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 …
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:…
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:…
Some facts about Office Web Apps on Windows Live – Co-authoring for all web apps by the end of 2010
Office 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 …
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 …
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: 
But what are those? Never saw those before (no difference whether you use Internet Explorer or not)! What happened? …
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…
New SkyDrive Logo coming
Looks 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 …
New Bing Map App: Tour De France 2010
Another 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 …
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