The Bing Summer Update: new look, Entertainment focus

As it turns out, instead of flying to LA for the Bing with Ryan Seacrest show, that annoying “real life” needed a bit of tending to, and so we’re here catching up on all the news of the day coming …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
June 23rd, 2010 at 7:36 am

New Windows Live Developer Center tomorrow

It sure is going to be an exciting day tomorrow! Not only will the long awaited Wave 4 version of Windows Live Essentials go in to public beta but also set for release tomorrow is a new version of the …

By Sunshine in Developer
June 23rd, 2010 at 1:01 am

Windows Live Essentials Beta Announced

As we posted last week, the beta will indeed become public sometime tomorrow. Piero Sierra just announced it on Inside Windows Live:

Tomorrow, hot on the heels of the Hotmail roll-out, the new Windows Live Essentials becomes available

By Sunshine in Featured News
June 23rd, 2010 at 12:44 am

Windows Phone 7 Marketplace in action

Here is the full session about Windows Phone 7’s marketplace at TechED 2010. In this video you can see the Marketplace application on a real LG Panther phone, a beta version of the Trial API and more information about unlocking

By Sunshine in Mobile
June 22nd, 2010 at 12:02 pm

Windows Live Calendar Wave 4 issue fixed

Windows Live CalendarLast week we posted about Windows Live Calendar Wave 4 experiencing calendar display issues soon after the upgrade. David Dennis, Principal Lead Program Manager of Windows Live Hotmail/Calendar, has kindly commented on our blog post, as well as following up …

By damaster in Opinion
June 21st, 2010 at 12:57 pm

New in iTunes: Windows Live Messenger for iPhone now available!

WLMMicrosoft has just released version 1.01 of Windows Live Messenger for iPhone, and it’s available for download now from iTunes.  This new app brings Windows Live Messenger, Hotmail, Windows Live social networking and more to the iPhone and iPod …

By Kip Kniskern in News
June 21st, 2010 at 8:42 am

Hotmail Wave 4 rollout going….slowly??

We’ve been taking a little Twitter poll this weekend, asking our Twitter followers to reply to us @liveside with #NewHotmailHere or #NoHotmailYet, and the preliminary results aren’t too encouraging: 32 negatives with not a single positive response.

To be …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
June 21st, 2010 at 8:22 am

Windows Live Profile Wave 4: LinkedIn to become a Connected Service, and display names to go away

Windows Live ProfileToday on the Inside Windows Live team blog Omar Shahine (Principal Lead Program Manager for Windows Live) made a blog post about the new Windows Live Profile with particular emphasis to changes made to privacy control. We covered the new

By damaster in News
June 19th, 2010 at 3:53 pm

New Bing mobile site, Facebook results, and Yahoo!(?): tips from all over!

Bing is set to announce its Spring update next week at an event in Los Angeles, but we’re already getting tips from all over spotting new stuff. First up is a new mobile experience (at leas from Zune HDs, can …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
June 19th, 2010 at 7:00 am

Windows Live Essentials Beta On Thursday?

According to Francisco Martin Garcia, we’ll see the beta of Windows Live Essentials next Thursday/Friday (24/25 June). He also notes that the final is delayed by half a month.

Let’s hope he is right, we’ve waited long enough now!  …

By Sunshine in News
June 18th, 2010 at 11:40 am