Microsoft and NASA bring new Mars imagery to WorldWide Telescope

Microsoft Research and NASA are providing an entirely new experience to users of the WorldWide Telescope, which will allow visitors to interact with and explore our solar system like never before. Viewers can now take exclusive interactive tours of …

By Sunshine in Bing
July 13th, 2010 at 4:45 pm

Outlook Social Connector adds Facebook, Windows Live Messenger providers

Mashable is reporting that the Microsoft Outlook Social Connector is making some big announcements tonight, including the addition of two promised and now (apparently almost) delivered social network providers, Facebook and Windows Live Messenger (I just checked on my little …

By Kip Kniskern in News
July 13th, 2010 at 8:41 am

Bing continues to gain share (and game the system, too)

The latest comScore numbers are out, according to a post at The Silicon Alley Insider (they’ll be fully available publically in a few days), and the numbers show that Bing, and Yahoo! are continuing to make small inroads against Google:…

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
July 13th, 2010 at 7:13 am

Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta

The Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta has gone beta. This Beta release represents the near final version of the tools for building applications and games for Windows Phone 7. 

The Windows Phone engineering team has been keeping a tight schedule:…

By Sunshine in Mobile
July 12th, 2010 at 9:44 pm

Some facts about Office Web Apps on Windows Live – Co-authoring for all web apps by the end of 2010

Office Web AppsOffice Web Apps was released as final version on Windows Live SkyDrive last month, together with the launch of other Windows Live Wave 4 web services (all except Hotmail, Contacts, Alerts, FrameIt, and Admin Center). While great as it …

By damaster in News
July 11th, 2010 at 2:33 pm

Bing improves Weather

Apparently the latest in a series of improvements to Bing is Bing.com/weather, something of particular interest to those in the Eastern US right now as they suffer through a heat wave, and us here in the Pacific NW as …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
July 7th, 2010 at 6:43 pm

Wave 4: SmartScreen for URLs

Those of you who are trying out the new Windows Live Essentials Beta, probably already came across some of these:
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But what are those? Never saw those before (no difference whether you use Internet Explorer or not)! What happened? …

By Sunshine in News
July 7th, 2010 at 6:22 pm

Silverlight for Symbian RTM

Silverlight for Symbian is now generally available. This brings the Silverlight experience to the, according to the team’s blog post, 20+ million users of Nokia S60 5th edition Nokia 5800 XPressMusic and Nokia N97 devices. The Beta release

By Sunshine in Mobile
July 6th, 2010 at 7:50 pm

New SkyDrive Logo coming

imageLooks like there is a new SkyDrive logo coming. I say looks like, as the only place it is appearing now is on the the Windows Live Preview site, as noted by LiveSino.

The new logo follows the …

By Sunshine in News
July 6th, 2010 at 10:40 am

New Bing Map App: Tour De France 2010

imageAnother sporty Bing Map App got released yesterday, this time for cycling fans. Le Tour de France runs from Saturday July 3rd to Sunday July 25th 2010. The 97th Tour de France will be made up of 1 prologue and …

By Sunshine in Bing
July 2nd, 2010 at 12:25 pm