New Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 screenshots revealed

Hotmail LogoPicturepan2 from LiveSino.net has done it again! Last week he showed us screenshots of Office Web Apps integration within Hotmail, and this week he’s received new screenshots showing several new features of Hotmail Wave 4. Here it is:

Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4

When …

By damaster in News
April 16th, 2010 at 11:48 am

Silverlight 4 is here!

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As promised during the launch, it’s here!

Want to know which version you have installed now? You can check that at, and also install the latest from www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight.…

By Sunshine in News
April 15th, 2010 at 8:51 pm

Bing Student Earth Day Photo Contest finalists

Edit: Voting date has been extended from 4/19 to 4/20 at 12:00 p.m. PT and winners will now be announced on 4/21 at 9:00 a.m. PT.

The 12 finalists in the student Earth Day Photo Contest have been chosen out …

By Sunshine in Bing
April 15th, 2010 at 11:41 am

Bing starts rolling out Social Search

Bing has started to roll out social search to a small subset of users (US) and queries – so you may or may not see it appearing on your search results page. The team plans to make the feature available …

By Sunshine in Bing
April 14th, 2010 at 12:46 pm

A Launch without actual launch…

Yesterday was the Silverlight 4 Launch. Launch, where are the bits? I don’t see them! That’s right, there aren’t any until tomorrow, April 15th. Bit strange no, a launch without the actual product…

Anyways, nothing we can do about …

By Sunshine in News
April 14th, 2010 at 12:15 pm

VS2010 compatible Windows Phone Developer Tools coming soon!

Yesterday, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and .NET framework 4. A little warning for those of you using the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP:

If you install the retail (RTM) release of Visual Studio 2010 on the same machine

By Sunshine in Mobile
April 13th, 2010 at 12:28 pm

Windows Azure Platform available in 41 Countries

The following 20 countries will gain access to the Microsoft Windows Azure platform this week in the mentioned currencies:

  • Australia $ AUD
  • Brazil $ USD
  • Chile $ USD
  • Colombia $ USD
  • Costa Rica $ USD
  • Cyprus € EUR
  • Czech Republic
By Sunshine in News
April 13th, 2010 at 12:03 pm

Microsoft Introduces Kin Phones

Microsoft’s two Project Pink phones, formerly known only by their codenames – “turtle” and “pure” respectively, have been formally unveiled.  The
Kin One features a 5.0 megapixel camera with flash, sliding
keyboard, 2.6 inch capacitive touchscreen, and 4gb of onboard …

By Kip Kniskern in News
April 12th, 2010 at 9:47 pm

What’s New feed updates are now in Windows Live Wave 4 style

Today I was just coming across my friend’s Windows Live Profile page when I’ve noticed something different with the way the What’s New feed updates are written. After checking LiveSide’s old Wave 3 screenshots for Windows Live Profile, I …

By damaster in News
April 11th, 2010 at 10:42 am

“Pink” unveiling set for 10am pdt Monday

We’ve been hearing rumors about “Project Pink” for so long we almost can’t believe the wraps will come off in just a few hours, but as of 10am pdt (GMT –7) on Monday April 12th, Microsoft will unveil the new …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
April 11th, 2010 at 6:47 am