Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 begins worldwide roll-out

Windows Live HotmailAccording to a blog post at the official Brazilian Windows blog, Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 starts rolling out today to the 47 million Hotmail users worldwide. (Thanks for the tip Anderson C.!) Here’s what the translated version of …

By damaster in Featured News
June 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am

Kinect and Windows Live Messenger: soon to be BFF?

At E3, Microsoft took the lid off the Natal project today, with a new name, “Kinect”, and some details about what to expect in the coming months.  We won’t go into all the details on the new Xbox and Kinect …

By Kip Kniskern in News
June 14th, 2010 at 4:14 am

Live Sync: life after Live Mesh

live mesh logoThe thing is, we were as invested in Live Mesh as anybody, probably more so.  We’ve been avid followers since back when it was only us and the hamsters and the gerbils.  In December of 2007 we told you to …

By Kip Kniskern in News
June 13th, 2010 at 9:56 am

Windows Phone 7 to add Flash 10.1 support?

While Microsoft had denied the fact that the v1 release of their new Windows Phone 7 operating system will support Adobe Flash, it seems like people might be up for a great surprise. Posted on an Adobe Labs website for

By damaster in Mobile
June 13th, 2010 at 9:25 am

How to Install Bing Maps App SDK with Visual Studio 2010

For those who tried installing the Bing Maps App SDK (http://connect.microsoft.com/bingmapapps) you will likely come upon the following error when running the .msi.

Even though I had Visual Studio 2010 (Premium) installed and the latest Silverlight 4.0 runtime installed, …

By Derek Chan in Developer
June 12th, 2010 at 8:49 pm

Windows Live Wave 4: Live Writer, A [Critical] Review

There has been much talk, and many screenshots of what to expect from the Wave 4 edition of Live Writer, and also what we’ve actually got, so for regular readers, none of this should come as a shock, although …

By Matthew in News
June 12th, 2010 at 4:27 pm

Tagline to be removed from Hotmail Messages

image You know those lines of text that gets added when you send messages from Hotmail? They are called taglines.

Brian Hall writes:

When Hotmail first started in the mid-90s, taglines helped people to discover our then revolutionary new

By Sunshine in News
June 11th, 2010 at 10:07 pm

Windows Live Wave 4: Live Writer – A Screenshot Fest

Windows Live Wave 4 is seemingly approaching at a rapid speed, based on the web services already making an appearance, which means soon (who knows when) the Essentials beta will begin and the public will be able to get …

By Matthew in News
June 11th, 2010 at 9:53 pm

Bing and the FIFA World Cup South Africa – Part 3

Yay, it’s here, the new World Cup map app! Chris Pendleton just posted about it on the Bing Maps Blog:

WorldCup The New World Cup map app highlights all the different countries participating in the 2010 FIFA World Cup

By Sunshine in Bing
June 11th, 2010 at 7:01 pm

Bing and the FIFA World Cup South Africa – Part 2

Following up on Part 1, we bring you Part 2 with the latest release(s) of Bing stuff for the FIFA World Cup.

There is still no sign of the earlier mentioned Map App on Bing Maps, yet TechCrunch …

By Sunshine in Bing
June 11th, 2010 at 11:34 am