrating as Bing Japan removed its beta tag, launched a new product feature and

By Sunshine in Bing
July 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am

After a month, Hotmail continues rollout (#NoHotmailYet)

hotmailwave4Mike Shackwitz posted another update on the rollout of Hotmail Wave 4 today on Inside Windows Live, reporting that “we’re right on track with our release plan”.  Some 50 million accounts on “several different clusters” have already been upgraded, which …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
July 15th, 2010 at 7:13 am

Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 beta full installer now available [Updated]

sprite_logos_essentialsWhen Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 public beta was released less than a month ago, the download website http://explore.live.com offered only the web installer, with no full installer available. Well, the truth is, the link to the full installer is …

By damaster in News
July 14th, 2010 at 9:42 pm

Windows Phone Live companion site announced for Windows Phone 7 – replacement for Microsoft My Phone?

Windows Live MobileToday on the Windows Phone blog, Aaron Woodman, Director of the Mobile Communications Business division, made an announcement of a new companion service coming for Windows Phone 7 named Windows Phone Live. As the name suggests, this will …

By damaster in Featured Mobile
July 14th, 2010 at 3:29 pm

Bing’s Best: Japan

There’s a new Bing’s Best themepack available, Bing’s Best: Japan. This pack contains 18 images from Bing Japan.

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You can download it by clicking the image above or from the Personalization Gallery.…

By Sunshine in Bing
July 14th, 2010 at 2:47 pm

Windows Phone Developer Training Kit – Beta Refresh

The Windows Phone Developer Tools went beta, and that could only mean that there would also be a Beta Refresh of the Training Kit. You can download a local copy of the training kit, or you can go …

By Sunshine in Mobile
July 14th, 2010 at 12:06 pm

Bing: Android client coming

At a Bing Search Summit in San Francisco, Microsoft executives showed off in rapid style (with no video or pictures allowed) a bunch of stuff in the Bing pipeline, including

Microsoft is working on incorporating pictures and video into more

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
July 13th, 2010 at 8:17 pm

Microsoft announces PDC 2010: In Redmond!

At the Worldwide Developer’s Conference in Washington DC, Microsoft announced that there will indeed be a PDC (Professional Developer’s Conference) this year, and that for the first time ever, it will be held on Microsoft’s campuses in Redmond, WA, USA:…

By Kip Kniskern in Developer
July 13th, 2010 at 7:13 pm

Outlook Social Connector update: here’s the links

Last night we told you about some exciting new features coming to Outlook Social Connector, including Facebook and Windows Live Messenger providers:

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However we weren’t able to find any official word (other than the Channel 9 video) when we …

By Kip Kniskern in News
July 13th, 2010 at 5:54 pm