Hotmail: The New Busy

You may have noticed a number of ads appear recently for Hotmail, with the tagline “The New Busy”.  There’s even a website to promote the campaign, and now today the rapidly changing Windows Live Log-In page is featuring what appears …

By Kip Kniskern in News
March 22nd, 2010 at 8:03 pm

ICE now uploads to Photosynth

The latest release of Image Composite Editor (ICE) has a “Publish to Photosynth” button. That’s right, you can now upload your full-resolution panoramas to Microsoft Photosynth for easy sharing on the web. 
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Photosynth is Microsoft’s unique technology for reconstructing 3D …

By Sunshine in Bing
March 22nd, 2010 at 11:51 am

Bing updates for iPhone, broadcasters (and more to come)

Time to catch up on a couple of news items about Bing that may have slipped your attention, what with all the Wave 4 leaks and Windows Phone news.

bingiphone1 First, a new Bing for iPhone app is now available.  …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
March 22nd, 2010 at 7:10 am

Windows Live Wave 4: Mobile Experience to get themes support

Back in January, we gave you an early peek into the new Windows Live Mobile Wave 4, and earlier this month we showed you the new Windows Live Wave 4 themes in the desktop browser. In fact, in the …

By damaster in News
March 21st, 2010 at 2:58 pm

Windows Live Wave 4: Web Messenger

We started off a few months ago showing you what the new Windows Live Wave 4 web services header will look like, and we told you that every Windows Live web page will have Web Messenger incorporated into its …

By damaster in News
March 20th, 2010 at 2:31 pm

Windows Live Wave 4: Photo Gallery with Facial Recognition and Photo Fuse!

Last month we gave you a glimpse of what’s to come for Windows Live Photo Gallery Wave 4. Having the chance to actually play with an early build of Photo Gallery today, we’ve discovered two brand new features that we …

By damaster in News
March 20th, 2010 at 1:47 pm

Windows Live Wave 4: Messenger Companion

Many of you might’ve realised that an old Milestone 2 build of Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 has been leaked to the web (we heard that development is currently at Milestone 3). From the screenshots leaked, you might’ve …

By damaster in News
March 20th, 2010 at 8:41 am

Back from Mix, now where’s Wave 4?

Mix 10 was a significant conference for Microsoft, and even though there wasn’t any Windows Live news (even in the hallways, where the only response to our questions of when was “soon”), both Windows Phone 7 Series and Internet Explorer …

By Kip Kniskern in News
March 18th, 2010 at 8:54 pm

Videos of MIX10 Windows Phone sessions

All the MIX10 keynote & session videos are now available at http://live.visitmix.com/videos. Each session will eventually be offered as a high-quality WMV, a regular quality WMV, and as a MP4 file for mobile devices. For most sessions, the PowerPoint …

By Sunshine in Mobile
March 18th, 2010 at 3:59 pm

Bing iPhone App removed from International App Stores

The Bing iPhone App apparently was never meant to be available outside of the United States and is now removed from all App stores besides US. A Microsoft spokesperson told Neowin the following:

"When we released the iPhone application we

By Sunshine in Bing
March 18th, 2010 at 3:07 pm