Wave 4 Essentials to require Vista or Windows 7 (no XP)

LiveSino.net is at it again, this time capturing an info panel purportedly from the Windows Live Wave 4 Essentials Beta download page, revealing that the latest version of Windows Live Essentials will indeed require at least Windows Vista SP2 …

By Kip Kniskern in News
March 28th, 2010 at 6:34 am

Windows Phone Developer Documentation

WindowsPhone7 Have you been developing Windows Phone 7 apps/games yet? Or don’t you know where to start? Charlie Kindel wrote up a nice summary post to help you out.

Your first stop should be MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network for those of

By Sunshine in Mobile
March 27th, 2010 at 10:35 am

New location browser on Bing Search

Bing Search just keeps on evolving. Yesterday we told you about the Spring Updates and today we add one more update. Bing now has a new location browser for mapping out places in Bing Search reference results. Chris Pendleton gives

By Sunshine in Bing
March 26th, 2010 at 11:47 am

My Phone Updated

MyPhoneLogo_5F00_415F4F05[1] An updated version of Microsoft My Phone (v. 01.06.22718.0001) for Windows Mobile 6+ is now available for download from the site or Microsoft Download Center.

If you are already running Microsoft My Phone You will receive a notification on …

By Sunshine in Mobile
March 26th, 2010 at 10:58 am

Bing in Spring

There are going to be some changes to Bing. Today at SES New York the Bing team shared their plans to begin testing some new Bing features as they are moving into he next wave of innovation rolling out later …

By Sunshine in Bing Featured
March 25th, 2010 at 4:26 pm

Embed Bing Maps Twitter Maps: Internationalization/fixed map issue [updated]

Remember how we found there was a internationalization issue with embedding Bing Maps Twitter Maps? Users outside the US were not able to view those set to fixed. Ravi, one of the Microsoft devs who worked on this, …

By Sunshine in Bing
March 25th, 2010 at 11:39 am

Microsoft Messenger for Mac 8 beta available

A public beta of Microsoft Messenger for Mac version 8 (build #08.00.00.100305) was released a few days ago, after nearly two years between updates.  Looks like there’s still quite a ways to go, judging from the Known Issues in the …

By Kip Kniskern in News
March 24th, 2010 at 8:20 pm

Behind the scenes: Photo sharing on SkyDrive

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of photo sharing on Skydrive? Over on Inside Windows Live, Eric Doerr wrote an interesting post about it. For example did you know that they store four copies …

By Sunshine in News
March 24th, 2010 at 1:21 pm

Free Bing T-Shirt

image The Bing team and the Xbox Live team have a surprise for you! You can now dress your Xbox Live Avatar in a Bing t-shirt!

How? Head on over to Bing, make sure you have Bing set to United …

By Sunshine in Bing
March 24th, 2010 at 11:48 am

Bing & Decide Second UK advert

The second of three TV ads will air from Thursday 18th March across ITV, Channel 4, Five and their portfolio of TV services as well as Sky Media and IDS digital channels including Bravo, Dave, GOLD, Living TV and Good …

By Sunshine in Bing
March 23rd, 2010 at 4:17 pm